Medical Assisting

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The Medical Assisting Certificate of Specialization is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB).

Commission on Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs
1361 Park Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
727-210-2350

Medical assistants are multi-skilled practitioners who perform a wide range of roles in physicians’ offices and other health care settings performing both administrative and clinical duties.

There are two options for preparation for this career at Olympic College The certificate Program is a 4 quarter, full-time program which begins every September and runs for a year. It requires a total of 61 credits. The program concludes with a supervised, unpaid externship in a medical office.

Prerequisites

To begin this program on a full time basis, students need:

• Accuplacer test scores for Math which place students in MATH 099 or higher.  Alternatively, successful completion of MATH 094 with a grade of 2.0 or higher.

• Accuplacer test scores for English which place students in ENGL 101.  Alternatively, successful completion of ENGL 099 with a grade of 2.0 or higher. 

Recommended

Good physical and emotional health to withstand the stresses of a fast-paced medical office environment that has many interruptions to well-planned schedules.

Updated Sept 10, 2009