Admission Requirements

1. Attendance at a program information session or call 410-777-7310 for schedule. You may also view the online information session. Detailed information regarding profession, admission and academic requirements will be discussed.
2. Submit a program application to Florestano 100.
3. High school graduate or equivalency. Official transcripts required.
4. 18 years of age or older by first day of class.
5. Eligibility for ENG 111  or ENG 115  or ENG 121 .
6. Eligibility for a mathematics general education course (see General Education Mathematics Requirements ).
7. Take the Arithmetic Placement Test and receive a score of 27 or higher or enroll in MAT 005  and complete it with a grade of C or better.
8. Prerequisites must be completed with a minimum grade of “C” in each course.
9. Must have a minimum adjusted grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 at this college.
10. Foreign educated students: must have their college and high school transcripts evaluated by one of the following credential evaluators: ECE (Educational Credential Evaluators) at www.ece.org or WES (World Education Services) at www.wes.org.
11. Foreign educated students whose native language is not English must successfully pass the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) with a minimum score of 550 (213 is the equivalent computer score and 79 is the equivalent Internet based score) OR must have completed the ENG 111 /ENG 112 , ENG 115 /ENG 116 , or ENG 121  course sequence with grades of “C” or better prior to applying to the Medical Assisting program. Anne Arundel Community College’s code for TOEFL is 5019.

Note: The Medical Assisting program is a 1+1 program. Students complete the certificate courses in year one and the degree requirements in year two.

Selection Criteria

Students will be admitted to the medical assisting course sequence on a rolling admission basis. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Students will apply for the Medical Assisting program only after meeting all academic and admission criteria. Once the applicant’s admission criteria have been verified, that student receives conditional acceptance for the next available seat. Applications will be rejected if incomplete. Incomplete applications will be sent back to the student and can be resubmitted once they are complete. Students need only apply once to the program, providing their application is complete. A future seat will be slotted for them once the student meets the criteria for admission.

To be considered for conditional acceptance, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Must satisfactorily complete all academic and admission requirements.
• Final acceptance into the program shall be contingent upon satisfactory completion of a criminal background check, Health Examination Record and submission of current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR certification card. Information and deadline for completion will be sent in applicant’s conditional acceptance packet. These are not to be completed prior to acceptance notification.

Technical Standards

Students who are conditionally accepted to this program of study will be required to submit a Health Examination Record completed by a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant validating that the student meets the technical standard of good physical and mental health as established by the School of Health Sciences, and verifying that the student is free of communicable diseases as evidenced by required immunizations/titers.

CPR

Students must successfully complete the American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR course by designated deadline.

Criminal Background Checks and Drug Screening

This program requires the satisfactory completion of a criminal background check and possible drug screening. For complete details, see the Health Sciences  section of this catalog.

Prerequisites

• ACA 100-Student Success Seminar 1 credit hour
• MDA 113-Medical Terminology 3 credit hours

First Year - Term 1

• HIT 200-Electronic Health Records 2 credits
• MDA 111-Laws and Ethics for Health Professionals 2 credit hours
• MDA 115-Administrative Medical Assisting 1 3 credit hours
• MDA 117-Administrative Medical Assisting 2 3 credit hours

First Year - Term 2

• MDA 112-Pharmacology for Health Professions 3 credit hours
• MDA 140-Clinical Medical Assisting 1 6 credit hours
• MDA 142-Clinical Medical Assisting 2 4 credit hours

First Year - Term 3

• MDA 274-Professional Seminar 1 credit hour
• MDA 275-Medical Assisting Practicum 3 credit hours

• Practicum (MDA 275 ) internship requires 160 hours of unpaid supervised work experience in a physician’s office or wherever medical office administration with clinical skills is required. Eligibility: Completion of all courses required for the MDA certificate with a minimum of 2.0 GPA; meeting the technical standards of the Medical Assisting department.

Second Year - Term 1

• BIO 230-Structure and Function of the Human Body 4 credit hours

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• ENG 111-Composition and Introduction to Literature 1 3 credit hours OR
• ENG 115-Composition and Introduction to Literature 1 for Non-Native Speakers 3 credit hours OR
• ENG 121-Composition and Literature 3 credit hours

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• COM 111-Fundamentals of Oral Communication 3 credit hours OR
• COM 116-Fundamentals of Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers 3 credit hours

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• PSY 111-Introduction to Psychology 3 credit hours

Second Year - Term 2

• SOC 111-Introduction to Sociology 3 credit hours

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• CTA 100-Computing and Information Technology 4 credit hours OR
• CTP 103-Theories and Applications of Digital Technology 4 credit hours

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• MDA 114-Diseases of the Human Body 3 credit hours

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• ENG 112-Composition and Introduction to Literature 2 3 credit hours OR
• ENG 116-Composition and Introduction to Literature 2 for Non-Native Speakers 3 credit hours

• Successful completion of ENG 121  fully satisfies the college English composition general education requirement. Students who take ENG 121  and not ENG 111 -112  may need to take an additional elective course to ensure that they complete a minimum of 60 credits, which are required for the award of an associate degree. These credit hours must be chosen with the approval of the department chair or program coordinator.