Formal training in medical assisting, while generally preferred, is not always required. Some medical assistants are trained on the job, although this practice is less common than in the past. Applicants usually need a high school diploma or the equivalent. Recommended high school courses include mathematics, health, Biology, typing, bookkeeping, computers, and office skills. Volunteer experience in the health care field also is helpful. Medical assistants who are trained on the job usually spend their first few months attending training sessions and working closely with more experienced workers. Many medical assistants now take classes online in programs such as at MedAssistant.org and St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants. While other may attend traditional classes at local community/ junior colleges or technical schools.
If you are looking to become a physicians assistant in the future, you should plan to study college prep classes. These classes include Algebra, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
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Different programs offer licensing to become a medical assistant. One school in particular that I found, is Washington University. They have a medical program and do offer a medical assistant license if that is what someone is interested in taking.
You can get a medical assistant certification for working in a hospital by first meeting the qualifications to become a medical assistant. You need attend a school and take a state test also.
You can go to medical school with any degree. You just have to take the basic science courses, take the MCAT, apply to med school and get accepted. In fact, most of my friends who have worked as medical office assistants got their inspiration to continue it to a medical school coming from their past job. Now they are very successful in their career and in helping people. I think it is rather going to be much easier to blend in the medical field since you already have a good experience in the industry with your medical assistant degree. In fact if you can do it, you can even be a working student.
Anyone can apply to a medical school and become a doctor. The real question is whether or not being a PA will lead to a shorter time at medical school and the answer to that is, NO!
You'd get an undergraduate degree, go to medical school, then get a physician's assistant license, do an internship, and get your medical license.
you dont have to take any special courses at all in middle school to become a medical assistant...colleges nor do professionals care what you took up in middle school..
To become a child doctor or pediatrician you first have to become a doctor. Following medical school you will have to do a minimum of 3 years residency in pediatrics (the babies and children unit of a medical school hospital). Recommended high school subjects are mathematics and science subjects like biology, physics and chemistry. Becoming a doctor is highly competitive and the prospective doctor should aim for excellent grades.
Medical assistant training is widely available; you can go to an accredited school in this field or take online courses. All this information can be found online.
i am a medical assistant but i have not took the exam. I finish school 1989 how can i applied for the exam
Only if he or she completed medical school after PA school. I have known several Physician Assistants (PA) who went back to medical school to become physicians, an MD as you referred.
It takes about 11 years after high school, 4 years of collage, 4 years of medical school, and 3 years of medical training.