The Medical Assisting curriculum prepares multi-skilled health care professionals qualified to perform administrative, clinical, and laboratory procedures. Course work includes instruction in scheduling appointments, coding and processing insurance accounts, billing, collections, computer operations, assisting with examinations/treatments, performing routine laboratory procedures, electrocardiography, supervised medication administration; and ethical/legal issues associated with patient care. Employment opportunities include physicians’ offices, health maintenance organizations, health departments, and hospitals.
The MCC Medical Assisting Degree Program 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 (MEARB). Graduates of a CAAHEP accredited medical assisting program is eligible to sit for the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) certification to become a Certified Medical Assistants.
Montgomery Community College is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commissions on Colleges to award associate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500
Minimum Expectations
“To prepare competent entry level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.”
The Montgomery Community College Medical Assisting AAS Program, Troy, NC is accredited by The Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB).*
•Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
9355-113th St. N #7709
Seminole, Florida 337775
(727) 210-2350
www.caahep.org
•American Association of Medical Assisting Endowment
20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1575
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(312) 899-1500
(www.aama-ntl.org)/(www.maerb.org)