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Which Medical Assistants Are Preferred?

Thousands of new medical assistant schoool graduates enter the job market year after year. Those just starting out on their new career path will quickly find that most places prefer people who can demonstrate proficiency in the areas they seek to staff. Therefore, as long as there are better qualified candidates applying for these positions, those without experience will have a difficult time competing for these jobs.

In today's highly competitive job market the one sure key that opens doors is documentation of your expertise and qualifications in form of professional certifications...

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 National Healthcareer Association (NHA)

American Medical Technologists (AMT)

How Certification Works

Perhaps you have not been told about the importance of your credentials, or simply not realized, missed, or ignored it! Fact is, employers, career experts, and professionals everywhere agree: certified professionals are more trusted, and thus, more readily hired, often at higher salaries than their non-certified counter parts.

Most employers carefully screen their applicants, and in almost all most cases, only interview those applicants with the professional background and credentials they seek. Regardless how well trained you might be, without certification you have no real proof of your experience, knowledge, skills, and qualifications unless it has been measured against a certain national standard. The trick is to document it in some written form! This is exactly what certification is, and does. Certification has become widely recognized as proof of an individual's knowledge and qualifications in various areas of the medical assistant profession.

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What some schools don't want you to know...

There a countless online career colleges and self-study programs offering so-called medical assistant training on the Web; many of them are nothing more than facades for a company churning out degrees for their own profits.

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Prospective medical assistant students must realize that a medical assistant certificate of completion from a simple online self-study course is not the same as a medical assistant diploma from a vocational training program that is recognized and approved by the U.S. Department of Education, and CHEA.
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