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How can I further my education as a medical assistant?

EMT, Paramedic, Surgical Tech, EKG Tech, Medical Assistant education help for Physician Assistant School?

  • I need patient care hours for admittance into Physician Assistant School. I was talking to an adviser for the PA program, and I was told that I needed to get certified in something ...show more

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    I would agree that the cna (certified nursing assistant) can be very useful in learning about patient care, patient relations, basic assessment (even though lpn/licensed practical nurse and rn/registered nurse traditionally do assessment) and carry over of physical therapy (including range of motion) as someone else mentioned. The cna course is also most likely the quickest course out of the careers that you'd mentioned. Please steer clear of those private expensive schools and instead look into the county vo-tech school or community college (perhaps non-credit course) The job of a cna can be quite emotionally stressful as well as physically draining but should give one excellent experience working with a patient caseload. Regarding the medical assistant, there are not supposed to be too many jobs for the MA (or medical billers and coders, just fyi ;) despite what the private career schools proclaim. For PA school, perhaps applying to a few different schools may be more to your advantage. For general info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and search 'nursing, psychiatric and home health aides' or such. US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ

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First off, patient care hours are patient care hours...as a PA, you're probably not going to be setting up sterile trays, drawing blood, and all that menial work LOL. You'll be telling people to do that stuff! :) EMT would be the fastest route to those elusive patient care hours. It only takes a month or two to become certified as an EMT-Basic, whereas paramedic and MA takes closer to a year (I know; I've done both programs). If I were you, I'd avoid becoming a nursing assistant, unless you are particularly fond of changing adult diapers. I can't comment on the surgical tech or EKG tech programs, but I suspect that it is also a vocational program, and those usually last 6 months to a year. Good luck! :D

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