Medical Assistants are allied health professionals who perform a wide range of roles in physicians' offices, clinics and other health care settings. They are proficient in many clinical and administrative tasks and are vital members of the health care delivery team. The Medical Assistant Certificate of Completion program teaches the business and clinical skills to become a Medical Assistant. This fully accredited program provides the mechanism for graduates to take the National Board Examination to become a nationally Certified Medical Assistant. Emphasis is on both front and back office. Front office skills include patient relations, medical insurance, finances, coding, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, interpersonal communication skills, administrative procedures, skill development in computer usage and transcription. Back office skills include clinical skills such as medical and surgical asepsis, charting, patient prep, procedure set-ups, prioritizing, medication calculation and administration, EKG, diagnostic imaging theory, and lab skills such as hematology, urinalysis, basic microbiology and phlebotomy.