MEDA200 Clinical Procedures I
Department of Health Sciences: Medical Assisting
- I. Course Number and Title
- MEDA200 Clinical Procedures I
- II. Number of Credits
- 3 credits
- III. Number of Instructional Minutes
- 2250
- IV. Prerequisites
- BIOL115 Basic Human Anatomy (C or better) and MEDA120 Medical Terminology (C or better)
- Corequisites
- None
- V. Other Pertinent Information
- This course should be taken in the semester prior to the externship, with no more than two semesters delay.
- VI. Catalog Course Description
- This course is designed to give the medical assistant student knowledge and practice in skills needed in a medical office. Topics include managing the clinical environment, patient teaching, obtaining a medical history and vital signs, assisting with examinations, sterilizing equipment, assisting with minor office surgery, and understanding diet and nutrition.
- VII. Required Course Content and Direction
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Course Learning Goals
Students will
- demonstrate an understanding of best practice in a medical office setting, including:
- infection control
- risk management
- supplies and equipment;
- demonstrate and utilize a four-step plan in the teaching process in order to develop and deliver a teaching plan that uses correct medical terminology to meet the patient's needs;
- measure and document all vital signs using a variety of techniques;
- prepare patients for examinations, procedures and treatments, including but not limited to, transferring of patients, gowning, draping and positioning while maintaining aseptic techniques; and
- teach patients health promotion and disease prevention through proper nutrition meeting the patient's specific nutritional needs.
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Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities
- managing the back office
- safety and assurance responsibilities for the medical assistant
- the examination room
- encouraging therapeutic communication
- challenges to therapeutic communication
- the importance of patient education
- a patient-centered teaching approach
- the importance of the health history form
- components of the health history
- the healthcare interview
- the chain of infection
- body defense mechanisms
- infectious disease: new challenges
- strategies for infection control
- compliance with bloodborne pathogen standard
- working with primary practitioners
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Assessment Methods for Course Learning Goals
The assessment of course learning goals will be based on classroom discussions, written exams, assignments, papers, and/or performance-based tasks and projects. -
Reference, Resource, or Learning Materials to be used by Student:
See course syllabus.
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Review/Approval Date - 3/99; Revised 4/05; Revised 12/2009; Revised 3/21; New Core 8/2015