Medical Assisting is a profession whose practitioners work primarily in settings such as medical offices and clinics. Medical assistants function as members of the health care delivery team and perform both administrative and clinical procedures.

 

Instruction includes: medical and administrative office procedures, scheduling appointments, electronic health records and documentation, taking vital signs, phlebotomy, electrocardiography, clinical assisting in all specialties, performing point of care Clia-waived laboratory testing, assisting with prescriptive medications, administering injectable medications,  insurance verification and billing, diagnostic and procedure coding, and the program concludes with a clinical internship emphasizing hands-on care.

 

As a result of the education students receive at LWTC in the Medical Assisting Program the 2020 job placement rate was 90.91%