About Us

    A medical secretary is a medical office specialist who performs secretarial and administrative duties in hospitals, long-term care facilities, ambulatory care clinics, managed care organizations, professional staff offices, insurance companies and other health care related centers.

    The Medical Secretary Diploma Program is designed to prepare students to become qualified Medical Secretaries. This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills expanding the traditional role of the Medical Secretary. The content includes the use of technology to develop communication skills, higher level thinking skills, and decision making skills, medical terminology, the performance of office procedures specific to the medical environment, transcription of medical documents from machine dictation; the production of quality work in an efficient manner using advanced features of business software applications; research of job opportunities; and the production of high quality employment portfolios and job-seeking documents.

    The program focus on broad, transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the medical secretarial industry; technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology; labor issues; community issues; and health, safety, and environmental issues.

    The Medical Secretary Diploma Program combines interest in the medical field with clerical skills. This program is designed to prepare students for responsibilities such as providing administrative support to keep health organizations running smoothly.

    Students will learn medical terminology in order to transcribe digital dictation prepare correspondence, maintain medical record and charts, assist physicians and/or medical scientists with reports, also receive training related to hospital, clinical and laboratory data reporting. Medical Secretaries must sustain a consistent level of interest and dedication because their work directly relates to their client's well being.