Campus Offered: Council Bluffs

The Medical Assistant program serves “to prepare competent entry-level medical assistants in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains,”; preparing students to be employed as administrative and clinical assistants in a medical provider’s office. The ten-month program includes practical experience of 190 unpaid practicum hours in a provider’s office. Upon completion, students are eligible to take the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) examination to become a Certified Medical Assistant (CMA, AAMA), and the American Medical Technologist (AMT) examination to become a Registered Medical Assistant (RMA). Graduates of this program are awarded a diploma. The Medical Assistant Program at Iowa Western Community College is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (www.caahep.org) upon the recommendation of the Medical Assistant Education Review Board (MAERB).

Students must complete the curriculum described below: