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Medical Administrative Assistant - Certificate
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Admission Type:
General College Admission
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This certificate program provides training in medical office skills with a special emphasis on medical applications. Graduates gain an understanding of medical office processes and terminology, in addition to keyboarding, word processing, basic insurance coding, and billing.
For more information, contact:
Lydia Tisdale - (843) 349-5275
Career Outlook
Graduates of the Medical Administrative Assistant program can find employment in the following fields:
- Physicians' offices
- Clinics
- Public health agencies
- Hospitals
- Health insurance offices.
For more information about careers, visit O*Net Online for an overview of South Carolina and National earnings statistics, and Horry Georgetown
Technical College's Career Resource Center for more employment, career, and professional development resources.
For more information about gainful employment, visit: https://www.hgtc.edu/righttoknow.
Students may be required to pass a Criminal Background Check for certain medical office activities.
Curriculum Sequence |
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| First Semester - Fall | ||
| AOT 105 | Keyboarding | 3 |
| AOT 134 | Office Communications | 3 |
| AOT 165 | Information Processing Software | 3 |
| AOT 239 | Computerized Office Accounting | 3 |
| or | ||
| ACC 101 | Accounting Principles I | |
| HIM 103 | Introduction to Health Information Coding | 3 |
| TOTAL | 15 | |
| Second Semester - Spring | ||
| AOT 110 | Document Formatting | 3 |
| AHS 102 | Medical Terminology | 3 |
| or | ||
| AOT 234 | Administration Office Communications | |
| ENG 155 | Communications I | 3 |
| HIM 105 | Medical Office Communication Practice | 3 |
| TOTAL | 12 | |
| Third Semester - Summer | ||
| AOT 180 | Customer Service | 3 |
| AOT 210 | Document Production | 3 |
| AOT 261 | Office Spreadsheet Applications | 3 |
| HIM 266 | Computers in Healthcare | 3 |
| TOTAL | 12 | |
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Total Credit Hours |
39 |
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