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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) 1 CREDIT This course covers information necessary to understand the legal and ethical standards of the medical assistant practice. Students will demonstrate a knowledge of ethical issues, contracts, health care worker liability, medical litigation, drug regulations, discrimination issues, OSHA rules, bioethical issues, medical records, acceptable fees, and laws that may affect the health care professional. Emphasis is placed upon the settings that employ medical assistants.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) 3 CREDITS This course covers information necessary to understand medical insurance form preparation as it is used in a medical clinical office. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the legal issues of insurance claims, procedural & diagnostic coding, delinquent claims, problem solving, managed care systems, proper form preparation and several major types of medical forms.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) 3 CREDITS This course is an introduction to the major areas of psychology as it relates to the health care professional. The student will demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of psychology such as interpersonal behavior, patient behavior, learning, emotional stability, personality, perception, memory, coping styles, abnormal patterns of behavior, and treatment. Emphasis is placed on the behavioral patterns of an effective health care provider.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (M)(W); Corequisite: AHP 1013 and BIO 1224 3 CREDITS The student will receive an overview of the medical assistant career. An emphasis will be placed on professionalism, history of the profession, human relations, OSHA guidelines, medical asepsis, vital signs, emergency procedures, law, ethics, communications and documentation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) (M); Corequisite: MA 1133 3 CREDITS The student will demonstrate an understanding of such skills as maintaining the examination area, performing clinical lab tests, venipuncture, microhematocrit, twelve lead electrocardiograph (ECG), drug calculation and medication administration. An emphasis is placed on the patient's physical examination and treatment procedures that are performed in a medical office setting.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) (M) 2 CREDITS The student will identify sources, schedules and classes of drugs. The student will identify and interpret actions of drugs commonly used in a physician's office, accurately calculate drug dosages, and identify appropriate administration routes. The student will learn to follow the written, verbal or standing physician's orders and properly prepare and administer medications using aseptic techniques as required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) (M) AOT 1713 3 CREDITS This course is designed to study the ethics, attitudes and responsibilities for the administrative tasks that occur in a medical office setting. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills and aptitudes for a professional medical assistant career in the administrative area.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) (M) 3 CREDITS The student will gain an understanding of the automated medical office by using a computerized medical office package. Included in this software package is billing, charge slips, scheduling, insurance form preparation and patient data storage. The student will demonstrate familiarity with methods and techniques used in literary research for medical professionals. The student will further be exposed to the basic concepts of e-mail, search engines, web page creation and internet research.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) (M); Corequisite: MA 1133; MA 1233 1 CREDIT This course is designed to build upon previous knowledge from medical assistant courses. The student will apply critical thinking skills for medical assistants to include the processes of planning, managing and delivering care to patients. During this course, the student will schedule, prepare and assist in the care of a group of virtual patients' health care needs. An emphasis will be placed on communication skills in relation to patients and their families. Further, the student will manage a simulated clinic including the patient charts, inventories, billing, scheduling, insurance form preparation, coding, and other administrative and clinical duties. A variety of teaching methods, learning activities, computer research, and practical simulations are utilized.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: (R) (W) (M), Completion of 33 credit hours in the major 6 CREDITS This course is designed to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in previous medical assistant courses to the clinical site. Externship assignments are scheduled to provide students with adjunct faculty and supervised experience in performing the skills and competencies of a medical assistant in a physician's office. Students will accept accountability and responsibility for their own behavior while in the learning environment, and will practice within the ethical and legal framework of the profession of a medical assistant.
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