Hybrid Education
A Powerful Combination
ACA is a “Hybrid Education” college; our “hybrid” campus incorporates creative uses of technology, with nationwide clinical sites and human interaction in order to deliver programs for medical assisting, medical college and medical residency in a new social era. Using both advanced online classroom technologies (e-learning) and on-ground physician supervised hands-on clinical externships (outpatient & inpatient clinical settings), ACA delivers powerful healthcare instructional methods that have demonstrated effectiveness for adult learners, pre-health students and pre-residency candidates. This innovative, simple to use hybrid system encourages contact between students and faculty, allows for prompt feedback, develops reciprocity and cooperation among the entire college, and uses active learning techniques in a system as simple to use as any forum. ACA’s LMS also includes weekly online assessments and synchronous chat, asynchronous online threaded discussion, e-mail, online exams, and hands-on clinical Externships in a multi-disciplinary fashion. Students may complete the courses on their own weekly schedule, with the exception of scheduled functions (online chats, homework assignments due, exams, etc.) Throughout the program, faculty stay connected with students using the LMS’s internal video-telephone conference tool as well as webinars, emails, chat, text messaging and social media.
However, this model is not made for everyone: every prospective student must undergo the ACA 8 step enrollment process (www.dvancedcolleges.us/8stepstoenrollment), which is designed to pre-qualify its students prior to accepting any enrollments. Resources:
> Click here to read more about ACA’s Learning Management System, Student Information System and Electronic Document and Signature Processing.
> click here to read about hybrid education.
Students are in Control
Upon provisional enrollment, students are registered for at least one online didactics course of 3 units each term. If available, a student may be registered for more than one course for each term. Ongoing assistance is provided to each student whenever requested or deemed appropriate by faculty or staff. Students must earn a minimum overall Grade Point Average (GPA) of C (or 2.0) in order to graduate with an Advanced Medical Assistant Diploma and a GPA of 3.0 or better for graduates of Advanced Medical Assisting – Medical College Track to be considered for direct medical school entry into our affiliated medical school.
