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• Lancaster
  

Ohio University-Lancaster offers a two-year program leading to the Associate in Applied Science in medical assisting technology. The program is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary in both the scientific/ clinical areas and the business/administrative areas of the medical assisting field. Medical assistants are allied health professionals who work in a variety of health care settings.

MAT students are required to complete a health form and have a doctor certify that they are sufficiently healthy to perform clinical and externship duties. Students are required to have up-to-date immunizations for MMR, Varicella, TB (within the last 10 years), Hepatitis B, and PPD (within one year of program entry date). Students also are required to have current provider level CPR (adult, child, infant) and First Aid prior to taking Clinical Techniques, Administrative MA, and Externship courses. These must be documented in writing to the MAT program director by March 1st, prior to enrollment in MAT 170 and MAT 201. Contact the director of the Medical Assisting Technology program for further information.

The Ohio University Lancaster Medical Assisting Technology program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (http://www.caahep. org/) upon the recommendation of the Curriculum Review Board of the American Association of Medical Assistants Endowment (AAMAE).