The College Of Health Care Professions South San Antonio, Texas

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.

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.

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.