LIFE SCIENCES
Certificate Programs
Option 3 - Medical Secretary This is a program designed to prepare students for secretarial positions in health care institutions and medical offices. The medical secretary is frequently required to have technician or nursing training in addition to other secretarial skills.
SUBJECT& NO.	COURSE	UNITS
ANATOMY 1	Introduction to Human Anatomy	4
BUS 38	Business Computations	3
CO SCI 233	Data Management for Microcomputers I	4
HIT 100	Health Information Technology Survey	3
HIT 106	Hospital Ethics and Law	2
HIT 133	Medical Terminology	3
HIT 105	Health Information In Alternate Healthcare Settings	2
CAOT 1	Typewriting/Keyboarding I	1
CAOT 3*	Typewriting III	3
CAOT 11*	Shorthand II	3
CAOT 21*	Medical Secretarial Procedures I	5
CAOT 31	Business English	3
CAOT 32*	Business Communications	3
	Cooperative Education	4
PSYCH 1	General Psychology I	3
Four to six units from among the following:		4-6
ANATOMY 1	Introduction to Human Anatomy
BIOLOGY 20*	Human Anatomy and Physiology
BIOLOGY 50	Allied Health Issues - Under Represented Minority Populations
or
ALD HTH 50	Allied Health Issues - Under Represented Minority Populations
CHEM 51	Fundamentals of Chemistry
HIT 234*	Introduction to Pathology
MICRO 20*	General Microbiology
CAOT 23*	Legal Secretarial Procedures I
CAOT 33	Records Management and Filing
CAOT 34	Business Vocabulary and Spelling
CAOT 39*	Word Processing - Microsoft Word
ENGLISH	One of English 61-65, or 101
	Total	50-52
*This course has a prerequisite.