Clinical Procedures I Syllabus

INSTRUCTOR REQUIREMENTS

• Attendance is mandatory for this class due to the fact it is a skills level class.  I am preparing you to go out on your externship and to be productive medical assistants upon graduation. 
• If you miss a class, you have no more than 1 week, upon returning to school, to get your missed assignments and provide them back to me.  This includes daily assignments that are not due during class time (in-class assignments), tests, and any skill check-offs that were done while you were absent.  It is the students’ responsibility to get the assignments, I will not remind you.
• Please place your cell phone on silent or vibrate.  It is disruptive to the class to have cell phones ring during lecture.  Also, texting is not allowed during class time or during testing.  The texter cannot concentrate on what is going on during the lecture and students around the texter cannot concentrate due to the disruption. If a student is caught with a cell phone out during testing, it is an automatic fail on the test.  Please put away until after the test is finished.
• Sleeping is not allowed during class time.  If a student falls asleep, for whatever reason (up all night with sick child, worked night shift, etc.), they will be asked to leave the class.  This is a disruption and the student is not benefitting from the lecture.  Please come to class prepared. 
• ​​​​​Please arrive to class on time and be prepared for that day’s material.  Excessive tardiness is very disruptive to class.  We are only allotted so much time to cover a variety of material.  Coming into the class late disrupts that time and disrupts the class from paying attention to the material being given.  I do not back up and cover material that has been missed.  It is the student’s responsibility to get themselves caught up with the rest of the class.
• Children are not permitted in the classroom.  Some of the material is not child appropriate.  Also it is unfair to expect a child to sit quietly for an hour and 10 minute to an hour and 40 minute class.  Please make arrangements for childcare prior to class. 

METHOD OF EVALUATION: 

Students’ grades will be determined by their average grade in each of six areas.  Each area will then be based on the following schedule:

Procedure grades*                                                      *varied

Unit tests                                                                     100 points (2 total for 200 points)

Uniform grade            **                                              100 points

Final Exam (date to be announced at a later time)   100 points

*All procedure check-offs have to be completed by the end of the quarter.  Failure to do a procedure check-off could result in a failing grade for the class or an incomplete for the class. 

**The uniform grade consists of the student wearing appropriate attire for the class.  All Medical Assisting students are required to wear medical scrubs during their Clinical classes.  The scrubs are to be kept clean and free of tears, stains, excessive wrinkles, and fit properly.  Tennis shoes can also be worn with the uniform but they also have to be clean and free of tears. Failure to wear appropriate attire could result in a lower grade.