Prepare for an Exciting New Career at Kaplan Career Institute - Dearborn

At Kaplan Career Institute - Dearborn, you can train for one of many satisfying careers in just a matter of months. Our programs are designed with your future in mind. Every classroom and field experience provides the real-world skills and hands-on training you need, bringing you a step closer to your new career every day. Stop working for a living; start working toward your career.

Personalized Services Make it Easy.

• Financial aid for those who qualify
• Both day and evening classes
• Small class sizes
• Career placement assistance

Dental Assistant - Diploma

The demand for quality dental care is high and will continue to increase for many years. As a result, dentists are in need of dental assistants more than ever before. In fact, dental assisting is projected to be one of the fastest-growing occupations through 2014.

Professional Duties

A dental assistant provides essential services for the dentist at the chair side, in the business office, and in the office laboratory. Since the duties of a dental assistant are so diverse, Kaplan Career Institute provides an opportunity to learn a broad range of skills, including:

• Caring for patients in the treatment room
• Taking dental X-rays
• Taking impressions of patients' teeth
• Teaching preventive dentistry to patients
• Assisting with oral surgery
• Performing oral evacuation

Innovative Learning

Kaplan Career Institute's dental assistant courses are designed to give you real-world knowledge in a hands-on learning environment. Our goal is to prepare you with the necessary technical skills needed for an entry-level position as a dental assistant.

Professional Paths

As a dental assistant, you will enjoy career opportunities in places such as private dental practices, dental laboratories, community dental health clinics, public schools, and state and federal health facilities.

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Medical Office Specialist - Diploma

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As a medical office specialist, you will play a key role in running an efficient, profitable office and performing tasks such as bookkeeping and preparing medical charts. With the growth and aging of the nation's population, you can enter the field knowing that the career you have chosen will be of great importance for years to come.

What You'll Learn

Become an integral part of the medical team. As a student of our Medical Office Specialist Diploma program, you will learn the skills specific to the needs of Detroit's health care practitioners. Our programs are designed to give you real-world knowledge and offer the instruction you need to succeed as a medical office specialist. At Kaplan Career Institute, you will learn about:

• Basic human anatomy
• Medical terminology
• Medical insurance
• Medical records, billings and collections
• Appointment scheduling
• Medical ethics
• Public relations

Daily Activities

The duties of a medical office specialist focus on keeping the medical office running smoothly. You can learn to perform a broad range of daily administrative activities such as:

• Processing medical records
• Using industry-related computer equipment
• Providing and entering valuable data
• Determining insurance benefits, processing claims and obtaining settlements
• Billing and scheduling patients
• Preparing medical charts, reports and correspondence from dictation
• Bookkeeping for payroll, tax reports and accounts payable/receivable

Personal Satisfaction

Medical office specialists are vital to delivering excellent health care to patients. As a medical office specialist graduate from Kaplan Career Institute, you could have the ability to help make a difference in people's lives, by contributing to the operation of the medical office. Help yourself while helping others; start on the path to a fulfilling career.