With one of the most versatile roles in healthcare today, medical assistants provide vital administrative and clinical support, allowing offices and clinics to run smoothly. A qualified medical assistant can provide everything from front desk support to injections, blood draws, and more.

Medical assistants have a unique entry point into the healthcare field, because their work allows them to gain experience across countless medical settings. This gives these professionals the chance to become experienced in medical assisting or specialize down the road, once they discover an area of medicine they are drawn to.

Pharmacy Technicians are trained healthcare professionals who work in both hospitals and retail pharmacies under the supervision of a pharmacist. The Fortis Pharmacy Tech programs teaches students how to prepare and fill prescriptions, provide customer service to patients, issue medications, label and store supplies and more. Our dedicated and experienced faculty is committed to helping students achieve the knowledge and skills needed to for an entry-level position as a pharmacy tech. If you are interested in a career working alongside pharmacists, then consider the Fortis pharmacy technician training program at a school campus in Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana and Tennessee. 

Our comprehensive curriculum is a balance of traditional classroom and hands-on skill development and educates students on the basics of pharmacy practice including reading, filling and distributing prescriptions. Students will learn basic pharmaceutical calculations, medications, common drug interactions and their side effects and pharmaceutical agents and their uses, their legal responsibilities and more.

Now is the right time to start training for your career as a Medical Billing and Coding professional. Critical to our growing healthcare industry, medical billing and coding professionals are essential healthcare workers.

Our experienced and dedicated faculty present a comprehensive curriculum through a balance of traditional classroom and small group instruction. The Fortis program covers a range of topics including medical terminology, office management, as well as the important and medical coding techniques. Experiential by design, students are guided through real-world situations that prepare them for working in both office and hospital settings.  

We help students gain the competence and confidence so that upon graduation they are prepared to begin their careers in the world of medical billing and coding. 

Offered at select campuses, Fortis’s medical billing and coding training program is designed to help students gain the knowledge and skills they need to pursue entry-level positions in a variety of settings including hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, dental offices, nursing homes, insurance companies and more. Call today to learn how to get started training for your career as a medical billing and coding professional. 

The Practical Nursing program at Fortis provides the theory, laboratory and clinical experiences to prepare students to sit for the NCLEX licensure exam and pursue an entry-level position in Practical Nursing. After graduating the program, passing the exam and meeting any other requirements, the practical nurse becomes a “licensed” practical nurse, also known as an LPN. 

The Fortis curriculum is a balance of traditional classroom instruction, laboratory work and hands-on skill development. The clinical portion of the PN nursing curriculum includes real-world hands-on experience providing nursing care to diverse patient populations in hospitals and other healthcare agencies. In addition, the clinical portion of the PN program will enable the student to observe first-hand and learn the qualities that are crucial to employability.

Our experienced and dedicated faculty teach courses in the Practical Nursing program include science and health topics, as well as math for medical professionals and pharmacology. LPN courses cover content including basic Nursing Skills, Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Emergency Care, Pediatric Nursing, Obstetric Nursing, Medical/Surgical Nursing and more. 

Fortis’s Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program is thoughtfully designed to provide students with quality academic and clinical instruction balanced between traditional classroom instruction and hands-on skill development. Our program focuses on guiding students to respond to society's continuing healthcare needs as they develop into lifelong learners. The program also provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to sit for the NCLEX licensure exam. After graduation and passing this licensure exam, students are able to pursue a career as an entry-level registered nurse in a variety of clinical and hospital settings.