Medical Assisting-Administrative - Associate in Science

Fall 2025
Catalog Description
Graduates of the Administrative Medical Assisting program at Chabot College will have an opportunity to apply for employment as Administrative Medical Assistants in ambulatory care settings such as physician's offices, clinics, surgery centers and other medical facilities. Administrative Medical Assistants are multi-skilled allied health professionals who can perform a variety of administrative and clinical skills.

Career Opportunities

According to LMI data, there are 5,729 annual openings in the Bay Area and 1,758 annual openings in the East Bay Sub-Region for medical administrative assistants. Some job titles available to graduates would be administrative medical assistant, medical secretary, medical receptionist, appointment scheduler, front office coordinator, surgery scheduler, and intake coordinator.
1208.20 - Administrative Medical Assisting*
51.0710 - Medical Office Assistant/Specialist.
Program Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of the program the student should be able to:
  1. enter into competent practice as an entry-level professional medical assistant, in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains;
  2. be responsive to the communities of interest that are served by the program to include, but are not limited to, students, graduates, faculty, sponsor administration, industry partners, physicians, and the public;
  3. employ principles of communication theory to facilitate and maintain effective, verbal, written and non verbal interaction.
YEAR ONE (Semester 1)
7.0
 
HLTH 51A (same as APHC 9701A)
Medical Terminology & the Human Body (Active)
4.0
PSYC C1000
Introduction to Psychology (Active)
3.0
3.0
NUTR 1
Introduction to Nutrition Science (Active)
3.0
OR
NUTR 6
Nutrition for Healthy Living (Active)
3.0
Year One (Semester 2)
6.0
MEDA 60
Introduction to Medical Assisting (Active)
2.0
HLTH 51B (same as APHC 9701B)
Advanced Medical Terminology and Disease Process (Active)
4.0
YEAR TWO (Semester 3)
2.0
MEDA 71A
Administrative Skills I (Active)
2.0
MEDA 76
Electronic Health Record for the Medical Office (Active)
3.0
YEAR TWO (Semester 4)
7.0
MEDA 71B
Administrative Skills II (Active)
2.0
MEDA 83
Administrative Medical Assisting Experience Practicum (Active)
4.0
MEDA 74
Clinical Experience Seminar (Active)
1.0
Total: 28.0