{"@id":"https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-7eba57b9-9a43-49ba-a51d-1df854100f73","@type":"ceterms:Certificate","@context":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/schema/context/json","ceterms:ctid":"ce-7eba57b9-9a43-49ba-a51d-1df854100f73","ceterms:name":{"en-US":"Medical Assistant"},"ceterms:ownedBy":["https://credentialengineregistry.org/resources/ce-3bbe3373-0406-46f9-80e9-1348a9cfe57c"],"ceterms:inLanguage":["en"],"ceterms:description":{"en-US":"The Medical Assistant training program, at the Levittown and Medford campuses, provides hands-on experience in a real medical setting where you can foster professional relationships with actual patients. Make a difference in society and give back to your community. Improve your patients' quality of life.\nHunter Business School's health care division offers a comprehensive CAAHEP (Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs) accredited Medical Assistant training program that trains students to perform both administrative and clinical tasks under the direction of a physician or other medical professionals.\n\nThe Medical Assistant courses prepares competent, entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains required for professional practice. As a critical link between the patient and the doctor, medical assistants serve in many capacities, including:\n\nCertified Medical Assistant (CMA)\nClinical assistant\nDoctor's assistant\nMedical Assistant (MA)\nMedical office assistant\nThese may be found working in many different health care related environments. During this Hunter Business School course of study, students learn to perform venipuncture (draw blood), prepare patients for examinations, assist with exams and special procedures, perform electrocardiography (EKGs), and carry out various laboratory tests.\n\nHunter Business School students spend 160 hours in an externship in an actual medical work environment where they are supervised and taught in order to gain valuable on-the-job training."},"ceterms:subjectWebpage":"https://hunterbusinessschool.edu/programs-offered/medical-assistant-program","ceterms:credentialStatusType":{"@type":"ceterms:CredentialAlignmentObject","ceterms:framework":"https://credreg.net/ctdl/terms/CredentialStatus","ceterms:targetNode":"credentialStat:Active","ceterms:frameworkName":{"en-US":"Credential Status"},"ceterms:targetNodeName":{"en-US":"Active"},"ceterms:targetNodeDescription":{"en-US":"Awards of the credential are ongoing."}}}