Medical Assisting (MA)
3 Units (LEC 48-54)
This course examines how laws and ethical principles shape healthcare practice, medical offices, and patient care. Students analyze legal doctrines, including patient rights, negligence, malpractice, informed consent, and liability, as well as ethical issues such as confidentiality, end-of-life decision-making, and the impact of emerging technologies. Emphasis is placed on the responsibilities of the medical assistant as a member of the allied health team in ensuring legal compliance and ethical professionalism.
Transfers to CSU only
3 Units (LEC 48-54)
This course prepares students for employment in solo-practitioner, multi-physician, outpatient clinics, managed care facilities, and other medical offices. Students learn to perform administrative medical assisting functions, including scheduling patient appointments, maintaining medical records, basic procedural and diagnostic coding, processing insurance, and teamwork within the healthcare environment.
Not transferable
4 Units (LAB 48-54, LEC 48-54)
This course prepares students for employment in solo-practitioner, multi-physician, outpatient, and specialty medical offices. Training emphasizes clinical medical assisting functions, including taking patient histories, recording vital signs, preparing patients for examination, assisting with routine and specialty physical exams and minor surgery, performing basic laboratory tests, collecting and preparing specimens, authorizing prescription refills as directed, administering medications, performing electrocardiograms, documenting patient complaints, and providing CPR and first aid.
Not transferable
3 Units (LEC 48-54)
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop accurate, timely charting of patient encounter, including but not limited to patient history, physical exams, diagnostic and laboratory tests results, procedures and diagnosis codes.
Prerequisite: AH-105 (with a grade of C or better)
Not transferable
4 Units (LAB 48-54, LEC 48-54)
This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to perform procedural and diagnostic coding and prepares the student to take the Certified Billing and Coding Specialists (CBCS) exam offered by the National Healthcareer Association (NHA). Students learn the fundamentals of medical billing and coding, major private and public insurance plans and electronic claims processing.
Not transferable
3.5 Units (LEC 56-63)
This course provides the academic knowledge and competency skills that medical assistants need to accurately and safely administer medication to patients in a clinical setting. Course content includes dosage calculation, drug sources, legislation, drug classification and action, parenteral and non-parenteral drug administration and the effect of medications on body systems.
Recommended Preparation: BIOL-100, AH-105
Not transferable