Considering a career as a medical assistant and want a better idea what the day-to-day responsibilities look like? Christine Edwards has done it for seven years and we asked her to take us though a ...

Medical assistants — who take measurements, draw blood and fill out documentation before a patient sees a doctor — are in high demand nationally and short supply locally. To remedy its shortage, ...

When facing a shortage of licensed nurses, certified nurse aides trained as medication assistants can be a viable alternative, according to a pilot study detailed in the Annals of Long Term Care.

The Medical Assistant (MA) Apprenticeship is a yearlong, earn-as-you-learn program designed to equip candidates with the skills and knowledge to succeed in the role as a certified medical assistant ...

Clearwater Medical Assistant School will open this spring, offering an 18-week, hands-on medical assistant program.

No Botox injections. And now no flu shots. Medical officials learned last week that medical assistants had long been illegally administering the anti-wrinkle drug Botox. Now it turns out that the same ...

Children’s Wisconsin hospital is always looking for medical assistants. It is consistently in the top five of positions the hospital is continuously trying to fill, officials say. So instead of ...