There is a growing need for trained office professionals. Northampton s Office Administration degree programs are designed to prepare you for a wide variety of opportunities in a modern office setting. The three degrees offered by the Office Administration department are Office Administrative Assistant, Medical Administrative Assistant, and Legal Administrative Assistant. Each program provides course offerings and experiences 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, and these skills will be applied through a valuable internship experience related to your field of study.
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 the vast professional medical field. Students gain proficiency in technology, communication, 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 healthcare 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.