CDI College

CDI College is Canada's national career-training leader in three core areas--business, technology and health care--with over 250,000 graduates and alumni and 100+ years' combined experience in providing focused, relevant career training. Our learning system is based on the top two methods of training for adult learners. Our instructor expertise provides informative and current, lecture-based education, while our competency-based training provides the relevant skill development for your chosen career. This winning combination prepares our graduates to meet, and surpass, the demands of today's employers.

Why Choose CDI College?

With over 30 years of experience in providing high quality Diploma education in business, technology and health care specific curriculum, the CDI College solution is the superior choice. You will benefit from these unique attributes when you start your career transition with CDI College:

• We prepare you for the real world through a practical, fast-paced, deadline-driven learning experience in three schools of learning: business, technology and health care.
• We have over 30 community-based locations across Canada. There's one near you!
• Our instructors facilitate, mentor and coach you in a supportive learning environment.
• Morning, afternoon and evening sessions make it possible for you to balance your education with your other responsibilities in life.
• CDI College graduates receive one of the most intensive job search modules available anywhere in North America.
• Hundreds of employers hire thousands of CDI College graduates every year. With over 30 years of graduates, we have a high alumni factor--CDI College graduates hiring CDI College graduates.
• Our name is recognized and respected by employers across Canada.
• CDI College is part of CDI Education Corporation, one of Canada's largest 500 companies.

Dental Programs

Intra-Oral Dental Assistant

This diploma program is both comprehensive and intensive. Dental assistants prepare treatment rooms and patients for treatment and assist dentists during treatment. This includes preparing and manipulating dental materials, performing infection control procedures and applying rubber dams. They also instruct patients on oral care.

Those dental assistants who have successfully completed a recognized program may perform additional duties under a dentist's direct supervision. They may expose, process and mount dental radiographs. They may polish teeth and apply topical fluoride and topical anesthetic. They may also take impressions of the teeth, apply fissure sealants and perform some orthodontic procedures.

Dental assistants may also have office clerical duties. These include maintaining patient records, scheduling patient appointments, collecting patient and insurance accounts, and ordering dental office supplies.

Massage Therapy

The Massage Therapy program has been designed to prepare students to take the Registration Examinations of the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario (CMTO). The material in the program is therefore consistent with the required knowledge and skills as outlined by the CMTO. The program's primary goal is to provide learning opportunities that promote basic knowledge, skills, ethics and behaviors that will enable the graduate to successfully practice massage therapy in a variety of health care settings.

Medical Programs

Medical Administrative Assistant

The Medical Administrative program facilitates the development of clerical skills and introduces students to clinical procedures, Alberta Health Care billing transactions, medical transcription and medical terminology. The 900-hour program combines lectures, hands-on learning via practical exercises, projects and exam, group discussions, on-line progress checks for immediate feedback, and courseware that is easy to understand.

The Medical Administrative Assistant program prepares graduates for an exciting and fast-paced career in health care. Employment opportunities exist for graduates in medical clinics, specialists' offices, insurance companies and acute or extended care hospitals. Placement assistance is available through our Employment Services Department.

Pharmacy Technician

This comprehensive program prepares individuals to achieve competency in the skills and theoretical knowledge necessary to enter the pharmacy environment as a pharmacy technician. Emphasizing a customer-centered approach, this program also helps develop the proper attitude and sense of responsibility necessary for success in the progressive field of pharmacy.

Information

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