Diploma - Dental Assistant

Graduate from our Dental Assisting program, and you'll be qualified to provide instruments and materials to dentists, keep patients' mouths clear, sterilize instruments and equipment, and prepare tray setups for dental procedures. During a patient exam, you may also instruct patients on proper oral care, remove sutures, apply anesthetics to gums or cavity-preventive agents to teeth, and more.

Graduates are awarded a diploma upon completion of the program, and are qualified to work as a Dental Assistant, a Chairside Assistant or a Dental Receptionist in large or small dental offices and clinics in the following fields:

• Endodontics (root canals)
• General Dentistry practices
• Oral Surgery
• Orthodontics (braces)
• Pediodontics (children's dentistry)
• Periodontics (gum disease)

Diploma - Medical Assistant

Medical assistants like spending time with patients, but they're also capable of carrying out important office-type tasks. Change is constant, so they have to be comfortable doing different things each day. They also get along with people easily.

Medical assistants perform routine administrative and clinical tasks in the offices and clinics of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors and optometrists. In small practices, they are "generalists," who handle both administrative and clinical duties and report directly to an office manager, physician,or other health practitioner. Those in large practices tend to specialize in a particular area under the supervision of department administrators.

Diploma - Medical Billing & Coding

A medical billing and coding professional is one who likes the medical field, but prefers to work not with patients, but with patients' data.

Medical billing and coding specialists assemble patient info by first making sure their medical charts are complete. They ensure that all forms are completed, and that all necessary information is in the computer, and may communicate with physicians to get more information. They also use computers to tabulate and analyze data to help improve patient care, control costs, for use in legal actions, in response to surveys or for use in research.

This type of individual is responsible, organized and can retain large amounts of information. They multi-task well, enjoy reading and like to use the computer.

Diploma - Pharmacy Technician

Pharmacy Technicians provide clinical and administrative support that enable today’s busy pharmacies to work more efficiently than ever before.

The Pharmacy Technician Diploma program offered at Anthem Institute—Las Vegas provides extensive hands-on training for students preparing to enter the pharmacy technician field.

Courses focus on pharmacy technician operations, including professionalism, state and federal law, and ethical issues. Students take courses in IV basics, chemotherapy, antibiotics, body systems, and cardiovascular and central nervous system pharmacology. They are taught to prepare IV, compounded, and unit-dosages and fill prescription orders for review by a registered pharmacist.

Diploma - Surgical Technologist

Surgical technologists are key members of surgery teams who provide pre- and post-operative services as well as assistance during actual surgery.

The Surgical Technologist program, also called Surgical Technology at some campuses, teaches students the fundamentals of anatomy and physiology they need to know for their careers. They are introduced to operating room environments and receive hands-on training in sterilization techniques and instrumentation set-up, and learn about surgical instruments and supplies. Students are also trained in basic surgical skills and laboratory procedures that support OR functions.

Students in the more advanced program take additional coursework that covers medical terminology, computer applications, and health law and ethics, as well as general education classes.

After successfully completing all required coursework, students are placed in unpaid externships.

Surgical tech graduates are eligible for entry-level positions as surgical technologists, laboratory and delivery technicians, sterile processing technicians, or as private surgical scrubs.