The Legal Executive Assistant program runs nine months during the day. The Medical Executive Assistant Program is a certificate program designed to prepare students for one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. The 1991 Occupational Outlook Handbook showed the Medical Secretary as one of the top ten careers with a 68.3 percent increase in job openings between the years 1990 and 2005. This challenging program pairs time-honored Gibbs training in essential business and professional skills with courses that incorporate current technology for managing a medical office by demonstrating how traditional tasks are accomplished through the actual automation of a medical office. Medical terminology and production of medical reports, such as history and physical examinations, radiology reports, and discharge summaries are included.
Students practice medical machine transcription and processing claims by hand and electronically.
The Medical Executive Assistant Program runs nine months during the day. In this program, students can develop skills to make decisions, to communicate effectively, to perform successfully as part of a team, to use business applications software, to manipulate and integrate information, and to solve information management problems. In addition, this program provides hands-on experience on the latest hardware and software found in the most modern of office settings. This program can be completed in 12 months in the evening. The Legal Administrative Assistant Program is a certificate program designed to prepare students for rewarding and challenging positions as legal secretaries.