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How much did they offer you after finishing Medical Assistant training?
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I live in NYC, so if there is anyone from NYC that can answer this..that would be great. If not, any answer would help. I'm wondering how long you trained to become a Medical Assistant and what employers are generally looking to offer you starting off. Also, is there anyone that is a medical assistant and having their employer reimburse them for their education to move up ...and become a Nurse or something else like that...? Thanks!
Asked by HONEY
I live in NYC, so if there is anyone from NYC that can answer this..that would be great. If not, any answer would help. I'm wondering how long you trained to become a Medical Assistant and what employers are generally looking to offer you starting off. Also, is there anyone that is a medical assistant and having their employer reimburse them for their education to move up ...and become a Nurse or something else like that...? Thanks!
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I don't live in New York, but I know that the medical assisting program is similar to that of the medical office assistant program up here in Canada. The difference is that the people in the states deal more with the concept of "back office clinical" duties then the Canadian counterparts. When I was doing my training, it was primarily dealing with the administrative portion, but with the people in the states they are dealing more with the "back office" portion of it. Training for the medical assisting program, is I believe a degree program, so that would be probably 2-4 years to get. It took me 1 1/2 years to get my medical office assistant training, and you have more practicums with the fact that you have more of the clinical portion, so they need to see that you can manage this first. There are many types of employers that will higher these sort of people. The types of places would be medical offices, specialty clinics, and also outpatient clinics in hospitals. With the fact that you have both office and back office training, you may also get a chance to work on the wards within the hospital as well. No I haven't heard anything about being reimbursed about training. If you want to get reimbursed, then I would look for a really large organization like a hospital or something like that, as most of the smaller offices will not have the budget to reimburse someone to become a nurse. I will provide you with a few links. One link I will provide you with is the text book that I used for, for the clinical procedures, as I believe that also medical assisting students will use this one too. https://evolve.elsevier.com/productPages/s_1403.html http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/qwork/10260029/used/The%20Language%20of%20Medicine%20-%20Text%20and%20Mosby's%20Dictionary http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos164.htm http://www.aama-ntl.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_assistant http://www.medassistant.org/
I don't live in New York, but I know that the medical assisting program is similar to that of the medical office assistant program up here in Canada. The difference is that the people in the states deal more with the concept of "back office clinical" duties then the Canadian counterparts. When I was doing my training, it was primarily dealing with the administrative portion, but with the people in the states they are dealing more with the "back office" portion of it. Training for the medical assisting program, is I believe a degree program, so that would be probably 2-4 years to get. It took me 1 1/2 years to get my medical office assistant training, and you have more practicums with the fact that you have more of the clinical portion, so they need to see that you can manage this first. There are many types of employers that will higher these sort of people. The types of places would be medical offices, specialty clinics, and also outpatient clinics in hospitals. With the fact that you have both office and back office training, you may also get a chance to work on the wards within the hospital as well. No I haven't heard anything about being reimbursed about training. If you want to get reimbursed, then I would look for a really large organization like a hospital or something like that, as most of the smaller offices will not have the budget to reimburse someone to become a nurse. I will provide you with a few links. One link I will provide you with is the text book that I used for, for the clinical procedures, as I believe that also medical assisting students will use this one too. https://evolve.elsevier.com/productPages/s_1403.html http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/qwork/10260029/used/The%20Language%20of%20Medicine%20-%20Text%20and%20Mosby's%20Dictionary http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos164.htm http://www.aama-ntl.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_assistant http://www.medassistant.org/
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