Medical Assisting

Medical Assisting is a program taught at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus, USA. Intake: Fall semester. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (Certificate of Occupational Training: three semesters (38 cr) options.

The Medical Assisting program at Eastern New Mexico University – Roswell prepares medical assistants to enter the profession through learning in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) domains. Medical assistants are trained to perform administrative and clinical duties in physician’s offices.

The Certificate of Occupational Training is three semesters (38 credits), beginning in the fall semester and ending with a practicum in a physician’s office in the summer semester.

Students study administrative skills such as telephones and call screening, appointment scheduling, billing and collection techniques, insurance claims processing and coding, and office management and payroll.

They also study clinical skills such as taking patient history, entering electronic medical records, scribing for a physician, taking vital signs, drawing blood for lab tests, sterilizing instruments, and assisting with office surgery, procedures, and injections.

The minimum requirements for admission in Medical Assisting at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus as pre-requiste for admission in Medical Assisting.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

• To remain in the program, students must pass mandatory drug screening during the second semester.
• Students enrolling in the Medical Assisting Program are required to retake all courses if more than two years have elapsed since completing any program coursework.
• Students are expected to meet health history, immunization, and background check requirements.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.roswell.enmu.edu/programs/medical-assisting/

• Clinical Medical Assistant
• Administrative Medical Assistant
• Specialty Medical Assistant
• Medical Office Manager
• Medical Assistant Instructor
• Hospital or Clinic Coordinator
• Healthcare Technician

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