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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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