Program Accreditation Information

Each year the Edgecombe Community College Medical Assisting Program reports the program effectiveness data to the Medical Assisting Review Board (MAERB): The Credentialing Examination Threshold has recently been changed to a participation requirement of 30% of all graduates and a passage rate of 60% of all participants (it is important to note that our data will not be monitored for this threshold until the 2018 annual report due to the new change and it is now reported as of the 2014 annual report). There is no exam history for prior cohorts because of this change.

Note: Students are not able to obtain either one of the 18 credit-hour Certificates without having completed the Associate Degree medical assisting program. In order to obtain the given Certificate, the student must graduate from the ECC Associate Degree medical assisting program, which is a CAAHEP-accredited program.

Program Effectiveness Data 2012 – 2016

CAAHEP Program Data: Credentialing Examination Participation and Passage

Year Of Graduation	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
# of students who graduated in the calendar year	8	10	15	10	17
# of students who took CMA Exam	8	10	16	6	0
# of students passed on 1st attempt	8	7	6	6	0
# of students passed on 2nd attempt	0	0	0	0	0
# of Students participating	100%	100%	94%	100%	0%	Threshold 30%
Percent of passing	100%	70%	38%	100%	0%	Threshold 60%

 

Job Placement Rate

Cohort	# of graduates	# of positive placements	# of Grads Employed as a Medical Asst. or a related Field	Placement Rate
2016	0	0	0	0%**
2015	10	10	10	100%
2014	15	8	8	83.33%
2013	10	9	9	90%
2012	17	11	11	64.71%
Total	60	46	46	84.44***
				Threshold 60%

*Note: The data collected above is a breakdown of each individual outcome based on students hired after completing the Medical Assisting Program.

**Note: At the time of the annual report, students had not completed the program. Therefore, a measure was not taken at the time this data was recorded in this table.

***Note: The 84.44% is the overall weighted percentage of students who obtained jobs as certified medical assistants over the past 5 years of data collected.

Each area demonstrates the individual percentage and has a sum of 100% of students obtaining jobs after certification and graduation from the Medical Assisting Program at Edgecombe Community College.

Annual Retention Rate (ARR)

2012 Cohort	100%	17 began, 17 graduated
2013 Cohort	76.92%	13 began, 10 graduated
2014 Cohort	83.33%	18 began, 15 graduated
2015 Cohort	100%	10 began, 10 graduated
2016 Cohort	84.44%	11 began, 8 graduated

2012 – 2016:  Five-year weighted average ARR is 89.83%

MAERB Retention Threshold: 60%

Updated:  05/30/2018