Medical assistants enjoy an exciting, challenging career that is essential to patient care. Medical assistants are multi-skilled health professionals specifically educated to work in ambulatory settings performing administrative and clinical duties. The practice of medical assisting directly influences the public’s health and well-being, and requires mastery of a complex body of knowledge and specialized skills requiring both formal education and practical experience that serve as standards for entry into the profession.
EvCC offers a nationally accredited certificate program, one of the nation's best based on the number of students who pass the national examination. Employers prefer to hire certified workers who have passed the national exam. you can earn a Certificate in Medical Assisting (83 credits), or an Associate in Technical Arts (98 credits).
Neither the certificate nor degree is intended for university transfer.
Medical Assistant Program Mission
The mission of the Medical Assisting program is:
- To prepare competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domain.
- To prepare students to perform within the ethical and legal boundaries of the Medical Assistant’s scope of practice.
- To prepare students to integrate and value the needs of the individual patient, within his/her family, culture, society and health circumstances.
- To prepare students to display professionalism and cultural sensitivity while interacting and communicating with providers, staff and patients.
- To prepare student to participate as team players within the various settings of health care delivery.
- To prepare students to maintain currency within their field through continuing education.
- To prepare students to integrate and promote the Certified Medical Assistant credential.
The Everett Community College Medical Assisting Certificate program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon the recommendation of the Curriculum Review Board of the American Association of Medical Assistants Endowment (CRB-AAMAE). CAAHP, 1361 Park Street, Clearwater, FL 33756, 727-210-2350.
EvCC Core Learning Outcomes:
1. Engage and take responsibility as active learners
Students will be involved in the learning process as they gain deeper levels of understanding of the subject matter. They will design, complete, and analyze projects while developing group interaction and leadership skills.
2. Think critically
Students will develop and practice analytical skills, problem-solving skills, and quantitative reasoning skills. Using creativity and self-reflection, they will be able to engage in inquiry that produces well-reasoned, meaningful conclusions.
3. Communicate effectively
Students will develop the organizational and research skills necessary to write and speak effectively. The students will demonstrate awareness of different audiences, styles, and approaches to oral and written communication.
4. Participate in diverse environments
Students will gain the awareness of and sensitivity to diversity, including one’s own place as a global citizen. Students attain knowledge and understanding of the multiple expressions of diversity, and the skills to recognize, analyze, and evaluate diverse issues and perspectives.
5. Utilize information literacy skills
Students will develop and employ skills to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, effectively use and communicate information in its various forms.
6. Demonstrate computer and technology proficiency
Students will use computers and technology as appropriate in their course of study.
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