May 05, 2024  
Course/Program Inventory 
    
Course/Program Inventory

MDCA 1301 - Medical Assisting I



Credit hours: 3

Prerequisites: Official admission to the Medical Assisting program is required.

Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the Medical Assistant student with lectures and activities related to the entry-level skills performed by Medical Assistants in physicians’ practices.  These lectures and activities will relate directly to the anatomy and physiology of the human body as outlined in the Learning Outcomes below.

Student Learning Outcomes:
The institution will establish specific competencies and measurable objectives, typically called Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs), and are included on the course syllabus.

Students will be able to:

  1. Describe structural organization of the human body
  2. Identify body systems
  3. Describe body planes, directional terms, quadrants, and cavities
  4. List major organs in each body system