Kaplan Career Institute

Education for the real world

The secret to having the flourishing career you've always wished for is having the right education - a Kaplan Career Institute education. To help you meet your goals, Kaplan Career Institute provides a real-world education that focuses on the proper training, knowledge and technical skills you will need to start a new career. Start your career with one of our associate degrees or one of our certificate or diploma programs. Our learning environment is different from all others.

Success Starts Here

At Kaplan Career Institute, we conduct economical, career-oriented programs that not only satisfy requirements of the career market, but also accommodate the demands of your full schedule. Day and evening classes are available to suit your busy lifestyle. You can earn a diploma in 9 months or an associate degree in less than 2 years. Our faculty of experienced professionals will give you an in-depth review of the most current job trends in some of today's fastest growing. exciting fields.

Stand Out to Employers

To reach your career milestones in a demanding job market, you must distinguish yourself from everyone else. At Kaplan Career Institute, you can gain the knowledge, training and technical skills you need to land a career in the field of your dreams. Advance yourself towards economic security and a rewarding career. Kaplan Career Institute can get you on track to have a great career with limitless opportunities at your disposal.

Medical Assistant: Diploma

Unique opportunities for medical assistants continue to flourish because of the increasing need for quality healthcare. Because of the country's population that is aging, and the continuous advances in technology, the need for qualified, skilled professionals in the medical field has never been greater.

With all of these changes happening, medical assisting is predicted to be one of the quickest growing occupations in the country through 2014.

Focused Medical Assistant Education

Make an impression on local employers. The Medical Assistant Diploma program at Kaplan Institute emphasizes skills that are in demand by Detroit employers today to secure a position as a health care practitioner. Our medical assistant classes follow an innovative curriculum that is taught by faculty members who possess professional experience in their industries. Each faculty has the requisite qualifications to teach you relevant and critical job knowledge as well as the required technical skills.

Medical Assistant Duties

Medical assistants may also perform other duties besides supporting the doctor. The main roles they perform are to help maintain an organized office for maximum efficiency, as well as provide support to the physician.

At Kaplan Career Institute, you will be trained in how to perform a wide range of routine activities, such as:

• Assisting in minor surgical procedures
• Administering EKG's
• Recording the vital signs
• Performing venipuncture
• Giving Injections
• Implementing standard accounting procedures.

Personal Satisfaction

In your role as a medical assistant graduate from Kaplan Career Institute, you can give the support required to deliver outstanding healthcare to patients. Don't procrastinate any longer. You will be rewarded by assisting other people as well as yourself.

Business Administration: Medical Assisting Management

Associate in Specialized Business

Because of the ever-increasing number of medical assistants that are required to care for our country's aging population, medical assistants with training in management will have the edge when looking for management and supervisory employment positions. The ICM Campus of Kaplan Career Institute is a great location for you to acquire the medical assisting management training you need.

What Subjects Will You Master?

Aside from the core courses offered to you in our medical assistant program, the business administration: medical assisting management program affords you the chance to learn skills that will ready you for managerial roles. You will have courses in business and personnel management, medical coding and insurance, computer programs, and business communication. With our medical assistant management and patient care services programs you can further specialize your career.

Before graduation, it is necessary to gain on-the-job experience by completing an externship.

Medical Assisting Management with Patient Care Services

Associate in Specialized Business. Interacting with patients in a medical setting, like a hospital or nursing home requires you to have specialized patient care skills that working in a doctor's office or clinic may not require. Get the skills you need through Kaplan Career Institute-ICM campus' medical assisting management with patient care services program.

Career Training

You will take the same primary courses that are required in our medical assisting management program. You will also take an additional five courses that emphasize patient care skills. The courses are:

• Standard Patient Service Skills
• Patient Care and Safety
• Restorative Care
• Home Health and Special Care Services
• Gerontology

Before graduation you will have to complete an externship to obtain the real-world job experience that you will need.

Pharmacy Technician Schools

Pharmacy Technician: Diploma

The pharmaceutical field encompasses interesting career options that can open up a great professional future. As a result of the rise in the senior citizens population, pharmacy technicians are in ever increasing demand. By 2014, employment for pharmacy technicians is expected to grow at a faster than average rate compared to all other occupations.

Pharmacy Technician Education

Train at Kaplan Career Institute and become a pharmacy technician. Our Pharmacy Technician Diploma program is conducted by well qualified faculty members whose sole objective is to help you distinguish yourself from other applicants in the job market. Our educators understand the requirements of the job market, so they can help you to use our innovative curriculum to develop the interpersonal and communications skills pharmacists want to see. You will graduate with the skills you need to be successful as a pharmacy technician.

What You Will Learn

Pharmacy technicians have a variety of responsibilities assisting in all areas of pharmacy operations. Classroom learning and hands-on experience prepare you to fulfill all of these responsibilities. Kaplan Career Institute's pharmacy technician classes provide you with real-world knowledge, training you in such daily activities as:

• Transcribing doctor's orders
• Pricing and filling prescriptions
• Preparing unit dose medications, IV mixtures and sterile irrigations
• Selecting, dispensing, refilling and labeling medications
• Processing insurance claims
• Maintaining patient records
• Assisting with quality assurance

Personal Satisfaction

At Kaplan Career Institute, we want to help you start a rewarding pharmaceutical career with a bright future. Upon your completion of the Kaplan Career Institute's pharmacy technician program, you will possess the ability to change the lives of people in the way it matters most -- with their health. You will have the ability to help patients take good care of themselves by giving them proper medication. Enjoy a career as a pharmacy assistant and feel good about yourself by helping others.

What Courses Will You Choose?

Your courses will consist of classroom and lab training, covering a wide range of topics directly related to professions in the pharmaceutical industry, including:

• Hospital and retail pharmacy and prescription order processing
• Pharmacology and the vascular, apocrine, motor, nervous and absorption systems
• Pharmacy law, regulations and business operations
• Preparation of sterile products, including IVs and compounds.

Career Responsibilities

The pharmacy technician syllabus has been specifically developed to prepare you to work under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist. Besides preparing, dispensing and labeling medications, your work may involve communicating with physicians to get refill approval, transcribing physicians' orders and hospital charts, and updating patients' information in a database.

Real-World Externship

Kaplan Career Institute focuses on the practical training and experience that will help make you ready for employment immediately after graduation. Before you receive your diploma from Kaplan Career Institute, you will complete an externship at an approved retail, hospital, or residential pharmacy or other pharmaceutical facility in the Cleveland area. You will obtain real-world experience by interacting with medical professionals through our externship program.

Prepare for Certification Exams

Our program will help you prepare for the Pharmacy Technician Certification exam (PTCE) sponsored by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB).

Pharmacy Technician: Diploma

The pharmaceutical field encompasses interesting career options that can open up a great professional future. As a result of the rise in the senior citizens population, pharmacy technicians are in ever increasing demand. By 2014, employment for pharmacy technicians is expected to grow at a faster than average rate compared to all other occupations.

Pharmacy Technician Education

Train at Kaplan Career Institute and become a pharmacy technician. Our Pharmacy Technician Diploma program is conducted by well qualified faculty members whose sole objective is to help you distinguish yourself from other applicants in the job market. Our educators understand the requirements of the job market, so they can help you to use our innovative curriculum to develop the interpersonal and communications skills pharmacists want to see. You will graduate with the skills you need to be successful as a pharmacy technician.

What You Will Learn

Pharmacy technicians have a variety of responsibilities assisting in all areas of pharmacy operations. Classroom learning and hands-on experience prepare you to fulfill all of these responsibilities. Kaplan Career Institute's pharmacy technician classes provide you with real-world knowledge, training you in such daily activities as:

• Transcribing doctor's orders
• Pricing and filling prescriptions
• Preparing unit dose medications, IV mixtures and sterile irrigations
• Selecting, dispensing, refilling and labeling medications
• Processing insurance claims
• Maintaining patient records
• Assisting with quality assurance

Personal Satisfaction

At Kaplan Career Institute, we want to help you start a rewarding pharmaceutical career with a bright future. Upon your completion of the Kaplan Career Institute's pharmacy technician program, you will possess the ability to change the lives of people in the way it matters most -- with their health. You will have the ability to help patients take good care of themselves by giving them proper medication. Enjoy a career as a pharmacy assistant and feel good about yourself by helping others.

What Courses Will You Choose?

Your courses will consist of classroom and lab training, covering a wide range of topics directly related to professions in the pharmaceutical industry, including:

• Hospital and retail pharmacy and prescription order processing
• Pharmacology and the vascular, apocrine, motor, nervous and absorption systems
• Pharmacy law, regulations and business operations
• Preparation of sterile products, including IVs and compounds.

Career Responsibilities

The pharmacy technician syllabus has been specifically developed to prepare you to work under the direct supervision of a registered pharmacist. Besides preparing, dispensing and labeling medications, your work may involve communicating with physicians to get refill approval, transcribing physicians' orders and hospital charts, and updating patients' information in a database.

Real-World Externship

Kaplan Career Institute focuses on the practical training and experience that will help make you ready for employment immediately after graduation. Before you receive your diploma from Kaplan Career Institute, you will complete an externship at an approved retail, hospital, or residential pharmacy or other pharmaceutical facility in the Cleveland area. You will obtain real-world experience by interacting with medical professionals through our externship program.

Prepare for Certification Exams

Our program will help you prepare for the Pharmacy Technician Certification exam (PTCE) sponsored by the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB).

Phlebotomy/EKG Technician

It is vital that a health care phlebotomy/EKG technician perform work to help doctors accurately diagnoses and treats patients. The results of tests performed by a phlebotomy/EKG technician contribute toward the accurate diagnosis and treatment of patients. Their skills in collecting important information is essential to physicians, hospitals, clinics, and labs. If your goal is to be a candidate for work in this interesting field, then our Phlebotomy/EKG Technician Diploma program will help you meet that goal.

Students who graduate from this program will have developed the knowledge and technical skills necessary to perform specific job functions which frequently involve: performing venipuncture by vacutainer, butterfly and syringe methods; collecting capillary blood; performing electrocardiography with basic interpretations; and assisting with infection control, minor laboratory testing, medical record documentation, and data entry.

The program helps students get ready to take the Registered Phlebotomy Technician (RPT) exam sponsored by the National Allied Health Test Registry, a division of the National Association for Health Professionals (NAHP).*

Phlebotomy/EKG Technician Program Features

Our program prepares students for a variety of entry-level phlebotomy/EKG technician positions by providing:

• Hands-on technical and clinical courses
• Instruction in phlebotomy procedures and electrocardiography techniques
• Assistance in preparation for certification exams
• Assistance with job placement

Potential Career Opportunities

Students completing the Phlebotomy/EKG Technician Diploma program are eligible for entry-level employment opportunities such as:

• Phlebotomist
• EKG technician
• Lab assistant
• Lab aide
• Hospital donor unit assistant

Medical Office Administration

Kaplan Career Institute offers associate's degrees and diploma programs in six states, including Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas. Kaplan Career Institute is part of the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, which consists of more than 70 schools nationwide. Kaplan Career Institute leverages the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation resources and curriculum to prepare students for new careers in a variety of industries.

Students at Kaplan Career Institute can complete both diploma and associate's degree programs in several in-demand industries. Students can complete programs in medical assisting, dental assistant, medical billing and coding, medical office specialist, pharmacy technician, and other fields such as business, criminal justice, legal, and information technology. Programs vary by campus, so students should contact their local Kaplan Career Institute campus to determine which areas of study are available.

Kaplan Career Institute focuses on providing students with the essential skills for their industry. This includes a hands-on learning environment that helps students master equipment, technology, communications skills, and specific career-related skills that they'll need to begin their new jobs. A Kaplan Career Institute education prepares students for entry-level positions in their career of choice.

Graduates of Kaplan Career Institute can utilize the Career Services staff for help with post-graduate life. Career Services can help students learn how to write cover letters and resumes, how to improve interview skills, and how to make a positive impression on an employer. Kaplan Career Institute invites students to keep information up-to-date and contact Career Services at any point during their career: when looking for help finding another job, or moving on to more challenging positions in their careers.

Students at Kaplan Career Institute may be eligible for state and federal financial aid. Students should complete the FAFSA to determine financial aid eligibility. Kaplan also accepts educational loans, work-study programs, and scholarships.

Kaplan Career Institute offers associate's degrees and diploma programs in six states, including Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas. Kaplan Career Institute is part of the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation, which consists of more than 70 schools nationwide. Kaplan Career Institute leverages the Kaplan Higher Education Corporation resources and curriculum to prepare students for new careers in a variety of industries.

Students at Kaplan Career Institute can complete both diploma and associate's degree programs in several in-demand industries. Students can complete programs in medical assisting, dental assistant, medical billing and coding, medical office specialist, pharmacy technician, and other fields such as business, criminal justice, legal, and information technology. Programs vary by campus, so students should contact their local Kaplan Career Institute campus to determine which areas of study are available.

Kaplan Career Institute focuses on providing students with the essential skills for their industry. This includes a hands-on learning environment that helps students master equipment, technology, communications skills, and specific career-related skills that they'll need to begin their new jobs. A Kaplan Career Institute education prepares students for entry-level positions in their career of choice.

Graduates of Kaplan Career Institute can utilize the Career Services staff for help with post-graduate life. Career Services can help students learn how to write cover letters and resumes, how to improve interview skills, and how to make a positive impression on an employer. Kaplan Career Institute invites students to keep information up-to-date and contact Career Services at any point during their career: when looking for help finding another job, or moving on to more challenging positions in their careers.

Students at Kaplan Career Institute may be eligible for state and federal financial aid. Students should complete the FAFSA to determine financial aid eligibility. Kaplan also accepts educational loans, work-study programs, and scholarships.

Dental Assistant: Diploma

Professional Duties

Necessary services for the dentist are provided at the chair side, in the business office, and in the office laboratory by a dental assistant. Kaplan Career Institute offers you not just book learning but a thorough training in the many diverse practical skills a dental assistant needs. Those skills include helping putting patients at ease, teaching them how to take care of their dental needs at home, helping the dentist at chairside with oral surgery and evacuations, doing tasks such as cleaning teeth, taking dental impressions and x-rays.

Innovative Learning

Kaplan Career Institute provides a hands-on learning environment to give you the real-world knowledge and skills you will need as a dental assistant. To prepare you with the essential skills required for an entry-level position as a dental assistant is our main aim.

Professional Paths

Career opportunities in places such as private dental practices, dental laboratories, community dental health clinics, public schools, and state and federal health facilities are open to you by working as a dental assistant.

List of education programs offered by Kaplan Career Institute