• Dental Hygiene
  
  
• Health Information Technology
  
  
• Medical Assistant
  
  
• Medical Laboratory Technology
  
  
• Medical Transcription
  
  
• Phlebotomy
  
  
• Physical Therapist Assistant

1. Would you enjoy working directly with patients to help them improve their oral health?

Dental hygienists work closely with patients while providing a variety of services such as oral hygiene instruction, scaling and root planning, polishing, dental sealants, fluoride treatments, nutrition counseling, radiographs, etc. The dental hygienist is an integral part of treating diseases of the gums such as gingivitis and periodontal disease as well teaching the patient how to take care of their teeth and gums. As a dental hygienist, you will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to work in partnership with your patients to help them achieve optimal oral health.

2. Are you interested in a program that can often be completed in 2 years?

The Dental Hygiene curriculum prepares students for the contemporary practice of dental hygiene. Graduates are qualified to take written and practical licensure examinations for immediate employment.

3. Would you like a job with flexible hours and part-time employment?

Dental hygienists typically do not practice on weekends and holidays. Instead they are able to arrange a flexible full or part-time patient schedule with working hours ranging from early morning to early evening. Dental hygienists often have a day off during the workweek to accommodate personal responsibilities.

4. Would you like to work in a dental office as part of a health care team?

Private practice dental offices provide the most common type of dental setting in which Registered Dental Hygienists are employed. Dental hygienists are an important aspect of the dental team.

5. Can I transfer credits into the Dental Hygiene Curriculum?

You can become a licensed registered dental hygienist in two years. Many of the students transfer credits into this curriculum to lighten their course load. If you already have an Associates or Bachelor's degree many of the course requirements can be waived.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.

1. Are you interested in a program that can often be completed in less than a year?

The Phlebotomy Certificate is a 24-credit program that most students can complete in 2 semesters.

2. Do you like working directly with patients?

Phlebotomists interact directly with patients and may work in hospitals, clinics, or blood collection centers.

3. Are you working on prerequisites for a health science curriculum?

Many health science students have decided to earn a Phlebotomy Certificate to enhance their nursing, radiological technology or other health science degree. If you are receiving financial aid, check with you advisor to plan a course of study that maximizes your eligibility for aid.

4. Are you interested in a curriculum without mathematics or chemistry requirements?

The Phlebotomy Certificate program has no math or chemistry requirement.

5. Would you like a job with flexible hours and the possibility of part-time employment?

Phlebotomists are in demand for many different shifts and types of healthcare institutions. Part-time and per diem employment options are also available in many facilities.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.

1. Would you like a degree program with options to transfer to the baccalaureate level?

Graduates of the Medical Laboratory have successfully transferred to baccalaureate programs in Medical Technology, Clinical Laboratory Science, Biology, Microbiology, and other degree programs. Graduates have also continued their educations in graduate, medical, and dental schools. Brome Community College has articulation agreements with several institutions, including upstate Medical University in Syracuse. See your advisor for information about preparing for transfer.

2. Are you interested in a technical career in the health sciences?

Medical Laboratory Technology students prepare for work in the fields of Hematology, Clinical Chemistry, Immunohematology (Blood Banking), and Clinical Microbiology. Graduates working in larger hospitals typically specialize in one or more of these areas.

3. Are you interested in a health career without significant patient care responsibilities?

The results of laboratory testing by Medical Laboratory Technicians are invaluable in helping healthcare providers to diagnose and treat illness. Except for minor phlebotomy responsibilities, though, most MLTs do not have significant patient are responsibilities.

4. Are you intrigued by the instruments and techniques used in forensics?

Many of the laboratory instruments and techniques used in forensic science are also used by clinical laboratory professionals to help with diagnosis and treatment of disease. MLTs who work in a facility with a forensic pathologist may also perform these tests as part of a medicolegal investigation.

5. Would you like to use science to solve medical mysteries?

Clinical Laboratory professionals are medical "detectives" who use the tools of science to discover the causes and treatments of disease.

6. Do you already hold an Associate's or Bachelor's degree with coursework in math, biology, an/or and chemistry? You may be able to complete the MLT program in less than a year.

Some students with prior coursework in math and science are able to complete the MLT curriculum in less than one year. Click here to check out our Fast Track curriculum.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.

1. Would you like a health career with opportunities for significantly varied responsibilities?

Medical Assistant are trained to perform tasks in three major areas of the medical office: administrative tasks, including medical transcription, insurance billing and coding, and medical record maintenance, patient care tasks, including taking patient histories and vital signs, and assisting with the performance of diagnostic procedures and treatments, and basic laboratory testing, including the collection and performance of waived laboratory tests.

2. Would you like a health career that typically does not require weekend, night, or holiday work?

Medical Assistants often choose to work in physician offices without weekend, shift, or holiday work. Of course, positions with more varied hours may also be available at clinics or hospitals.

3. Are you interested in a curriculum with limited mathematics and no chemistry or physics requirements?

The Medical Assistant Curriculum requires only the successful completion of MAT 090. Check with your advisor to find out if our high school courses or placement test exempt you from this requirement. There is no chemistry or physics requirement.

4. Would you like to work in a doctor's office or clinic as part of a health care team?

Doctor's offices or outpatient clinics are the type of practice chosen most often by Medical Assistant graduates.

5. Would you find caring directly for patients fulfilling?

Medical Assistants take medical histories and vital signs, explain treatment procedures to patients, prepare patients for examination, and assist the healthcare provider during the examination procedure.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.

1. Are you interested in a health career without significant patient care responsibilities?

As a health information professional you will work without direct patient contact most of the time. Health information management professionals enjoy a broad selection of job opportunities and options for professional growth.

2. Would you like a job with flexible hours and the possibility of part-time employment?

Health information professionals work in a multitude of settings throughout the healthcare industry, from hospitals to insurance agencies. Work hours are flexible as well as options for full-time or part-time employment.

3. Are you interested in a health career that involves computers?

Health information professionals serve the healthcare industry and the public by managing, analyzing, and utilizing data vital for patient care-and making it accessible to healthcare providers when it is needed. Computer technology is advancing the capabilities of health information processes daily.

4. Are you interested in a curriculum with limited mathematics and no chemistry or physics requirements?

The math required for the HIT program involves basic math skills. The science requirement is Human Biology I and II, as well as Pathophysiology. No chemistry or physics is required for a degree in Health Information Technology.

5. Would you like to be involved in the statistics of healthcare?

Test results, diagnoses, prescriptions, and treatments-these are exactly the types of information required to effectively treat patients. Whether stored on paper or computer files, reliable health information is critical to quality patient care.

6. Are you interested in a health career without heavy lifting?

Health information management professionals hold many diverse roles, yet all share a common purpose: providing reliable and valid information that drives the healthcare industry. They are specialists in administering information systems, managing medical records, and coding for reimbursement and research. There is little if any heavy lifting.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.

1. Are you interested in a health career without significant patient care responsibilities?

As a medical transcriptionist, you will have little direct patient contact. Medical transcriptionists work in settings that are usually far removed from the examining rooms, clinics, and hospital floors where health care is provided. Patients rarely have the opportunity to hear about those who transcribe their medical reports, and medical transcriptionists rarely meet the subjects of their work.

2. Would you like a job with flexible hours and the possibility of part-time employment?

Because their services are in demand, medical transcriptionists are often able to arrange convenient and flexible work schedules. Medical transcription is a portable skill that allows for professional and geographic mobility.

3. Are you interested in a curriculum with limited mathematics and no chemistry or physics requirements?

Courses in the medical transcription certificate program include human biology, medical terminology, medical transcription, English, medical legal aspects, pharmacology, and medical ethics.

4. Are you interested in a program that can often be completed in less than a year?

In most cases, the medical transcription certificate program is completed within one year.

5. Are you interested in a health career that involves computers?

Medical transcription can be a lifelong, satisfying career providing the constant challenge of an expanding and advancing technology. The changes occurring in the healthcare industry promise to provide even more challenges to the forward-looking medical transcriptionist.

6. Would you like to study the origins and use of medical terminology?

Medical transcriptionists are word specialists. Knowing and understanding the language of medicine which includes root words, suffixes and prefixes, is a valuable skill developed by the medical transcriptionist. Medical transcriptionists learn new terms every day and are never bored!

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.

1. Would you find caring directly for patients fulfilling?

PTAs work directly with their own caseload of patients under the supervision of a physical therapist.

2. Would you like to help patients regain or improve physical function?

Typically, patients who seek physical therapy are motivated to improve and gain back their functional independence.

3. Are you interested in learning about the science of human motion and mobility?

Courses in the Physical Therapist Assistant programs include physics, biology, and kinesiology-the study of muscles and muscle movement. The science of Physical Therapy applies physical principles to human function to treat injury and disease. The use of heat, light, water, electricity, manual therapy and exercise are examples of patient interventions.

4. Would you like a health career that involves physical activity as part of the job?

The Physical Therapist assistant will provide intervention to many patients each day. Lifting, moving, and walking with patients are everyday requirements.

5. Are you interested in a career in a constantly changing and active career?

As a Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA), you will work with many patients each day. Each patient has individual goals and needs and the PTA helps each patient meet his or her goals.

If you have answered yes to several of these questions, this career may be right for you.