1914 Wibble Rd, Bakersfield, CA, 93304

Medical Assistant – Diploma

This program offers professional, comprehensive medical assistant courses that include hands on training in administrative and clinical responsibilities, taught by faculty members, experienced in the particular field.

Medical/Clinical Training

This program offer medical and clinical courses that will train you to assist a supervising physician with the following:

• Assisting with medical examinations
• Aiding in minor surgical procedures
• Administering injections
• Performing EKG’s, venipuncture and routine lab and diagnostic tests
• Preparation of examination room and equipment
• Recording vital signs

Much of this training will take part in labs that are designed to look and feel like real working medical offices with examination tables, minor surgical instruments, lab testing machines etc..

Medical Office Training

The medical assistant program also provides instruction in administration and computer skills that will complement your medical knowledge. This course will also cover the following

• Word processing
• Patient data documentation and maintenance
• Basic accounting procedures
• Insurance claims filing
• Medical coding, billing and maintaining medical records
• Medical information transcription and correspondence preparations

Upon completion of this program, students may seek entry level employment in one of the following fileds,

• Medical Assistant
• Clinical lab aide
• Hospital donor unit assistant
• Blood Bank donor assistant
• front office assistant manager
• Back office lab assistant

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