MA 1012 - Administrative Medical Assistant Lab

Credits: 2
The administrative Medical Assistant Lab course provides practice and application of skills and information learned in the corresponding course, MA 1015. Assignments help students to demonstrate the office administration skills including office and patient scheduling, medical records functions, simple billing and coding, and communication with the patient for medical history, test and procedure scheduling and follow-up planning. Along with lab experience, the student is assigned to a preceptor in an actual health care setting to apply the same skills in a real-world setting. Laboratory 4 hours per week. Corequisite(s): MA 1015