Medical Assistant. Diploma in Medical Assistant Clock Hours 24 Semester Credit Units

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Diploma in Medical Assistant

720 Clock Hours

24 Semester Credit Units

(DOT:079.367-010)

2013-14

Richfield University Tel: +1 (818) 888-6773

7028 Owensmouth Avenue Fax: +1 (866) 554-5636

Canoga Park, CA 91303 E-Mail: information@richfielduniversity.

us

United States of America Web: http://www.richfielduniversity.us/

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Program Objectives

The main objective of this program is to secure entry-level employment as a Medical Assistant. Students will graduate with front and back office skills. The administrative skills include medical insurance, coding, and billing; phones and scheduling; word processing; and medical office procedures. Students acquire clinical skills such as performing vital signs, injections, EKGs, first aid and CPR, urinalysis, laboratory procedures, and phlebotomy. Students will also train to assist physicians in minor surgeries and to prepare the patient for physical examinations.

Career Opportunities

The students who successfully complete the program will be qualified work as Medical Assistant in a variety of healthcare facilities performing front and back office tasks.

Program Requirements

In order to successfully complete and earn the College Diploma in Medical Assistant, all the following criteria and requirements must be met prior to the graduation:

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Completionofeachcoursewithaminimumof70%(C)orhigher.

2. Completion of all the required courses with a grade points average (GPA) of 70% (C)

or

Higher accordingtothelistofcoursesinthetablehereunder.

3. Paymentofalltuitionandfeesfortheprogram.

Tests and Internship Requirements

The program has specific internship requirements. The courses require continuous assessment and examination. The specific examination and assessment requirements are included in the course syllabus for each course.

Program Outline

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Total

Clock

Hours

Seme

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Credit

Units

MA-100 Introduction to Medical Assisting, Patient Care and Communication 60 6 0 120 4.0 MA-200 Administrative Assisting and Medical Insurance 60 6 0 120 4.0 MA-300 Pharmacology 60 60 120 4.0 MA-400 Clinical Assisting I 60 60 120 4.0

MA-500 Human Anatomy Body 60 60 120 4.0

MA-600 Clinical Assisting II 60 60 120 4.0

TOTAL 360 3

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Description of all courses:-

MA-100 Introduction to Medical Assisting, Patient Care and Communication:

The practices are organized around those aspects of the patient experience prioritized by patients themselves, as indicated by focus group data collected and analyzed by Plane tree. The programs, policies and practices spotlighted in the pages that follow have been selected because they have effectively responded to expressed patient needs and preferences.

Learning Outcomes

1. This course teaches professionals on how to instruct patients about medications and special diets, prepare and administer medications as directed, authorize drug refills as directed, telephone prescriptions to a pharmacy, draw blood, prepare patients for X-rays.

2.

The professionals become specialists to collect and prepare laboratory specimens or perform basic laboratory tests on the premises, dispose of contaminated supplies, and sterilize medical instruments

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Reference Books

 Clinical Medical Assisting By Jennifer L. Gibson, Brinda Shah, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2014.

 Delmar's Comprehensive Medical Assisting By Wilburta Lindh, Marilyn Pooler, Carol Tamparo, Barbara Dahl, Julie Morris, Cengage Learning, 2014.

 Administrative Medical Assisting By Linda French, Marilyn Fordney, Cengage Learning, 2013.

MA-200 Administrative Assisting and Medical Insurance:

Young adults can now stay on a parent’s insurance plan until age 26. Under health care reform, most insurance plans that offer dependent coverage must make that coverage available to children and young adults up to age 26. This applies to all plans sold on the individual market, including family coverage available through the new online health insurance marketplace (i.e., exchange), and most employer-sponsored plans. Entry-level competency in the performance of administrative duties.

Learning Outcomes

 Entry-level competency in the performance of clinical duties.

 Application of legal concepts to health care practice.

 Provision of patient instruction.

 Participation in operational functions.

 Participation in a national certification examination and activities associated with active membership.

Reference Books

 Medical Assisting Administrative and Clinical Competencies By Michelle Blesi, Barbara Wise, Cathy Kelley-Arney, Cengage Learning, 2012.

 Administrative Medical Assisting: Instructor's Manual, Marilyn Takahashi Fordney, Joan J. Follis, Cengage Delmar Learning, 1998.

 The Theory of Demand for Health Insurance By John A. Nyman, Stanford University Press, 2003.

MA-300 Pharmacology:

Pharmacology is a medical science that forms a backbone of the medical profession as drugs form the corner stone of therapy in human diseases. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to describe the

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pharmacological basis of therapeutics in order to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks of drugs to recipients.

Learning Outcomes

1. Training of health professionals in the rational use of drugs.

2. This training teaches professionals undertake clinical research related to all aspects of the science of therapeutics: the effectiveness and safety of registered drugs, drug utilisation, and the development of new drugs.

3. Professionals finished their training can serve as consultants in healthcare facilities as part of a multidisciplinary team including management personnel, clinicians, pharmacists, nurses etc.

Reference Books

 Pharmacology edited by Michelle A. Clark, Richard A. Harvey, Richard Finkel, Jose A. Rey, Karen Whalen, Wolters Kluwer Health, 2012.

 Pharmacology: Principles and Practice By Miles Hacker, William S. Messer II, Kenneth A. Bachmann, Academic Press, 2009.

 Modern Pharmacology with Clinical Applications edited by Charles R. Craig, Robert E. Stitzel, Wolters Kluwer Health, 2004.

MA-400 Clinical Assisting I

The Clinical Medical Assisting program is designed to prepare students to function as professionals in multiple healthcare settings. Medical assistants with a clinical background perform various clinical tasks including assisting with the administration of medications and with minor procedures, performing an EKG electrocardiogram, obtaining laboratory specimens for testing, educating patients, and other related tasks. Job opportunities are prevalent with physician’s offices, clinics, chiropractor’s offices, hospitals and outpatient facilities.

Learning Outcomes

 In this, the student gets a proper training of following standard operating procedures to collect and prepare specimens and who performs appropriate laboratory tests. Clinical assistants complete a post-secondary clinical assistant program.

 He gets a proper training to work along with a doctor assisting him in labs and also communication with patients.

Reference Books

 Clinical Medical Assisting: A Professional, Field Smart Approach to the Workplace By Michelle Heller, Lynette Veach, Cengage Learning, 2009.

MA-500 Human Body Anatomy:

Are you ready to be astounded? You had better get ready! In this course, you are going to learn about the human body. As you learn more and more about the structures in the body and how they work, you will become more and more amazed at the mighty power of God! The human body is the Lord’s ultimate design achievement. Indeed, the organic machine which we call the human body makes all of humanity’s technological wonders simply pale in comparison.

Learning Outcomes

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 Recognize and explain the principle of homeostasis and the use of feedback loops to control physiological systems in the human body.

 Use anatomical knowledge to predict physiological consequences, and use knowledge of function to predict the features of anatomical structures.

Reference Books

 Anatomy and Physiology: Understanding the Human Body By Robert K. Clark, Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005.

 Anatomy of the Human Body By Henry Gray, Lea & Febiger, 1959.

 Human Body Anatomy By Knowledge flow.

MA-600 Clinical Assisting ll

This program prepares medical assistant student to assist physicians with a variety of clinical procedures, including administering medication, recording vital signs, processing blood specimens, obtaining case histories, sterilizing medical instruments and performing basic laboratory tests. Upon successful completion of the Clinical Medical Assistant program you will have the skill necessary to gain employment in a number of capacities. Students may seek positions immediately in public, private and government centers that administer health care to the public.

Learning Outcomes

 In this, the student gets a proper training of following standard operating procedures to collect and prepare specimens and who performs appropriate laboratory tests. Clinical assistants complete a post-secondary clinical assistant program.

 He gets a proper training to work along with a doctor assisting him in labs and also communication with patients.

Reference Books

 Clinical Medical Assisting: A Professional, Field Smart Approach to the Workplace By Michelle Heller, Lynette Veach, Cengage Learning, 2009.

Evaluation

MEASURING YOUR ACQUIRED SKILLS:

The acquired skills and learning are measured according to the grading criteria and rubrics outlined below. As a part of the course requirements and based on the educational assessment model adapted by the college, you are expected and are required to work on the out-of-class work (assignment, research, project, and other instructor assigned activity) a minimum of two times of the class weekly lecture time. For example for a three unit course you must document a minimum of six hours of out-of-class course related academic activities

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Grading:

Grade Scales:

Activity

Points

Percent

Points

Percent

Grade

Attendance, Collaboration, and

Group Discussion Participation

100

10 %

940-1000

900-939

94-100%

90-93 %

A

A-

Text and Online

Projects/Exercises/Assignments

100

10 %

861-899

840-860

800-839

87-89 %

84-86 %

80-83 %

B+

B

B-

Quizzes and Examinations

250

25 %

770-799

740-769

700-739

77-79 %

74-76 %

70-73 %

C+

C

C-

Focused Projects

100

10 %

650-699

600-649

66-69 %

60-65 %

D+

D

Course Project

200

20 %

0-599

0-59%

F

Final Examination

250

250 %

The above grading is based on Richfield

College qualitative grade standards

Total

1000

100%

ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT PERFORMANCE: GRADING CRITERIA

A = 94-100 POINTS C+ = 77-79 POINTS A- = 90-93 C = 74-76

B+ =87-89 C- = 70-73 B = 84-86 D+ = 66-69 B- = 80-83 D = 60-65

GENERAL GRADING GUIDELINES

“A” = clearly stands out as excellent performance. Definitely completes all the course requirements in a superior fashion, has unusually sharp insight into material and initiates thoughtful questions, goes beyond the basic requirements of the course by incorporating additional research, sees many sides of an issue, articulates well, and writes logically and clearly; integrates ideas previously learned from this and other disciplines/courses and anticipates the next steps in the progression of ideas.

“B” = Clearly completes all the course requirements in a professional way, grasps subject matter at a level considered to be good to very good, is an active listener and participant in class discussion, speaks and

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writes well, accomplishes more than the minimum requirements, and produces work in and out of class that is of high quality.

“C” = Demonstrates a satisfactory comprehension of the subject matter, accomplishes only the minimum requirements, displays little initiative, communicates orally and in writing at an acceptable level for a graduate student, and has a generally acceptable understanding of all basic concepts.

“D” = Quality and quantity of work in and out of class is below average, unsatisfactory and barely acceptable.

“F” = Quality and quantity of work in and out of class is unacceptable.

Note

: To remain in good standing, a MEDICAL ASSISTANT student must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

GRADING POLICIES:

Grades are not negotiable. Incompletes will not be issued except in cases of a fully documented emergency and at the instructor’s discretion based on each case.

y, draw blood,

X-rays.