You might be eyeing health work from an office job, or already on a clinic desk and ready for more. This diploma covers reception, medical terms and typing up records, the three skills the role runs on.
Medical practices hire people who can run a desk and speak the language. This course covers both, and the career centre helps with your CV and the interview.
Already good at office work? Medical terms, patient records, ACC and Medtech are what set a medical secretary apart from a general one. That is what you learn here.
Fully online, self paced, no exams. You can keep working while you build the skills, with tutors a phone call away when you get stuck.
Medical admin work runs through practices, clinics and health services, and every one needs the desk to run well. The day is easy to picture: answering phones, booking patients in, keeping records straight, and typing up notes the doctor can rely on.
The role the course is built around: reception, records, medical terms and transcription in one job.
Keeping a clinic's admin running, where patient records and communication skills carry the day.
Maintaining patient records accurately, a topic covered directly in the reception certificate.
Supporting the person who runs the practice, across admin, records and the front desk.
Organising the patient side of a service, from bookings to follow-up.
Looking after health records and the systems that hold them.
Typing up medical records as a job in itself. A whole certificate in here covers it.
Running a medical office day to day, once you know every part of how it works.
Focused work on clinical records, built on the terms and typing skills.
Leading the front desk team, with service skills and records knowledge behind you.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Supervisor and team leader roles usually come after time on the desk.
Three certificates and thirty-three topics, from the front desk to the transcript.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Medical reception, medical terminology, then medical transcription. One enrolment covers the whole medical secretary skill set.
Working with ACC and an introduction to Medtech are in the reception certificate. The systems New Zealand practices run on, not generic office software.
Ten topics walk through the body, system by system. You learn to read and use the words a practice runs on.
From listening and grammar through to formatting, checking your work and discharge summaries. The whole craft of typing up records.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Finish the diploma and the college awards you its Certificate of Achievement.
You earn Continuing Professional Development credits when you finish, so the study counts on your record.
Your certificate comes with a SEEK Pass link, so you can share it on SEEK where employers look.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the three certificates online at your own pace, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None needed. The course starts with the role of a receptionist and builds the medical terms from scratch, so you can come from any kind of work.
The plan is $29 a week. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 250 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work.
One enrolment, one course. It is built as three certificates: medical reception, then medical terminology, then medical transcription. You work through them at your own pace.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For medical reception and admin work it is no barrier: practices hire on whether the desk runs well with you on it.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the practice where the phones, the bookings and the records all run because you are on the desk. One enquiry starts it.