Medical Administrative Assistant Professional
Become proficient in the skills you need to excel as a medical administrative professional with this comprehensive healthcare administration program.
Medical Administrative Assistant Professional
Become proficient in the skills you need to excel as a medical administrative professional with this comprehensive healthcare administration program.
49 Weeks
Program Length
CMAA
Certification
Issuing Authority
Career Insight
What does a Medical Administrative Assistant Professional do?
Healthcare Administration is the backbone of any medical facility. As a medical administrative assistant professional (sometimes called a medical secretary), you’ll be a part of an administrative team responsible for providing both the support to ensure patients’ questions are answered and the necessary administrative activities to make certain that the office is properly organized and running smoothly. Your daily tasks could be behind the scenes doing data processing and filing or at the front lines offering help to patients with billing or other paperwork-related questions. Some examples of your day-to-day tasks will include:
Answering calls and scheduling appointments
Compiling operation reports
Filling out insurance forms
Reviewing and answering correspondence
Updating medical records & charts
Operating computer systems to accomplish office tasks
129,000
NEW JOBS BEFORE 2026
Note: Salaries can vary widely depending on education, experience, employer, and even geographic area. Job and salary information is from Burning Glass Labor Insights and the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Data is updated annually to reflect industry changes.
JOB OUTLOOK
Potential Career Paths
Physician practices, hospitals, and other health care providers all depend on healthcare administrative professionals for day-to-day support to meet the needs of their patients and to ensure that the office runs smoothly. As a medical administrative assistant professional, you’ll have a multitude of career path opportunities as well as the option to work in virtually any healthcare environment including hospitals, urgent care centers, physician’s offices, or surgery centers.
This program will educate you in a wide range of general, clerical, and administrative responsibilities that are encountered in a medical setting, and it will prepare you to take the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Medical Administrative Assistant certification exam. Individuals who have earned the CMAA credential have the skills to find jobs as:
Healthcare Administrative Assistant
Medical Administrative Assistant
Medical Secretary
Medical Office Assistant
JOB OUTLOOK
Potential Career Paths
Physician practices, hospitals, and other health care providers all depend on healthcare administrative professionals for day-to-day support to meet the needs of their patients and to ensure that the office runs smoothly. As a medical administrative assistant professional, you’ll have a multitude of career path opportunities as well as the option to work in virtually any healthcare environment including hospitals, urgent care centers, physician’s offices, or surgery centers.
This program will educate you in a wide range of general, clerical, and administrative responsibilities that are encountered in a medical setting, and it will prepare you to take the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Medical Administrative Assistant certification exam. Individuals who have earned the CMAA credential have the skills to find jobs as:
Healthcare Administrative Assistant
Medical Administrative Assistant
Medical Office Assistant
Medical Secretary
129,000
NEW JOBS BEFORE 2026
Note: Salaries can vary widely depending on education, experience, employer, and even geographic area. Job and salary information is from Burning Glass Labor Insights and the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Data is updated annually to reflect industry changes.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Medical Administrative Assistant – Professional
The Medical Administrative Assistant – Professional program is designed to equip you with the skills necessary to provide excellent administrative support in an office environment and to provide the knowledge to achieve the National Healthcare Association (NHA) Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA) certification through the Certifying Board of the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA).
Attaining the Certified Medical Administrative Assistant national certification proves that you have the expertise to perform routine administrative tasks to help keep the physician’s offices and clinics running efficiently.
In this 49-week online certification program, you will learn medical terminology, patient confidentiality, scheduling, customer service, basic patient documentation, and basic billing as well as other administrative duties required by front office personnel.
Scheduling Details
Schedule: Coursework available 24/7
Total Course Hours: 490
Estimated Completion Time:
Set your own pace…You decide how quickly you want to get certified.
- Students who commit 20 hours/week can complete in 25 weeks.
- Students who commit 10 hours/week can complete in 49 weeks.
Maximum time to complete: Students have access to the online course materials for 49 weeks.
Instruction & Evaluation Strategies
- Self-directed study
- Skills demonstrations and online activities to aid learning
- Quizzes and Exams
Books and Materials Used:
- eBook: FA Davis eBook / Lab Integration: Medical Terminology Systems
- eBook: Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition
- eBook: Study Guide for Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 15th Edition
- Software: SimChart for the Medical Office
Textbooks are included in the cost of tuition.
Outline/Modules
Medical Administrative Assistant Career Prep Curriculum:
- Module 1: Introduction to Medical Assisting
- Module 2: Ambulatory Care Administration
- Module 3: Coding and Medical Billing Procedures
- Module 4: Medical Office Administrative Functions
- Module 5: Assisting with Medical Specialties
- Module 6: Career Development
Medical Terminology Curriculum:
- Introduction to Medical Terminology, The Human Body in Health and Disease, Word Part Review
- Skeletal and Muscular System
- Cardiovascular System
- Lymphatic and Immune System
- Respiratory System
- Digestive System
- Urinary System
- Nervous System and Special Senses: Eyes and Ears
- Integumentary System
- Endocrine System
- Reproductive System
- Diagnostic Procedures, Nuclear Medicine, and Pharmacology
Upon successful completion students will be able to:
- Identify parts of the human body.
- Describe the basic function of each body system.
- Utilize medical terminology in written and spoken communications.
- Define medical terminology commonly found in the medical record.
- Prepare and maintain the medical record.
- Prepare and maintain the appointment schedule.
- Demonstrate proper telephone handling techniques.
- Compose and prepare medical correspondence.
- Transcribe a dictated medical report.
- Manage incoming and outgoing financial transactions for the medical practice.
- Complete basic insurance forms, including the use of ICD-9 and ICD-10.
- Assist with office emergencies.
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