Medical Clinical Occupations

This course combines clinical and administrative skills designed to prepare students to assist the doctor in an office, clinic, or health care center. Instruction includes medical ethics and confidentiality, anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology. Students will learn to give injections, draw blood (venipuncture), take vital signs, operate a 12-lead EKG machine, calculate drug dosage using the metric system (pharmacology), and assist with various clinical and diagnostic procedures in the exam room. Students will also learn to schedule appointments, utilize proper telephone techniques, basic billing systems, handle mail, type correspondence, file patient records, and maintain financial records.