Medical Assistant

Your start to a rewarding career!

$5,000 scholarships available for Medical Assisting students!

Medical Assisting students can apply for a $5,000 scholarship during the first term in the program after being accepted. Scholarship recipients will receive $2,500 after successfully completing their first term, and $2,500 after completing their second term. That covers almost half the program cost! The scholarship application will be available in mid-late October. Opportunities for scholarships will be available for the next few cohorts of students accepted into the program, both for this year, and next academic year.

Learn about internship opportunities through Cooperative Education

Get work experience and make career connections while earning credit through a Cooperative Education internship, all as a part of your degree!

What you’ll earn

Do you have a passion for healthcare? Working as a Medical Assistant means you’ll have a direct impact on patient and community health. If you enjoy face to face work with patients, variety in your work day, and want to start working soon, Lane’s Medical Assisting program will give you the skills and certifications you need to excel! You can either directly start on the certificate, or get a feeling for healthcare through the Basic Health Care Certificate.

1 year certificate

Medical Assistants hold critical roles as multi-skilled health care professionals able to work in a variety of settings where they have an impact on public health. Medical Assisting is rapidly growing, with jobs for certified medical assistants opening up across the country in a wide variety of health care settings every day. To work within the medical assisting field, you’ll need specialized knowledge and skills that can be put to use in direct patient care, administration, and health records, as well as the exciting field of medical scribing. Graduates will receive a one-year Medical Assistant Certificate of Completion, and be prepared for the CMA (AAMA) exam!

Learn more about the Medical Assistant, 1-yr Certificate

1 year Full-time

$12,755 Full program

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Prepare patients for examination or treatment; measure vital signs; accurately record information in the patient chart
Safely assist patients on and off exam table
Sterilize and prepare instruments for physician use
Assist as the physician exams or treats patients, or performs in-office surgeries
Provide medical scribing—charting physician-patient encounters in real time during medical examinations
Administer medications, such as giving injections and immunizations
Draw blood and perform certain laboratory diagnostic testing on blood and urine samples
Code patient diagnoses and procedures using approved ICD-10 and CPT-4 resources
Input patient administrative and clinical information into an Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Calculate medication dosages as well as basic mathematics to process medical insurance claims
Perform administrative duties, which include managing an appointment schedule, organizing patients’ medical records, bookkeeping procedures, and processing insurance claims
Use library resources for research and written assignments for a variety of purposes

AFTER LANE

Our one-year certificate program is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). After earning your one-year Medical Assistant Certificate of Completion, you’ll be prepared for your Certified Medical Assistant (AAMA) exam, the national certifying exam for medical assistants, which is administered by the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Upon passing the certification, you’ll be a CMA (AAMA), which allows you to enter the medical assisting world! Learn more about the CMA (AAMA) credential and exam.

With your certification and degree in hand, you’ll be an asset to any medical setting! The skills and techniques you’ll learn throughout the program will prepare you for jobs in:

Doctor’s offices
Hospitals
Outpatient clinics
Urgent Care and and other healthcare facilities.

Stackable Credentials

In addition to earning the Basic Health Care Certificate while getting your MA certificate, you may be eligible for an Associate of General Studies degree with just a few more courses! Earning your degree will help open additional career opportunities to you, and help you stand out in the competitive healthcare field. Talk to your advisor for more information.

Basic Health Care Certificate

Career Pathways Certificate

You may also qualify for a Basic Health Care Certificate, via the Health Information Management Program. If you’re interested in adding the Basic Health Care Certificate to your degree, talk with your advisor to learn about adding this certificate to your program.

Not sure which is for you? Learn more about the types of degrees & certificates Lane has to offer

Prerequisites

MTH 52 (Math for Health and Physical Sciences) or MTH 95 or higher
WR 115 (Introduction to College Composition)
One Psychology course
HP 100 (Medical Terminology), HP 150 (Human Body Systems 1) or BI 231 (Human Anatomy and Physiology 1)

Please see the catalog for more information.

More Information on the Medical Assistant Program

Read Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the program.

The Medical Assisting Program at Lane Community College has the following 5-year averages* for the years 2018-2022:

89.3% passage rate on the Certified Medical Assistant (AAMA) exam
80.6% job placement rate following graduation.
84% average for student retention

* Based on the annual MAERB 2023 Report

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Accreditation

The Medical Assistant Program at Lane Community College is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB). The next re-accreditation review and evaluation will occur in the 2024-2025 academic year.

CAAHEP
9355 - 113th St. N. #7709
Seminole, FL 33775,
727-210-2350, www.caahep.org