A.A.S./Administrative Office Professional: Medical Option

 Business and Management
 Health Services

Intended Program Outcomes:

This two-year program leading to an A.A.S. in administrative office assistant, medical option, provides students with the specialized skills necessary for employment as medical administrative assistants. Students will be effective in the workplace in the following areas:

  • Use of appropriate medical terminology with written and oral accuracy.
  • Use of transcription equipment effectively to produce medical documents.
  • Office bookkeeping and general accounting tasks.
  • Effective use of database and spreadsheet software.

Employment possibilities include hospitals, medical laboratories, and doctors’ offices. 

   
CREDITS
BA110A Business Computer Applications/MS Access  
3
BA110X Business Computer Applications/MS Excel   3
BA111 Basic Accounting  
4
BA131 Introduction to Business Computing  
4
BA177 Payroll Accounting   4
BA209Q Accounting Applications/QuickBooks  
3
BA214 Business Communications  
3
BA277 Business Ethics  
3
BA280 CWE Business  
2
BA284 Pre-Employment Seminar  
1
BA285 Human Relations in Business  
3
BT116 Professional Office Procedures  
3
BT121 Document Processing I  
3
BT122 Document Processing II  
3
BT123 Document Processing III  
3
BT124 Keyboarding for Accuracy & Speed  
3
BT140 Business Document Editing  
3
BT201M Word Processing Procedures/Word  
3
BT202M Word Processing Procedures/Word  
3
BT206 Desktop Publishing  
3
BT220 Calculating Machines  
3
BT251 Medical Terminology  
3
BT252 Medical Terminology  
3
BT253 Medical Transcription  
3
BT254 Medical Transcription   3
BT257 Medical Office Procedures   3
BT258 Medical Insurance Procedures & Coding   3
COM111 Fundamentals of Speech (or higher)  
4
HTM131 Customerer Service Management I  
3
BA104 Business Mathematics OR
4
MTH095 Intermediate Algebra (or higher)  
(5)
WR121 English Composition  
4
Total Credits  
96

(Information based on the 2011-12 BMCC Academic Catalog)

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