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Accreditation

Winter Park Tech, one of four Orange Technical Education Centers operated by Orange Public County Schools, is approved by the State Department of Education.

Technical training programs focus around the career clusters of Art, AV Technology & Communication, Business Management & Administrative, Health Science, Human Services, Information Technology and Architecture & Construction. Currently, 22 career certificate programs are offered to adults and high school students. There is also a continuous schedule of academic courses for adult high school credit, GED preparation, academic remediation, adult basic education, and Adult English Literacy/ESOL.

The center is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (COE), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI), and by the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA).
Two programs have additional national accreditation:

  • Winter Park Tech’s Medical Assisting program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs upon the recommendation of the Medical Assisting Education Review Board (MAERB), CAAHEP, 1361 Park Street, Clearwater, FL 33756, (727)210-2350
  • Winter Park Tech’s Medical Record Transcribing ATD is accepted by the Approval Committee for Certificate Programs (ACCP), a joint committee established by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) and America Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) for certifying a approving medical transcription education programs. The Medical Recording Transcribing program has been proven to be in compliance to having a Model Curriculum, maintain sound educational programming, producing competent entry-level medical transcriptionists, and providing assurance to the public of consistency and quality outcomes for medical transcription education.
Accrediting Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (COE)
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI)
Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA)
AAMA/AMA Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP)
Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI)