The Medical Assisting Program equips students with essential administrative, communication, clinical, laboratory, and patient care skills needed in health care settings. The program offers job stability, cost coverage options, pathways for career advancement, various learning formats, flexible scheduling, a promising career outlook, and program benefits such as hands-on experience, job placement support, and skill development.
Skills Taught:
- Administrative Skills: Bookkeeping, scheduling, updating patient records, billing
- Communication: Interacting with patients and insurance companies
- Clinical Skills: Taking vital signs, assisting with exams, giving injections
- Laboratory Procedures: Performing various laboratory tests
- Patient Care: Welcoming and discharging patients, explaining treatments
Features Offered:
- Job Stability: High demand, low turnover, and protected industry
- Cost Coverage: Opportunities for grants, scholarships, and low debt
- Advancement: Pathways to other health care careers through expertise and knowledge
- Learning Formats: On-campus, blended, online asynchronous, and synchronous technology
- Flexible Scheduling: Small class sizes and varied course times
- Career Outlook: Growing field with diverse job opportunities
- Program Benefits: Hands-on experience, job placement support, and skill development
The Medical Assisting program at OFTC can be completed in 2-5 semesters.
Oconee Fall Line Technical College (OFTC) is a public institution located in Sandersville, Georgia, serving residents of Bleckley, Dodge, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Laurens, Telfair, Warren, Washington, Wheeler, and Wilkinson Counties.
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