More about the CHCP South San Antonio Campus
Our South San Antonio Campus features healthcare programs to help you to begin your career as a Dental Assistant, Medical Assistant, Medical Coding & Billing Specialist, Health and Medical Administrative Services, or Pharmacy Tech.
San Antonio is a fast growing, young city with a lot to offer to students seeking a career in the healthcare field. San Antonio's 35 hospitals and numerous healthcare facilities provide plenty of opportunity for healthcare professionals to grow. South San Antonio is our second campus in the city. It features programs to help you earn a degree or certificate to begin a rewarding healthcare career in as little as nine months. Through our externship program, you will have the opportunity to gain valuable professional experience by working alongside healthcare professionals. We have dozens of local healthcare employers ready to welcome externship students to the world of administrative and clinical healthcare.
Located in the Mayan Shopping Center at I-35 and SW Military Dr., CHCP’s South San Antonio campus location offers five programs designed to equip tomorrow’s professionals with the skills they need for a fulfilling medical career. CHCP’s lineup of available healthcare programs varies, featuring certificate programs for Dental Assistant, Medical Assistant, Medical Coding & Billing, and Pharmacy Technician. Plus, the campus offers the opportunity to complete their Associate of Applied Science degree in Health & Medical Administrative Services. The breadth of programs available allows aspiring healthcare professionals to find the program that best suits their strengths and career goals. After all, San Antonio is a regional powerhouse for medical services and systems, home to hundreds of medical offices and healthcare organizations. This gives students of the South San Antonio location a front-row seat to career paths and advancement opportunities throughout healthcare upon graduation.
In addition to a host of professionally focused programs to choose from—including the Dental Assistant, Medical Assistant, and Pharmacy Tech programs—our South San Antonio campus location is perfectly situated in a growing metropolitan area to prepare you to pursue any number of career opportunities. Plus, with all the nearby parks, shopping centers, and leisure activities available to you, you can live life while pursuing your education and career future. Easy access to I-35 means you a short car ride from enjoying San Antonio’s intriguing history to its many cultural experiences.
Enjoy Life While You Learn at CHCP’s Northwest San Antonio Campus
Featuring several parks, shopping centers, and entertainment options nearby, students at this location can pursue a better future while enjoying all that life has to offer today. From the 50+ acres of bargain shopping at the Mission Open Air Market to the Yturri-Edmonds Historic Site to the bird-watching fun of the Mitchell Lake Audubon Center, students just a few miles from all sorts of leisure and learning experiences. Students here are also encouraged to embrace the southside’s predominately Latin American culture with destinations like PicaPica Plaza, a larger indoor Hispanic shopping mall, just down the road.
Pursue a Career as a Dental Assistant
Earn Your Dental Assistant Certificate Right Here in South San Antonio, TX
CHCP’s South San Antonio-based Dental Assistant Program is designed to help you prepare for entry-level positions in the dental field. As a dental assistant, you will provide compassionate patient care in a support role. Your dental assistant certificate program will cover everything from administrative and office procedures to technical patient-centered tasks, such as dental radiographs and maintaining dental equipment. In our modern dental lab in South San Antonio, Texas, you will learn how to help dentists with procedures like fillings, crowns, extractions, and root canals.
Once you complete your South San Antonio-based dental assistant program from CHCP, you will be prepared to take your certification test and move forward to obtaining your state-registered dental assistant x-ray certification through the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.
Medical Assistant Certification Program in San Antonio
Earn your Medical Assistant Certificate in South San Antonio, TX
The Medical Assistant Program offered at CHCP’s San Antonio - South campus will prepare you for a career as a medical assistant. This blended (on-campus and online) program is designed to take 36 weeks. You will learn how to take vital signs, record patient history, perform EKG injections, and more. Graduates from our program are well-trained in both clinical and administrative skills; this versatility allows them to be utilized at the front desk as well as in a hands-on, medical capacity. In addition, we emphasize professional communication. Included in the Medical Assistant Program is an externship to put learned skills into practice with our local healthcare employer partners to allow our student to gain real-life work experience.
Once you complete our Medical Assistant Certificate Program in San Antonio, you’ll be more than ready to take the Nationally Registered Certified Medical Assistant Exam through the National Association of Health Professionals. With medical assistant training from CHCP, you’ll be equipped with all of the knowledge you need to be an entry-level medical assistant.
Pursue a Career as a Pharmacy Technician
Our South San Antonio Campus has Your Pharmacy Technician Certificate Program
The Pharmacy Technician Program in CHCP’s South San Antonio campus is designed to help you prepare for entry-level positions in pharmacies, hospitals, and patient care facilities as a pharmacy technician. As a pharmacy tech, you’ll be expected to provide compassionate patient care in a support role. Your Pharmacy Technician certificate program will cover everything from names, uses, and doses of medications, to arithmetic used in pharmacies, record keeping, and pharmacy law and ethics. You’ll also have the opportunity to complete hands-on clinical experience in a pharmacy setting.
After you complete your pharmacy technician program at the CHCP San Antonio - South campus, you’ll have the knowledge, skills and insights you need to take the certification test and pursue opportunities throughout Texas for licensed pharmacy technicians.
FAQs
- What is the career path for a pharmacy technician?
- Pharmacy technicians can work in a variety of settings, including retail, medical, and research patient care facilities. You may also pursue further certification in a specialty area, such as chemotherapy, vaccines and immunization, and compounding.
- How long does it take to become a pharmacy technician?
- Most students can complete their certification course in under a year, but some can take as long as 18-24 months.
- Who employs pharmacy technicians?
- Retail pharmacies, hospitals, other medical facilities such as dental offices, research patient care facilities, and health insurance companies all employ pharmacy technicians.
- Do you have to renew a pharmacy technician license?
- Pharmacy technicians must recertify every two years by completing at least twenty hours of continuing education courses.
