MEDA 100 Administrative Medical Assisting

This course examines the professional qualities and expectations of a medical assistant along with the administrative and clinical duties required to perform in the role. Students will learn the purpose of accreditation and the significance of becoming a credentialed professional. Students will be introduced to types of insurance, health insurance basics, traditional insurance plans, managed care, Medicare, Medicaid, military carriers, and Worker's Compensation and Disability insurance. The importance of interpersonal skills and the critical ability to apply them in the workplace with patients and co-workers will be covered. Students will be introduced to the patient privacy laws and be able to differentiate between laws and ethics. In addition, this course introduces students to basic medical terms, their meanings, and how to decipher medical terms that may not be recognizable at first glance. Students will construct complex medical terms from word roots, medical prefixes and medical suffixes in the context of case studies, personal examples, anatomical terms and diagnostic procedure examples. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 6 quarter hours