In 2015 the professional services firm Ernst and Young announced it was to remove academic and
education details, including degree classifications, from its trainee
application process and would decide who to interview based on candidates» performance in
online tests.
Many colleges and other entities now offer web based medical assistant distance
education programs where all, or most of the required course work (hybrid courses) is read and submitted
online; related
online courses cover biology, medical computer
applications, word
processing, computer sciences, economics, English composition, pharmacology, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, which all falls into the medical assisting field.