Medical assistants perform a variety of health-related tasks. We teach you basic skills in multiple areas of patient care. Clinical skills include using sterile technique and infection control, recording patient information, taking vital signs and preparing patients for examinations, collecting and processing specimens, and assisting with minor in-office surgeries. Administrative skills include scheduling patients, preparing and maintaining records, performing administrative skills and medical transcription, handling telephone calls, and writing correspondence. You learn overall assistance in all aspects of patient care under the physician's supervision.
Prepare competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), Psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
100%- Average job placement rate for 2020 Graduates.
100%- Average passage rate for 2020 Graduates.
100%- Average retention rate for 2020 Admission Cohort.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Quick Facts: Medical Assistants
2021 Median Pay:
$37,190 per year
$17.88 per hour
CEI's Medical Assisting program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).
CAAHEP: 9355 113th Street N., #7709, Seminole, FL 33775-7709 / P:727-210-2350 •
F:727-210-2354 / email@caahep.org
The Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB)
MAERB: 2020 N. California Ave., #213 Suite 7 Chicago, IL 60647
https://www.maerb.org/
The Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB)
The Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB) is a Committee on Accreditation (CoA) for the Commission on Accreditation for Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). As a CoA of CAAHEP, MAERB performs the everyday work of accreditation for medical assisting education programs: setting up and conducting site visits, organizing, and reviewing annual reports for compliance with established outcome thresholds, providing workshops, resources, and training for programs and site surveyors; and submitting recommendations for CAAHEP Board Action.
MAERB works collaboratively with CAAHEP to develop the CAAHEP Standards and Guidelines for the Accreditation of Educational Programs in Medical Assisting.
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