Empire College

At Empire College, we believe that education is one of the most important assets that you will acquire during your lifetime. We also believe that our graduates' success is our legacy.

Since Empire's founding in 1961, thousands of successful graduates have developed and added to the College's reputation as a training institution that cares for its students and produces top graduates. Empire College is as successful as its graduates. Our reputation and ultimate growth are dependent upon producing high-caliber employees and placing them in meaningful employment. Over the past five years, Empire graduates have been placed in over 1500 companies, earning a combined income of more than $200,000,000!

The health care field is one of the nation's largest growth industries, and Sonoma County is no exception. Job prospects for graduates from Empire's medical programs are excellent.

Medical Assistant - Specialized Associate's Degree

Expand your potential for assumption of supervisory or management responsibilities within a medical setting through additional emphasis on communications, critical thinking, human relations, decision making, and other skills required of well-qualified medical personnel.

This program is designed to educate medical administrative assistants and clinical assistants with a solid foundation in both areas. The emphasis on administrative and clinical skills includes extensive instruction in medical terminology, medical insurance billing, medical office procedures, medical clinical procedures, as well as instruction in beginning medical transcription, basic anatomy and physiology, and pharmacology. In addition, a medical office management class is offered to increase the student's skills in standard management duties and patient information protection and privacy. Students will be instructed in various medical-related software to include data protection and transmission. A 125-hour externship is included.

Program Length: 7 quarters (17½ months)

Clinical Medical Assistant

Attain the clinical skills necessary for back office medical assisting positions in doctors' offices, hospitals (laboratories, EKG departments, and outpatient areas), private laboratories, and other medical institutions.

This program includes extensive instruction in medical terminology, medical office procedures, medical insurance billing, basic healthcare math, as well as instruction in basic anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology. In addition to clinical procedures, students participate in a 125-hour externship. Students completing this course are prepared for front or back office medical assisting positions in doctors' offices, hospitals (laboratories, EKG departments, and outpatient areas), private laboratories, and other medical institutions.

Program Length: 5 quarters (12 months - 50 weeks - daytime; 75 weeks evening)

Medical Administrative Assistant

Train for medical billing, booking of appointments, and interacting with patients. This program includes extensive instruction in medical terminology, medical office procedures, medical insurance billing, claims reimbursement, various medical-related software for data protection and data transmission, as well as instruction in basic anatomy and physiology.

Students completing this course are prepared for front office medical assistant positions in doctors' offices, hospitals, private laboratories, and other medical institutions or facilities requiring a medical background.

Program Length: 5 quarters (12 months - 50 weeks - daytime; 75 weeks evening)

Medical Coding and Billing Technician

Prepare for a specialty field which continues to expand. This course is designed to develop skills used in theory and practice of CPT (procedure codes), ICD-9-CM (diagnoses codes), and HCPCS codes for medical outpatient billing. In addition to coding procedures, students learn billing software programs, claims reimbursement, and various medical-related software for data protection and data transmission. Students completing this course are prepared for insurance billing positions in the health care outpatient industry.

Program Length: 4 quarters (9 months - 40 weeks - daytime; 60 weeks evening)

Medical Transcriptionist

Prepare to interpret and type medical records quickly and accurately. This specialty skill is increasingly in demand, and working conditions can be flexible.

This course in medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, word processing, medical insurance billing, and transcription prepares graduates for entry-level front office positions in medical facilities or as entry-level medical transcriptionists. Medical cases used in transcription include history and physicals, radiology, surgery, pathology, discharge summaries, and autopsies.

Program Length: 4 quarters (10 months)

Phlebotomy Technician

Empire College's Phlebotomy Technician program leads students towards certification as a California Certified Phlebotomy Technician I (CPT I). The program is approved by the State of California Department of Health Services.

Individuals who successfully complete the 100-hour, 11-week program will receive a certificate of completion from Empire College allowing them to sit for the National certification examination. Upon passing the National examination, graduates are eligible to apply to the State for CPT I certification.

Program length:100 hours (11 weeks)

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