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Certificate Course Qualified Medical Assistant

This certificate course provides an approved and ground-breaking additional qualification for care workers, especially with special qualifications in anaesthesia and intensive care. Advanced and appropriate acute and intensive care has become impossible without trained and specialised care workers. Politicians are more and more demanding qualified, non-physician healthcare specialists for delegated medical services. Here, large-scale coverage and performance-based salaries are of great significance.

The certificate course will prepare you for your daily tasks in acute and intensive care work environments and will pave your way to an academic degree. The curriculum features more than ten years of experience gathered by the “Herz- und Gefäßklinik” (Specialised Clinic for Coronary and Vascular Diseases) in Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale, where Qualified Medical Assistants are a vital part of the team working in the intensive care unit.

At a glance

Type of course: Certificate course

Admission requirements: Yes (see below)

Language of instruction: German

Diploma: Academic certificate 60 ECTS

Start: Winter semester 2017

Duration: 18 months, extra-occupational

FHWS Location: Würzburg/Bad Neustadt an der Saale

Faculty: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (FAS)

Costs: €8,700 (full programme: Modules 1 - 4); It is possible to take single modules

Course Details

We focus on healthcare workers and nurses specialised in anaesthesia and intensive care, who want to acquire new skills on an academic basis and take on advanced medical tasks.
For certain module parts and qualifications, a specialisation in anaesthesia and intensive care is not mandatory.

Admission Requirements

  • Relevant vocational training and work experience in the healthcare sector (e.g. as a nurse).
  • For single modules, participants from business or technical sectors are also welcome (e.g. perfusionists)

or

  • University degree, followed by appropriate professional experience

  • Module 1 Basic Skills in Leadership and Organisation

  • Module 2 Basic Medical Skills and Emergency Care

  • Module 3 Basic and Advanced Skills in Intensive Care

  • Module 4 Scientific Work / Examination Module

When the final examinations of modules and the project work are completed successfully, you will receive an Academic Certificate with 60 ECTS credits. For completing single modules, you will receive a record of attendance with the corresponding ECTS, a Certificate of Specialisation (as “MPG” specialist in accordance with the Medical Devices Act, QM Coach, QM Specialist, Specialist for Sedation and Emergency Management in Endoscopy, Assistant in Algesiology, ACLS Provider of AHA).

Please use our online application form to submit your application documents for participating in the certificate course “Qualified Medical Assistant”.

Your contact for the certificate course “Qualified Medical Assistant”:

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Marina Wetterich
Room R.0.05
Randersackerer Str. 15
97072 Würzburg
Phone +49 931 3511-8475
E-mail: marina.wetterich[at]fhws.de