AH103 Medical Assistant: Specialty
Covers specialty clinic front and back office topics for medical assisting, including how to effectively communicate with geriatric and young children in the medical setting. Students will learn about the challenges involved working with patients with varying brain capacity and function and how to best communicate treatment to them. Nutrition and its effects on patients’ brains will be discussed as well as how to integrate it into a treatment plan. This class also focuses on teaching students about the many types of specialty clinics and how they differ from each other in treatment and diagnosis. Students will also learn how to perform specialty clinical lab techniques as well as various WAIVE testing. Also introduced are 12-lead electrocardiography training and x-ray imaging as well as surgical set up and sterilization techniques. Finally, students will learn about clinic management and human resources.
- Date:
- 2016-01
- Primary Material Type:
- Assignment
- Other Material Types:
- Collection
- Institution:
- Rogue Community College
- Project Name:
- Pathways to Allied Health Professions (PATH)
- Funding Source:
- TAACCCT Round 2
Industry / Occupation
- Industry Partner:
- U.S. Department of Labor
- Industry Sector:
- Educational Services -- Educational Services -- Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)
- Occupation:
- Healthcare Support Occupations (31-0000)
Education / Instructional Information
- Instructional Program:
- Health-related Knowledge and Skills (34)
- Educational Level of Materials:
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- 1st year Community College or equivalent
- 2nd Year Community College or equivalent
- Interactivity Type:
- Active - requires user to respond to prompts, questions, etc.
- Quality of Subject Matter was assured by:
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- Consultations during development of instructional materials
- Quality of Online/Hybrid Course Design assured by:
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