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Program Highlights
WUST will prepare students with courses that address theoretical approach and hands-on experiences that will allow them to demonstrate clinical skills, including patient care, laboratory procedures, venipuncture, assisting with exams, collecting specimens, administering patient medication, recording vital signs, and taking patient history.
- About the Program: The Medical Assistant students will be able to demonstrate clinical, administrative skills, including scheduling, medical office and records management.
- Name of the Certificate: Medical Assistant Certificate
- Number of Credits Required: The Medical Assistant Certificate is a 10-week accelerated program.
- Delivery Modality: Classes are delivered online and campus/Hybrid program.
Skills You Will Learn
- Providing physician support
- Taking patient history and vitals
- Scheduling
- Insurance Verification
- Preparing patients for exams
- Giving injections and phlebotomy
- Triaging
- Patient care
- Processing medication refills
- monitoring patients flow
- Patient intake
- Blood draws/venipunctures
- Explaining procedures and treatment
- Screening telephone calls
- Urinalysis
- EKG/ECG
- Filing and retrieving medical records
Career Paths & Certifications
Medical Assistant Certificate program is National Healthcareer Association (NHA) approved certificate program. NHA certifications are industry recognized credentials. NHA has awarded over 1 million certifications since 1989. NHA members have an internal job board and NHA is accepted in 50 states and abroad. Students receive a diploma completion and four certifications.
Certificates:
- CCMA - Certified Clinical Medical Assistant
- CMAA - Certified Medical Administrative Assistant
- CPT - Certified Phlebotomy Technician
- CET - Certified EKG Technician
Upon completion, graduates of Medical Assistant Certificate program could pursue entry-level mid-level career opportunities such as the following:
- Clinical Medical Assistants
- Medical Administrative Assistants
- Phlebotomists
- Traveling phlebotomists
- Plastic Surgery Industry
- Outpatient Clinics
- Diagnostic Medical Assistant
- Primary Care
- Urgent Care
- Physician Offices
- Clinics
- Related Healthcare Settings