Concorde Career Institute
10933 Marks Way
Miramar, FL 33025

The following programs are available:

Dental Assistant *
At Concorde you will receive "multi-tasked" training, which means you will be trained in both clinical and administrative capabilities.

Clinical responsibilities include sterilizing and preparing instrument trays, exposing and processing X-rays, conducting oral inspections, preparing patients for treatment and taking vital signs. Administrative responsibilities include patient charting, appointment setting, completing insurance forms, accounts payable and fee collections.

Insurance Coding & Billing Specialist
In your position as an Insurance Coding & Billing Specialist, you play an integral role in your employer's office. You help make it possible for your employer to collect monetary reimbursements from patient insurance providers.

You will assess patient records and classify levels of claims for reimbursement using detailed healthcare coding systems. Your work is essential to the success of your employer's medical business.

Medical Assistant *
As a medical assistant, you will be an integral part of the healthcare delivery team. In this position, you are considered a "multi-tasked" provider. This means you will be trained and qualified in both clinical and administrative capabilities.

Medical assistants work closely with doctors in clinics and physicians' offices. You will be entrusted with a variety of critical responsibilities.

Administrative skills and responsibilities include scheduling and receiving patients, preparing and maintaining medical records, performing basic secretarial skills and medical transcription, handling telephone calls and written correspondence, serving as a liaison between physicians and other individuals and managing practice finances.

Clinical responsibilities include taking patient histories and vital signs, performing first aid and CPR, preparing patients for procedures, assisting the physician with examinations and treatments, infection control, collecting and processing specimens, performing selected diagnostic tests and preparing and administering medications as directed by the physician.

Patient Care Technician
As a patient care technician, you will work closely with doctors and other medical professionals in monitoring the condition of your patients. You will use your technical knowledge to provide direct patient care including phlebotomy (blood work) and EKGs. Your responsibilities will include monitoring patients for changes in condition and recording and reporting those changes, setting up and operating therapeutic equipment, instructing and supervising patients about rehabilitative therapy, helping to carry out planned patient care programs, and assisting medical staff in changing dressings and conducting patient examinations.

Surgical Technologist
As a surgical technologist, you perform essential tasks before, during and after operations. You work closely with surgeons, anesthesiologists, registered nurses and other key surgical personnel in hospital operating rooms and outpatient surgery centers. Surgical technologists play a critical role in patient care.

Graduates will be eligible to sit for the national examination leading to the Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) credential as sponsored by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (NBSTSA) formerly known as the Liaison Council on Certification for the Surgical Technologist (LCC-ST).

*High school Diploma not required