Concorde Career Institute
4202 West Spruce
Tampa, FL 33607

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.

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.

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.

Pharmacy Technician
As a pharmacy technician, you will fill prescriptions in a variety of medical environments including hospitals, medical clinics and retail and institutional pharmacies. Your work involves performing pharmaceutical stock keeping, delivery, technical assistance and clerical duties.

Examples of duties you will perform are: assisting pharmacists in filling prescriptions, assisting pharmacists in preparing drugs for unit-dose delivery, reconstituting sterile medications, preparing intravenous (IV) mixtures for patient administration, preparing IV chemotherapy drugs, entering prescriptions into a computer to obtain labels, ensuring information, such as drug generic name, expiration date, and lot number are properly recorded on labels and log records for repackaged drugs, reviewing stock orders and replenishing supplies and conducting physical inventories.

As a graduate of the program, you will be prepared to sit for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board (PTCB) certification exam.

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).

Located just three miles from Tampa International Airport and a half mile from I-275, Concorde's Tampa campus is easily accessible to the entire Tampa Bay area including Clearwater, St. Petersburg and Sarasota. The campus is in the heart of metropolitan Tampa with its nearby beaches, Busch Gardens and home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.