On this episode, you'll hear how Lincoln Tech is focusing on Medical Assistants. You'll hear from former students and administration about the importance of this program and the need for M.A. https://www.lincolntech.edu/ https://www.lincolntech.edu/careers/health-sciences/medical-assistant Our medical assistant graduates are coming back to us extremely happy with the wages that they're making. 00:00:10S2The first thing I would say, just do it. Don't second guess yourself. If there's something that you really want to do, just do it.00:00:17S3I had a job upon graduation, and I owe that all to Lincoln. I would just. 00:00:22S4Recommend for other health care employers that work with Lincoln Tech. I highly recommend that they learn a little bit more about the externship program. That's actually something I had a personal interest in it .00:00:34S5Welcome to the official podcast of Lincoln Tech. In this episode, we'll be looking at the medical assistant program. We'll find out what you can expect to learn and what kind of jobs are out there. You'll also hear from instructors, former students and employers who work directly with Lincoln Tech to help you succeed in a field that isn't going away. And Lincoln's promise to our students is simple We will work tirelessly to help you succeed on the road to new career opportunities. Now let's dive into some details about the program. Let's meet our. 00:01:02S6Guests. 00:01:03S1So I am Michelle Jones, and I'm a medical assistant instructor at Lincoln Tech in Morristown, New Jersey. I've been a certified medical assistant for 23 years, and I've been training medical assistance for 11 years.00:01:18S5As an instructor, can you fill us in on the medical assistant program and what it consists of and even some of the tasks that students are responsible for.00:01:26S1Medical assistance work in outpatient facilities. So those facilities are doctor's offices, are urgent care centers. We have students work in outpatient surgery centers, health departments. We even have graduates work at state and county correctional facilities. So our medical assistants are running the front office and the back office. So in addition to their clinical skills, our medical assistants are work in the front desk as well. They work scheduling appointments, confirmation calls. They're working in patients, electronic medical records. They're getting into the billing, insurance and coding part of health care and their clinical skills. They're on the back end doing direct one on one patient care. So they're doing the vital signs patients, blood pressure, pulse, respiration. They're taking the patient's temperature, height, weight measuring, maybe if they're in pediatrics, measuring the infant's head circumference in length .00:02:27S5That's quite a job description. It must take a good deal of training and practice to be able to manage all of that. 00:02:32S1So in addition to those things, the medical assistant is also running EKG on a patient's heart. They're drawing blood, doing phlebotomy. They're assisting in minor office surgeries and assisting with just the physical exam with the physician. So there's a lot of duties that a medical assistant is responsible for, from the front office to administration to the back clinical side of it. 00:02:58S5How long does a program typically take? 00:03:00S1So our medical assistant come to school for? It's about eight month program. They do six five week modules or six five week terms. The course is broken up that way. So they do six five week modules and then they go off to a five week clinical internship where they're doing hands on directly in a doctor's office. We have preceptors at the doctor's offices in our community that bring on our students and they finish their training hands on.00:03:31S5And as an added bonus, at the end of that process, they're also prepared to take a medical assisting certification exam. So now we know the training process from an instructor's viewpoint. We're also going to hear from an employer in just a few minutes. But first, let's meet some of our graduates. 00:03:45S2My name is Kathy Garcia. I am a graduate of Lincoln Tech and currently working as a supervisor at Reconstructive Orthopedics. 00:03:54S5Kathy, what made you decide to go to Lincoln Tech?00:03:56S2So to be completely honest, I loved ...
