Central Penn College

Central Penn College’s new online sports management certificate enables sports fans to channel their craving for competition into a rewarding career in the fast-growing world of sports.

Program Outcomes:

• Learn about business practices, processes and tools of effective management in a broad array of companies within the sports industry
• Gain experience in the sports industry through class projects that solve real-world problems
• Understand how to effectively manage people, activities, and business operations, while learning how to react to the fact-paced, ever-changing world of sports.
• Develop and carry out leadership and coaching strategies that have proven successful in the sports arena and the corporate boardrooms.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge and understanding of the fundamental principles requisite to professional success in sports management.

Learn what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur. Take ideas to new heights by learning how to market, hire, develop a product, expand your clientele and profit margin, and more.

Students will take the following courses:

• Business Accounting
• Consumer Behavior
• Income Tax
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Principles of Marketing
• Principles of Management
• Business Law
• Finance

This 9-month program is perfect for people who want to learn business essentials fast, so they can either start their own business or make their current business even more successful.

The following courses will be completed during this program:

• Business Accounting
• Principles of Management
• Principles of Marketing
• Human Resources
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
• Consumer Behavior (elective - must take 1)
• Business Law (elective - must take 1)
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a Context of Crisis (elective - must take 1)

A New 9-Month Certificate Program

• 18 Credits
• 9 Months
• Online classes
• High-demand, healthcare career

What Does a Medical Billing Coder Do?

• Record and process patient data including treatment records, insurance information, bills and payments.
• Set-up payment plans for patients.
• Organize and verify patient records, bills and statements.
• Code patients’ diagnoses and requests payment from insurance companies or individuals.

Medical assistants are one of the unsung heroes of the healthcare profession. They are talented, versatile healthcare professionals who perform both clinical and administrative duties. They are often one of the first healthcare workers patients see and interact with when they visit a physician’s office.

12-Month Certificate Program:

• 12 Months
• 30 Credits
• Daytime, in-person classes in Summerdale
• High-demand, healthcare career

What does a Medical Assistant do?

• Rooming patients
• Checking and recording vital signs
• Taking a complete medical history of the patient
• Administering medications
• Assisting the provider with minor office procedures
• Drawing blood
• Scheduling referral appointments for patients

At Central Penn, you’ll learn from experts in the field about everything from bedside manners to patient care. This degree program will help you gain the skills necessary to work in a variety of healthcare facilities and assist doctors.

Students will take the following courses during this degree program:

• Medical Terminology and Pharmacology
• Essentials of Anatomy
• Medical Insurance
• Allied Health Procedures
• Diseases and Diagnostic Methods
• Clinical Techniques
• Medical Laboratory

By taking just six courses over three terms and 18 months, students can enter this high-demand field. Work as a dental assistant in a clean, quiet health care environment, performing chairside and related dental office and lab procedures. As a friendly face and a steady hand, students will greet patients and help with:

• Scheduling appointments.
• Handling billing and payments.
• Managing and maintaining patient records.
• Sterilizing instruments.
• Preparing patients and the dentist’s work area.
• Assisting dentists during procedures when needed.
• Using the suction hose during procedures.
• Processing x-rays.

This postsecondary certificate is part of the Medical Assisting associate degree. A Phlebotomy Technician could work at a hospital, diagnostic laboratory, blood donor center or private medical office.

Students in this program will take the following courses:

• Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology I & II
• Medical Terminology and Pharmacology
• Allied Health Procedures
• Medical Law and Ethics
• Medical Laboratory

The Surgical Technician Associate program provides students with the technical knowledge and skills required for employment as a member of an operating room healthcare team in a hospital or surgical center.

The Surgical Technician Associate Program will provide students with training in essential healthcare skills, surgical instrumentation, anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, patient care, surgical pharmacology and microbiology. Students will complete observation experiences as well as a 120-case internship at the conclusion of the program.