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Overview
Medical office computer specialist/assistant is a program that prepares individuals to apply computer programming, troubleshooting, and information technology skills to the installation, maintenance, and upgrade of standard, customized, or proprietary medical software and associated hardware. includes instruction in computer programming, systems analysis, networking, telecommunications, medical records and informatics software applications, information technology, systems administration, computer security, and applicable regulations and certifications or licenses.
Highlights
School with the highest reported median starting salary ($64K) with a Certificate: McLennan Community College
Careers for program graduates
Following are recommended careers for people who earn medical office computer specialist/assistant degrees, with color indicating the most common education attained by other workers.
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Salary and Debt
How are students who recently completed a degree in medical office computer specialist/assistant doing?
Below is the distribution of starting salaries along with accumulated federal and private education loans across schools that offer a degree in the field health and medical administrative services, which includes
medical office computer specialist/assistant.
Careers
Recommended careers for those with a degree in this program
Those who study this degree may be prepared to work as:
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Explore schools that offer medical office computer specialist/assistant degrees and certificates
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The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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Related Programs
Top 10 similar programs
Following are related programs, ordered by those with the highest number of completions. You can explore a full list by pressing the more details button.
- Medical Insurance Coding Specialist/Coder
- Medical Administrative/Executive Assistant and Medical Secretary
- Health Information/Medical Records Technology/Technician
- Medical Insurance Specialist/Medical Biller
- Medical Office Assistant/Specialist
- Medical/Health Management and Clinical Assistant/Specialist
- Medical Reception/Receptionist
- Medical Transcription/Transcriptionist
- Medical Staff Services Technology/Technician
- Health/Medical Claims Examiner
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Careers for this program majors
this program is part of a larger collection of programs: Healthcare office support. Is there a different program that's close to this program that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
Gender
Gender of recent graduates
Of all people with any degree in medical office computer specialist/assistant earned in the last academic year, 80% were women.
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Context: Percentage women
This major has a higher percentage of women than 81% other programs.
Race/Origin
Race/Origin of recent graduates
Here is an overview of race/origin for all medical office computer specialist/assistant graduates from this last academic year.
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Asian
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Context: Percentage of Minority Graduates
Minority students comprise a higher percentage of graduates than in 89% of other programs.
