The concepts, personnel, and work flow of the clinical laboratory is discussed in detail, as an example of health care application. Other topics include professional ethics regulatory agencies, legal concepts as applied to confidentiality and patients' rights, infection control, and safety. Enrollment is limited to students of the Medical laboratory, Medical Office, LPN, or Phlebotomy programs. An introduction into the medical assisting field. Students learn both clinical and communication skills that are performed in the physician's office including the care, sue and sterilization of instruments, how to obtain vital signs, and administer electrocardiograms, how to drape and position patients for examination, application of dressings and bandages, and how to assist with minor surgical procedures in the office setting.
Students perform a practicum in a physician's office or health care facility.