To keep your certification, you have to maintain your CPR card that you get
through your medical assisting school, and complete continuing education hours in clinical, general, and clerical categories.
When you finally get
through medical assisting school, you still have one more exam to take - the medical assistant certification exam.
Not exact matches
clearly, you haven't gone
through residency to know, because I can tell you this — as a
medical student I
assisted in low - risk deliveries (part of a requirement of
medical school, on our OB - gyn rotation) and as a pediatrics resident — yep, that's right, a pediatrics resident!
An individual can become a
medical assistant in as little as a year after graduating high
school through any number of the hundreds of
schools offering
medical assisting programs.
The clinical and administrative courses offered
through accredited South Dakota
medical assistant
schools help students develop the job skills they need to stand out to employers in the
medical assisting field.
This includes successfully passing a
medical assisting program that is accredited
through the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education
Schools (ABHES).
Medical assisting training programs are offered
through community colleges, technical
schools, vocational training centers, universities and
through some employers.
Most MA go
through a
medical assisting training program offered by trade
schools located across the country.