Program Chair
Denise Lash
Dlash4@lakelandcc.edu
440.525.7428
Medical assistants are multiskilled health professionals who work with doctors and patients to perform clinical and administrative duties. They work in medical offices, clinics and urgent care facilities. Clinical duties include performing medical tests, handling medications, helping with exams and educating patients. Administrative duties include registering patients, managing the office, bookkeeping, coding and billing insurance.
Employment of medical assistants is projected to grow 18% from 2020 to 2030.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook for medical assistants.
Lakeland student job placement outcomes.
Students must be 18 years or older and a high school diploma or equivalent to take the Medical Assisting Clinical Practicum (summer term following high school graduation). Students will not be able to complete the program without completion of the Medical Assisting Clinical Practicum.
- Admitted to CCP program (general CCP admission requires a 2.75 grade-point average or better and a B or higher in high school English). Apply now!
- Background checks and drug screening
- Health requirements
- Technical skills are required for these programs.
Technical Standards for multiskilled health technologies students pursuing multiskilled health technologies certificate options are admitted based on their academic dimension. In addition, learners must possess visual, auditory, tactile and motor abilities to allow him/her to gather data from written materials, oral presentations by patient and their family, health care personnel, colleagues, by observing a patient and his/her environment, by observing clinical procedures performed by others, by reading digital or analog representations of physiologic phenomena, and by performing a basic examination or performing a medical procedure on a patient.
- Place into MATH 0850 Beginning Algebra or successfully completed MATH 0745 Essential Skills for Algebra
- Place into ENGL 1110 English Composition I (A) or ENGL 1111 English Composition I (B) or successfully completed ENGL 0111 Fundamentals of College Literacy
- Programs recommended for completion prior to entering this program:
- Electronic Health Records (HLTH 1150)
- Medical Terminology (HLTH 1215)
- Human Body (HLTH 1238)
- Medical Assisting Certificate/Area of Specialization (3550)
- Administrative Medical Office Assistant Certificate/Area of Specialization (3549)
- Electrocardiography Certificate/Area of Specialization (3251)
- National Center for Competency Testing (NCCA) - Administrative Medical Office Assistant (fall semester)
- National Center for Competency Testing (NCCA) - EKG Technician (spring semester)
- American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) - Certified Medical Assistant (summer term following high school graduation)