Medical Assisting Certificate

Program Description

The Medical Assisting Certificate Program prepares students for employment and careers in health care industries, such as physician’s offices, outpatient clinics, in-patient administration, government, and health insurance industries. The curriculum is designed to provide didactic, laboratory, and externship learning experiences where students develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform medical billing and coding, patient scheduling, data entry into the electronic medical record, electrocardiogram and cardiology diagnostic testing, phlebotomy procedures, basic laboratory tests, and maintain overall daily operations in a clinical setting.  Medical assistants are the only multi-skilled allied health professional trained to work in ambulatory settings.

Our primary goal is to prepare competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains (MAERB, 2019).

All of the courses in this certificate program can be applied to the Medical Assisting A.A.S. program.

The Prince George’s Community College Medical Assisting Certificate Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB).

CAAHEP 9355  
113th St. N. #7709  
Seminole, FL 33775  
727-210-2350 

Program Outcomes

Graduates of the Medical Assisting Certificate Program will be able to:

1. Demonstrate professional and therapeutic communication skills. 
2. Utilize medical terminology as related to body functions. 
3. Perform administrative functions in an outpatient setting. 
4. Perform clinical functions/procedures in the outpatient setting. 
5. Describe the implications of health law in the clinical setting. 
6. Demonstrate the standards of care for the medical assisting profession.

Required Courses (in expected order)

• MAS-1100 Systems Terminology Credits: 3 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-1050 Law and Ethics for Allied Health Credits: 3 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-1060 Introduction to Computerized Medical Practice Credits: 3 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2010 Administrative Medical Assisting I Credits: 3 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2110 Administrative Medical Assisting II Credits: 4 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2300 Pharmacology for Allied Health Credits: 4 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2020 Clinical Procedures I Credits: 4 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2050 Clinical Procedures II Credits: 4 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2070 Clinical Procedures III Credits: 4 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2040 Professional Seminar Credits: 1 (Program Requirement)
• MAS-2060 Medical Assisting Practicum Credits: 3 (Program Requirement)

Program Total: 36 Credits