There is a growing need for trained office professionals. Northampton s Office Administration diploma programs are short-term programs designed to prepare you to enter a modern office setting. The diplomas offered by the Office Administration department offers career-specific course work for the student wishing to matriculate within two semesters. Each program provides course offerings to prepare the graduate to work as a team player in a specialized office environment. You will learn the marketable skills required to work accurately and effectively with other people in an office environment.
Emphasis is placed on development of professional attitudes, values, and ethics.
This program prepares you to accept the responsibilities and challenges expected of a skilled administrative assistant in a medical work environment. Students gain proficiency in technology, human relations, time management and organizational skills, decision making, and creative thinking. Technology training emphasizes medical, word processing, spreadsheet, database, graphics, and communications software applications. You will become an accurate, resourceful, and productive professional with the skills necessary to be able to comfortably communicate with other medical professionals in a medical environment. Beginning with medical terminology, the training includes development of the special administrative skills needed for front office, medical transcription, health services coding, and insurance responsibilities required in the most demanding, fast-paced medical settings.