This program is intended for students who want to prepare for an exciting, challenging, and rewarding career in healthcare.  This program will train students to assist physicians by performing functions related to the clinical responsibilities of a medical office.  Instruction includes among other things preparing patients for examination and treatment, routine laboratory procedures, diagnostic testing, technical aspects of phlebotomy, and the cardiac life cycle.  Students will review important topics including phlebotomy, pharmacology, the proper use and administration of medications, taking and documenting vital signs, cardiology including proper lead placements, professional workplace behavior, ethics, and the legal aspects of healthcare. This program includes 140 hours of classroom lecture and hands-on labs and a clinical externship opportunity at a local healthcare provider.   

NHA National Certification:  This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) national examination. 

NWCA National Certification:  This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Clinical Medical Assistant (CMAC) Exam.

Clinical Externship: This program includes a 160-hour clinical externship opportunity. To be eligible for the clinical, students must successfully complete the 140-hour program, submit to a thorough background check, drug screening, and meet other requirements.   

Course Contact Hours: 140 hours + Clinical Externship

Student Tuition: $2,799 (Textbooks included)

Clinical Externship Hours: 160 hours

The Dental Assisting Program prepares students for entry-level positions in one of the fastest-growing health care positions - Dental Assisting. The Dental Assisting program will cover key areas and topics exposing the student to both classroom and hands-on instruction. The classroom instruction reviews the necessary anatomy, terminology, legal and ethical issues as well as the policy and guidelines necessary to understanding the scope of practice and the practical aspects of dental assisting.  Topics include instrument identification, equipment maintenance, tooth structure, and oral cavity anatomy, dental anesthesia, sterilization, and charting.  The student will learn the steps necessary to assist the dentist while providing quality dental care within the community.  The program includes a review of tooth charting, restorations, bridge implants, bitewing, panograph, and periapical x-ray, and the mixing of dental cement. 

National Certification: Additionally, this 100 contact hour course includes a CPR certification course and covers the relevant material necessary to prepare students to take the State of Texas “TSBDE” Dental Assisting exam offered throughout the State of Texas.   

NWCA National Certification:  This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Dental Assisting (DACC) exam.   

Clinical Externship: As part of this Dental Assisting program, you will be eligible to participate in a 40-hour clinical externship. 

Course Contact Hours: 100 hours + Clinical Externship

Student Tuition: $1,999 (Textbooks included)

Clinical Externship: 80 hours

 

This comprehensive 50-hour program will prepare students to work as a pharmacy technician in a retail or other pharmacy setting and to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board’s PTCB exam.  Course content includes pharmacy medical terminology, the history of pharmacy, the pharmacy practice in multiple environments, pharmacy calculations and measurements, reading and interpreting prescriptions, and defining drugs by generic and brand names.  Through classroom lecture and hands-on labs, students will review dosage calculations, drug classifications, the “top 200 drugs”, I.V. flow rates, sterile compounding, dose conversions, aseptic technique, the handling of sterile products, total parenteral nutrition (TPN), dispensing of prescriptions, inventory control, and billing and reimbursement.  

National Certification: This program meets the necessary requirements to take the Pharmacy Technician Certified Board (PTCB) – Certified Pharmacy Technician (PTCB) exam.  

NWCA National Certification:  This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Pharmacy Technician (PTAC) Exam.                                                                     

Clinical Externship: As part of this Pharmacy Technician program, you will be eligible to participate in an 80-hour clinical externship. 

Course Contact Hours: 50 hours + Clinical Externship

Student Tuition: $1,499 (Textbooks included)

Clinical Externship Hours: 80 hours 

This 90-hour Phlebotomy Technician Program prepares professionals to collect blood specimens from clients for the purpose of laboratory analysis.  Students will become familiar with all aspects related to blood collection and develop comprehensive skills to perform venipunctures completely and safely. Classroom and lab work includes terminology, anatomy and physiology; blood collection procedures; specimen hands-on practice; and training in skills and techniques to perform puncture methods.   

National Certification:   Students who complete this program will have the opportunity to pursue the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam. 

NWCA National Certification:  This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA) Phlebotomy Technician (CPT) Exam. 

Student Tuition: $1,999 (Textbooks included)

Course Contact Hours: 90 hours