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MEDICAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
 As a Medical Administrative Assistant, you are an integral member of the health care team. Your organizational skills and clear understanding of medical and insurance coding terminology keeps your workplace running efficiently. You will be trained in basic CPR, but will mainly function in an administrative environment performing duties such as transcription, billing, and word processing. You will also use medical computer applications to manage patient records.
How long is the program?
In San Bernardino, we have both day and evening programs available.
- Our Day program is 32 weeks.
- Our Evening program is 39 weeks.
Will I receive hands-on, real world job experience?
Concorde provides a realistic environment, and we also offer a hands-on working experience called an externship. Our Medical Administrative Assistant externship is 4 weeks for both our day and evening programs.
What skills will I learn?
- CPR
- Perform vitals
- Preparing medical charts and reports
- Medical correspondence from dictation
- Payroll
- Medisoft Billing System
- Medical office bookkeeping
- Medical front office management
- Computer training in Microsoft Word
- Typing
- Transcription
Where can I work?
- Hospitals
- Physician's office (private or group practice)
- Other healthcare environments
- Insurance companies
- Health maintenance companies
- Medical Records Facility
- Basic Home Transcription and Insurance Billing
Are there really jobs available for me?
 We could tell you... "Absolutely." But, what we prefer to do is to encourage you to do the research yourself. Get a copy of your local newspaper and read through the Health Care job listings. Look for your potential job category and see for yourself how many great opportunities will be available to you when you complete your Concorde training. Jump online and search some of the excellent job resource websites for opportunities in your field. The jobs are out there... so don't wait any longer if you want to work in Health Care. Come to Concorde and we'll prepare you quickly and thoroughly for your new career.
Will I receive any special certificates or qualifications?
- Concorde Career College Diploma
- CPR Certification
- Word Processing Certificate
- Transcription Completion Certificate - upon achievement of 8 completed transcriptions
And finally, how much does it cost?
We know how important this question is to most of you. We have found that our program costs may change slightly with each new session. For that reason, we are unable to provide cost information on our website. We are, however, very happy to discuss our current program costs with you personally. Please give us a call anytime. Just tell your campus representative that you have visited our website and would like information about our program.
If you have questions about financial aid, your campus representative will refer you to our excellent Financial Aid staff who are specifically here to help you explore financial aid options available to you!
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