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MA Program Overview

MA Courses Requirements

Occupational Skills Awards

Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8am to 5:00pm
Closed Weekends

Location: Building [map]
Phone: (949) 582-4701


Faculty:

Kay Stevens, MA, RN
Department Chair
Medical Assisting and Insurance/Coding
(949) 582-4912

Doug Alexander, AA

Ron Austin, Ph.D, CTN, CPC

Rob Henry, RN
(949) 582-4405 

Safiah Mamoon, BS, CPC

Susan White-Alcover, RN, BSN, MSN, CAPA

Medical Assistant Program

The Medical Assistant Program prepares students for employment as a medical assistant in a physician's office or clinic. The curriculum is designed to provide training in administrative (front office) and clinical (back office) medical assisting skills. Instruction is given in basic medical office procedures (including appointment scheduling, billing, and insurance), assisting with examinations, laboratory procedures (including venipuncture, pharmacology and injections), electrocardiography, public relations, supervision and practice-building techniques. An externship experience helps provide the student with the skills necessary to enter this field. The Saddleback College Medical Assisting program meets California State requirements and provides certificates for venipuncture,
skin puncture, and injections (intramuscular, subcutaneous, and intradermal).

Certification/Degree Earned

Medical Assistant Program Completion Certificate: Administrative, Clinical, or Comprehensive depending upon
course of study.

Program Information

The Medical Assistant Program must be completed in one year.  For reasons of patient safety, skills and information must be current when students enter the final phase of the program, the externship.  The externship or clinical experience must be completed immediately following the second semester of completed procedural and core courses.

All clinical courses (those with a B after the course number) and some of the administrative courses (those with an A after the course number) are only offered one time during the school year.  This means that the course is only offered in either the Fall or the Spring Semester and will not be repeated again that year.

Some administrative courses and all core courses (these have no letter after the course number) are offered in both the Fall and Spring Semesters as well as during the summer.  Students entering the Medical Assistant Program in the spring should consider taking core courses during the summer.

The final phase of the program is the externship, Clinical Experience 217A-Administrative, 217B- Clinical or 217C-Comprehensive.  Externships occur in the summer and in the spring for students who have completed all requirements.

The Medical Assisting Program Overview identifes the required courses for each certificate and indicates which are only offered in the fall and which are only offered in the spring.  It also shows which are 8-week courses.  All of the courses offered during the semester should be enrolled in at once.

Please review the information located on the website. Links are listed in the left column. It is hoped that this information is useful to help potential students plan ahead and assure that all courses in the Medical Assistant Program are completed in the required time frame prior to the externship.

For more information call the Division Office – 949-582-4701 or

Kay Stevens, RN, MA,

Medical Assistant and Insurance/Coding Department Chair, 949-582-4912