Medical Assistant Certificate: CC

Department: Technology, Design and Technical Education
College: College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences

About This Degree

Medical assisting is a fast growing profession that is versatile, interesting, and schedule friendly. Medical assistants have diversified skills that allow them to work in a variety of medical office settings including taking patient histories, obtaining vital signs, electrocardiograms, pulmonary function tests, phlebotomy and collecting and processing lab specimens. MAs also assist in surgical in-office procedures. Many medical offices offer flexibility in scheduling often allowing weekends and evenings off.

The USU Medical Assistant program is accredited through Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES).

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Labs must be completed at USU Eastern (Price) or Blanding campus

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With the certificate of completion the medical assistant can work is a variety of settings including: Emergency room, urgent care, medical offices (including specialty clinics), hospitals and many other medical services settings.

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