Medical Assisting

Awards

Lincoln Campus

Types of Jobs Available

Our Medical Assisting program prepares you to work in physician offices. Some of the many skills you will learn are: taking vital signs, height and weight, drawing blood, testing blood and urine, throat and nasal swabs, injections, electrocardiograms, vision and hearing screenings, infant measurements, and assisting with minor surgeries. You also will learn how to do many of the skills needed at the front of the physician office such as checking in patients, making appointments and referrals, bookkeeping, and insurance and coding. The following physician offices hire SCC Medical Assisting graduates: family practice, allergy and asthma, cardiology, dermatology, ENT, endocrinology, internal medicine, oncology, pediatrics, podiatry, OB-GYN, ophthalmology, optometry, pulmonology, and urology. An optional course is offered to help students obtain a Limited Radiographer License in Nebraska. Those graduates then may be able to take X-rays of the chest and/or extremities in a physician’s office.

Program Overview

This program is located on the Lincoln Campus.

The program prepares students to become competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.

New students are admitted to the program in the Fall and Spring semesters.

Southeast Community College, in cooperation with Central Community College, provides an opportunity for students to earn an associate degree in Medical Assisting.

For more information contact:
Kathy Zabel, Program Chair
402-437-2756, 800-642-4075 ext. 2756,
kzabel@southeast.edu

or the College Admissions Office
Lincoln 402-437-2600, 800-642-4075 ext. 2600

The Medical Assisting program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board. Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, 727-210-2350.

Admission Requirements

Application to the program
Specific levels of Math, Reading, and Writing Placement Scores.
Transcripts from high school, GED^® or other colleges (if applicable)