The objective of the Medical Administrative Assistant program is to prepare student through training to gain positions as Medical Administrative Assistants in private practices, clinics and hospitals. Medical Administrative Assistant perform clerical functions that allow medical offices to run efficiently. This field has increasingly become technology based and, therefore, the student will be trained in a variety of software programs that pertain to the medical office.

The Medical Administrative Assistant coordinates the medical offices administrative activities, storing and retrieving data and patient information, maintaining privacy and manages communications with staff and patients.

The Medical Administrative Assistant program consists of two (2) quarters lasting ten (10) weeks per quarter. The externship is five (5) weeks in duration. The typical student would attend day classes from 8:00am to 12:05pm, Monday through Friday. Evening classes would be from 6:00pm to 11:05pm, Monday through Thursday.