Earn your Medical Assistant Certification in as little as 9 months!
Community Care College is the only Medical Assistant program in the Tulsa area accredited by ABHES.
Because of this, our residential graduates are able to sit for the Certified Medical Assistant (AAMA) Examination. The CMA is nationally recognized as the gold standard of Medical Assisting certifications and allows the recipient to work anywhere in the United States. Graduates of the ‘Hybrid: Online & On Campus’ program are eligible to sit for the Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) through the highly respected American Medical Technologists, but not the CMA.
Clinical Skills
- Vital signs
- Recording a patient history
- Assisting in physical exams
- Administering vision and auditory testing
- Performing eye and ear irrigations
- Applying a dressing or a cast
- Performing CPR and first aid
- Providing patient education
- Medication administration
Laboratory Skills
Our on-site facilities will allow you to practice:
- Phlebotomy
- ECG’s
- Bacterial culture growth and evaluation
- Pulmonary function tests
- Autoclave usage
- Assisting in minor surgical procedures
- Capillary blood collections and CLIA-waived lab tests
Concepts
Our curriculum is geared towards:
- Body systems (anatomy and pathophysiology)
- Medical terminology
- Administrative front office skills
- Scheduling appointments
- Medical records
- Diagnosis and procedural coding
- Supply inventory
- Office accounting
A Career as a Medical Assistant
Medical Assistants combine their clinical and administrative skills for careers in physician’s offices, specialty practices, urgent care clinics and other healthcare facilities. When you enter a physician’s office, the Medical Assistant is the first friendly face you see. They help the patient feel comfortable before the doctor comes in and perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
Responsibilities for Medical Assisting Professionals:
- Take the patient’s medical history and update it in the Electronic Medical Records
- Provide patient education and prepare patients for examinations
- Assist the provider during examinations
- Collect and process laboratory specimens, perform phlebotomy (draw blood)
- Perform electrocardiograms
- Remove sutures, change dressings, perform first aid
- Calculate, prepare, and administer medications as ordered by the provider
- Coordinate referrals, hospital admissions, and surgical procedures as ordered by the provider
- Create insurance claims and perform billing processes