Let’s Chat!
Meet with us to see how we can help you fill your talent gaps, increase employee effectiveness and satisfaction, reduce turnover, and attract new employees.
Top Industry Certifications for Healthcare Support Roles
By: Jenn Hall | June 2025
Healthcare support team members can benefit greatly from relevant industry certifications. Not only can these certifications help validate an individual’s professional knowledge and skills, but they also can help individuals stand out to current and prospective employers and increase credibility and trust among their peers.
Additionally, encouraging and empowering your team members to pursue industry certifications can significantly benefit your organization as well. For example, when they also can help your organization increase trust and credibility, improve team member satisfaction and retention, increase quality of care, and improve administrative processes and procedures.
There are several certification options available for various healthcare roles. For the purposes of this conversation, we will focus on some of the top industry certifications for healthcare support roles, including medical assistants, phlebotomists, pharmacy technicians, dental assistants, medical coding and billing specialists, sterile processing technicians, and EKG technicians.
Industry certifications for healthcare support roles*
*This list represents a selection of healthcare support roles. Many other support roles may benefit from or require industry certification.
**The certifications listed represent some of the top industry certifications for the respective healthcare career. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list.
How U.S. Career Institute prepares students for certification
U.S. Career Institute (USCI) has a rich history of providing high quality distance education. With 18 educational programs that specifically focus on healthcare support roles, we are uniquely positioned to help your organization strengthen and empower your team. Not only are our programs designed to prepare students to succeed in their chosen profession, but they are carefully designed to prepare students to pursue industry certification.
Our curriculum team regularly reviews guidance and feedback from our advisory council and subject matter experts to evaluate existing course material and ensure alignment with current industry standards. Additionally, our team examines certification exam outlines, provided by certifying bodies, to ensure our programs address all of the necessary topics. Beyond our core program materials, we also provide our students with test preparation materials, exam fees included, along with performance monitoring for our business partners. Our program review process, comprehensive course materials, and test preparation support ensures that our students are appropriately trained and prepared for not only their role, but also to pass their industry certification exam at a higher rate than the national average.
Certification pass rate
***Data reflects pass rates for USCI students in 2024
Healthcare organizations that partner with U.S. Career Institute for continuing education and professional development can customize their team’s learning paths to align with organizational needs and clinical skills training, if needed, as well as easily track team member progress and view detailed reports through an intuitive dashboard.
Ready to advance your team’s knowledge and skills – and help them achieve industry certification?
We can help. Simply request a consultation with a U.S. Career Institute representative for more details.
