Medical Assistant

The Medical Assistant program is designed to provide students with the necessary job skills and related technical information to work as an assistant in a medical facility. Students will learn to perform clerical functions such as: scheduling and receiving patients, obtaining and maintaining patient data, completing insurance forms, medical transcription, telephone etiquette, arranging for hospital admission and laboratory services, billing, collection, and bookkeeping. Students will also learn the correct format for typing and keyboarding of letters, reports and manuscripts.

The clinical functions students will learn to perform include: taking and recording vital signs and patient histories, performing height and weight measurements for infants through adults, screen visual acuity and color vision acuity, assisting with examinations, treatments and office surgery, collecting of specimens through venipuncture, performing simple lab tests and electrocardiograms. Students will also learn about sterilization procedures, instruments and equipment, disposal procedures for contaminated supplies, patient preparation procedures for X-ray and laboratory examination, drawing of blood, removing of sutures, and how to perform basic first aid and CPR procedures.

Accreditation:

The Northwest Kansas Technical College Medical Assisting program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Curriculum Review Board of the American Association of Medical Assistants Endowment (AAMA). The written certification test is offered to every graduate. Test site is on campus at nwktc.