| Hi, I realize it was a couple of months ago that you asked this so you may not even be around to read this, but...
I went to a bricks and morder Medical Assisting school (High Tech Institute) and would not recommend it. I was top of my class and did an externship at a great location and was offered a job off of that externship, for $7/hr with no benefits. Medical Assisting is a completely saturated market and it is very difficult to get jobs and the jobs you can get don't pay well and usually don't come with benefits. It is pretty ridiculous to be working in a hospital or or doctor's office and not be able to see a doctor yourself.
California (which is where I went to school) seems to be the worst. There are a ton of MA prorams that are churning out 1000s of new MAs every few months. The schools also tend to be rather expensive. Mine was about $12,000 for an 8 month program.
If you are interested in allied health my recommendation is that you go to a cc and work at becoming an LVN or an EMT. Then, if you really enjoy it you have the option of transferin into an RN or even accelorated NP program. If you don't like you will still have transferable credit that you can use to get into a four-year program somewhere.
PS. I went to MA school in 1995. It is even worse now. |