Health and Community Studies

Academy of Learning offers various health and community studies courses and programs to the interested candidates. These programs include Medical Office Assistant, Community Service & Support Worker, Personal Support Worker and Medical Receptionist.  The people who pass these programs are able to perform and undertake different duties related to these fields.

Program and course description

Medical Office Assistant performs a key role in the swift and effective working of a medical office. His responsibilities may change but their duties are from keeping the books to making schedules of laboratory tests. A Personal Support Worker plays his role related to an old client’s total care. You would help them in taking bath, wearing dress and giving them meals and do their duties. Community Service & Support Workers assist the individuals in finding and applying personal and medical assistance to as many groups as possible. A Medical Receptionist is responsible to you would be counted on to help run an efficient and cheerful medical office.

Responsibilities of workers

Medical Office Assistant’s duties include confirming and booking appointments, keeping the books, tracing information of patients, maintaining insurance documents, controlling the communication and keeping computer records. Personal Support Worker assists clients in various tasks like bath, maintenance of hygiene, dress and undress, preparation of meals and administration of medicine. They may be required to impart fundaments duties as cleansing, bedding and laundry. Community Service & Support Workers work with all members of community such as the homeless, teenagers with pregnancy, drug abusers and others. A Medical Receptionist receives persons and their calls as the first person. So, he is responsible for building image of business and setting a pleasing tone of the business. He has to perform other duties of small nature.

Job Opportunities

Medical Office Assistants can have their slots in Ambulatory/Outpatient departments, Diagnostic Lab/X-Ray departments, Alternative medicine practices, Hospital Admitting/ER departments and others. Personal Support Workers find their place in Hospitals, Nursing and long-term care facilities, Retirement Homes, Alzheimer’s programs, Community healthcare agencies and others of this nature. Community Service & Support Worker can take responsibilities in Community Legal Centers, Correctional Facilities, Women's or Youth Refuges or Crisis Centers, Residential Aged Care Services, Community Aged Care Services, Juvenile Residential Facilities, Mental Health Agencies and others. Medical Receptionist can perform duties in Dentist’s office, Optometrist's office, Hospital office, Physician's office, Walk-in clinic and others. All of them can provide their services to hospitals in general.

Credentials and Qualities

We at Academy of Learning inculcate in the students firm organizational abilities, abilities of multitasking, sociable and joyful behavior under drastic conditions and strong communication skills. Our candidates have kindness and fellow-feeling for the clients and they respect the confidentiality of the candidates. They are confident of their abilities and take initiative and have strong will to add to respect and safety of the clients.

Our programs and courses give hands-on experience to the students and practical training. We prepare you for your career in as minimum time as possible. The contents of courses are up-to-date and customized to match individual needs of the job opportunities. So it is very beneficial to have a chance to do a course with us that will take you to career heights.

Community Services Course

Academy of Learning offers various valued and rewarding programs related to healthcare.  Community services course teaches the candidates how to help others in implementing or locating personal, medical or any other assistance to the target groups of any number. The requirement of new qualified workers increases with the increase in community services.

What you are expected to perform

The members of this program are found at work with all the classes of the society for example people without homes, drug addicts, teenagers with pregnancy and many others. It is a repaying and motivating program that makes you able to get the chance of improving the lives of needy people with risky lives. They help the individuals improve their social and individual lives. It is required of them to fulfill the emotional, physical and behavioral   needs of assistance of the clients.  They may also undertake some additional duties which include preparation of intake reports, conducting the interviews of the people to find out their real needs, referring them to proper and suitable services and impart help under critical conditions.

They give counseling to the patients in finding out how much improvement they have made and try to remedy the problems and troubles they may have. These people are responsible for referring clients to residence based, in-patient mental health or detoxification programs. They may even go so far as to accompany them to various programs. Such duties and responsibilities help the enhance the career growth and professional development.

What you should have?

Various job skills and experiences are required for these professionals. When a diploma is awarded to you from Academy of Learning, you are showing the people that our institute inculcates these credentials in us. We teach you such personal properties as exceptional skills of organization, showing the crisis management under pressure situations and undoubted skills of problem solving. The individuals should be able to use memory significantly and themselves for multi-tasks. They should remain helpful and positive even in the drastic conditions and should show kindness and empathy for the clients. Moreover, they should have excellent communication skills and a strong desire to add to respect and repute of the clients.

What you will be able to perform?

The graduates of the community services program can swiftly and promptly find lucrative career opportunities in the private as well as private sectors. A lot many work houses will open their doors for you and will give you red carpet welcome.  They include community legal centers, correctional facilities, Residential Aged Care Services and Community Aged Care Services, Alcohol and Drug Services and Aged or Disability Respite Services. Other such houses are Mental Health Agencies, Women's or Youth Refuges or Crisis Centers, Juvenile Residential Facilities and Advocacy Services.

Classes start on every week to make the students have the start as soon as possible. Our diplomas ensure you jobs within 20-52 weeks. The programs are tailored to match the individual needs. Hands-on training and practical experience are given to the students to give them real life exposure. Community services program has been designed to develop the skills in real sense.

Health Care Diploma Programs

AOLC is a college for professional skilled training that provides highly streamlined knowledge and skills to its students. The college hosts various courses in different domains such as Law, IT, Healthcare, etc. The purpose of courses at the AOLC is not to provide the students with bookish knowledge but also to show them the way of betterment by embedding personal traits necessary for a job status, ethical support and hands-on training. These all factors along with the courses taught are highly significant in a person’s growth in job market, as shown by the reports and student feedbacks. Also, the employers are grateful to the AOLC for their excellently taught courses and an individual’s preparation for a job. It raises the level of quality in any organization, as told by the employing agencies and companies. In the area of healthcare there are a number of courses that are taught, such as the Personal Assistant course, Medical Receptionist course, Medical Office Assistant course.

1. Medical Receptionist Course

The course is highly considered as the one in which a person is responsible for administration of the work that takes place around the reception of any healthcare unit. The work of a person gets affected by a number of disturbing factors in the healthcare centers. The individuals must be able to correspond and communicate effectively to keep track of all the tasks even in most adverse situations. The receptionist is responsible for fixing appointments, making day to day fixes in schedules, keeping track of patients along with their personal record, etc. Therefore the duty calls for excellent job working and a receptionist should be on his/her toes at all times. The reason for this is the criticality of job functions and various related tasks. Failure in delivery or any omission can lead to serious damages and health threats to the affected party.

2. Personal Support Worker

A personal support worker is assigned the responsibility of looking after the patients and to provide them with the best opportunities to make use of. These workers are allotted the responsibility of looking after the patients and weak or old people who are unable to completely take care of their own selves. It is therefore both a pious and satisfying job for many people. On top of that, the person is allowed to take the responsibility of a patient and the support worker must be at his/her toes at all times for doing his/her best to support the patient in all possible ways.

3. Medical Office Assistance Course

The MOA course is mainly intended to provide a student with skills required to take hold of the medical official assistance in a more efficient way. The reason why these medical assistants are important is that they ensure a smooth working environment for the patients and doctors as a whole. The families of patients also feel better if a good and responsible MOA is at the job. Therefore, the skills and healthcare assistance factors are embedded in a person to make him work better in any healthcare unit.

Computer Technician Certification - AOLToronto

Academy of Learning College Bay/Bloor Campus provides the best opportunity to obtain career-oriented Computer Technician Certification within 36 week time period. The certification imparts insight and practical training in the related fields of computers. The students are prepared to be the best fit professionals of the modern times. At academy of learning, we prepare the students to fulfill prospective employers’ expectations about their abilities.

Program Details

Our classes start weekly lead you to your career goals in a small time frame.  We facilitate you with hands-on experience of the related work so that you are injected in the required jobs in a go. The contents of the course are up-to-date so that you are able to get the latest job skills and vision. Small classrooms give you personalized attention of the instructors. Above all, you can enjoy various financial assistance options at our academy. Our computer technician program will enable you to build your future career in a good manner.

What You Are Expected To Perform

Computer service technicians are expected to perform various duties which may vary from place to place. However, common and general duties of these technicians are inspection and connection of new parts; installation and configuration of operating systems and application software and that of anti-virus programs and firewalls. Further, they will be expected to run and maintain internet connections and connect the system with wireless and wired networks. Similarly, they will test new systems for proper working at their first use, clear customer complaints and install peripheral devices such as printers. We impart you all the abilities in order to make you able to perform them in due course of your job.

What You Should Display As Surplus

Along with your professional abilities, you should have other traits of personality, too.  The employers want to see these properties in you and we assist you grow these traits in you. The traits include sound interpersonal and communication skills, courage under hard times and an aptitude for math, computers and science. You should also have great skills in solving problems and those of working as solo and in team. At academy of learning, we polish your abilities and personality in keeping with these requirements.

What You Can Expect Form Market

The demand of computer service technicians is always at rise. Due to wide spectrum abilities, they may perform duties in a long range of industrial undertakings.  They can perform duties in retail trade and wholesale trade, manufacturing industries and self-employment ventures.  They may render admin and management services along with professional and technical services. You are trained to be the best at our institute so that you may deserve desiring the best.

Your stay at Academy of Learning College Bay/Bloor Campus would be the best academic experience of your life that will ensure you hands-on knowledge and the best training to meet the challenges of your practical work.