Richmond Community College Medical Assisting Hamlet, North Carolina

The Medical Assisting Program at Richmond Community College focuses on teaching a variety of skills essential for medical assistants. Students learn administrative tasks like appointment scheduling and billing, clinical skills including assisting with treatments, and laboratory skills such as medication administration. Additionally, the program covers areas like medical transcription, computer operations, and ethical/legal issues in patient care.

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Skills Taught:

• Administrative skills such as scheduling, coding, insurance processing, billing, and collections
• Clinical skills including assisting with treatments, laboratory procedures, and electrocardiography
• Laboratory skills like supervised medication administration
• Knowledge of medical transcription, computer operations, and ethical/legal issues

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Program Features:

• Graduates may qualify for the American Association of Medical Assistants’ Certification Examination
• Employment opportunities in various health care settings
• Program designed to produce competent medical assistants in cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains
• High success rate: 100% of program graduates passed the National Certification Exam in 2020.

The program length for the Medical Assisting Associate in Applied Science program at Rchmond Community College is 5 semesters or 70 semester credit hours to complete.