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Program Coordinator Program Length Degree

Campus

Carol Hartig
(712) 580-8635
chartig@iowalakes.edu

47 Credits

Diploma

Spencer

 

 

The Medical Assistant 1-year degree program orients students to become multi-skilled trained professionals.

Special features of the program include:
Laboratory skills

venipuncture, process routine lab tests in a medical clinic, throat cultures, electrocardiograms, & etc.

Clinical Assisting
medication administration, assisting physicians with patient examinations and minor surgery procedures, and learning casting applications and removal and etc.

Administration
reception/appointment skills, insurance coding, computer skills, medical transcription and etc.
 

The Iowa Lakes Community College Diploma Program, Spencer Campus, is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org).

Upon the recommendation of the Curriculum Review Board of the American Association Medical Assistants' Endowment (AAMAE).
Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
1361 Park Street
Clearwater, FL.  33756
727-210-2350

Students learn to take blood pressures
 
Program Schedule
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Freshman Fall Semester 
ADM-106 Intro to Keyboarding or 2
ADM-116 Keyboarding II (3 cr.)  
BIO-163 Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology 4
HSC-114 Medical Terminology 3
MAP-111 Medial Office Management I 3
MAP-128 Automated Medical Office 2
MAP-233 Medical Lab Procedures 4
MAP-342 Clinical Assisting I 3
SDV-090 College 101 0
Total Credits - Fall Freshman 21
   
Freshman Spring Semester 
CSC-110 Introduction to Computers 3
HSC-217  Introduction to Pathology 3
MAP-117 Medical Office Management II 3
MAP-330 Career Prep Medical Assistant 1
MAP-343 Clinical Assisting II 3
MAP-402 Medical Law & Ethics 2
MAP-453 Medical Assisting Mental Health 2
MAP-515 Pharmacology 3
Total Credits - Spring Freshman 20
   
Sophomore Fall Semester 
ENG-105 Composition I 3
MAP-941 Practicum 3
Total Credits - Fall Sophomore 6
   
Core Requirement 
Concentration Area Requirement
General Education Requirement
Elective
   
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