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Medical Assistant

Associate Degree Program

The Medical Assistant Program will prepare competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) domains. The Medical Assistant Program will provide instruction in medical assistant courses using a variety of methods, with emphasis on practical application of administration and clinical skills.

Offered at the following location(s): Wilmington

What You Can Do

In this program, you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you for positions such as:

• Medical assistants work alongside physicians, mainly in outpatient or ambulatory care facilities, such as medical offices and clinics

What You Will Learn

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

1. Exhibit effective nonverbal, verbal, and written communication in patient and/or client and family interventions and education and in professional relationships.
2. Exercise independent judgment and critical thinking in performance of medical assisting, according to the profession's standards of practice.
3. Demonstrate professional patterns of behavior consistent with the profession's code of ethics.
4. Demonstrate clinical competence by performing a full range of medical assistant procedures on all patient populations.
5. Demonstrate administrative competence by performing a full range of medical assistant procedures on all patient populations.

Core Curriculum Competencies

The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:

1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Pathway to Graduation

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