Learn skills that enable you to assist doctors in the proper and efficient management of their offices, as well as prepare yourself to work in a hospital setting. Students who successfully complete the evening track of Medical Assistant classes will be eligible to take the Medical Assistant Certification exam. This class aids students in mastering the language of medicine. Each lesson acquaints students with the terms related to each body system as well as the abbreviations utilized in the medical language. This class covers the human body in health and disease.
Students learn the basic body structure, diseases and each body system.
This class provides a refresher in sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation and spelling. Develop knowledge and skills in diagnostic and procedural coding and insurance claims completion for a variety of health care insurance programs. Students learn to code physician office services utilizing current coding references, coding rules and their proper application. Students also learn to code only what is documented as well as proper matching of diagnosis codes with procedure codes. In addition to billing and coding, terminology, anatomy and physiology will be covered at an introductory level.