Course Description
31-509-310 MEDICAL ASSISTANT PRACTICUM ...requires medical assistant students to integrate and apply knowledge and skills from all previous medical assistant courses in actual ambulatory health care settings. Learners perform medical assistant administrative, clinical, and laboratory duties under the supervision of trained mentors to effectively transition to the role of a medical assistant. This is a supervised clinical experience. CAAHEP required practicum. (Prerequisite: 31-509-305 Medical Asst Lab Procedures 2; 31-509-306 Medical Asst Clin Procedures 2)
Course Typically Offered
Most NWTC classes are offered in 8-week sessions. Learn more about how our class schedule can help you succeed.
What will I learn?
- Perform administrative procedures
- Process insurance claims
- Monitor medical practice finance procedures
- Apply principles of medical asepsis and infection control
- Perform specimen collection
- Perform diagnostic testing
- Provide patient care
- Communicate effectively in a health care setting
- Apply legal and ethical concepts
- Instruct patients
- Perform medical office operational functions
- Demonstrate professionalism in a health care setting
Class list
3 classes found
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Class Number: MEDASST 31509310-1 - Medical Assistant Practicum
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Class Number: MEDASST 31509310-2 - Medical Assistant Practicum
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Class Number: MEDASST 31509310-3 - Medical Assistant Practicum