The medical assistant program at Cybertex Institute of Technology, whether it’s at the Austin campus or the Killeen campus, emphasizes a thorough understanding of anatomy and physiology. Students don’t just passively sit through lectures; they’re responsible for presentations in which they walk fellow students through systems of the body. They develop the skills they’ll need when interacting with and instructing patients, which is becoming an increasingly important part of the work that medical assistants are doing. In this video, Cybertex medical assistant student Juanita Sanchez discusses the urinary system, its role in filtering waste from the body, and [...]

The medical assistant program at Cybertex Institute of Technology, whether it’s at the Austin campus or the Killeen campus, emphasizes a thorough understading of anatomy and physiology. Students don’t just passively sit through lectures; they’re responsible for presentations in which they walk fellow students through systems of the body. They develop the skills they’ll need when interacting with and instructing patients, which is becoming an increasingly important part of the work that medical assistants are doing. In this video, Cybertex medical assistant student Tiffany Slocum discusses the important network moving blood throughout the body, including the proper procedure [...]

One of the things I like most about teaching in the medical assistant program at Cybertex is that the students enrolling here really want to be here. They’re not just at the program to see what it might be like—they’ve made the commitment to go from start to certification in a little more than nine months. The great majority of students who start the program complete it, and a number of them are thoughtful enough to reach out to me when they’ve landed jobs. What they tell me, across the board, is how much their lives have changed. Some had [...]

The medical assistant program at Cybertex Institute of Technology, whether it’s at the Austin campus or the Killeen campus, emphasizes a thorough understanding of anatomy and physiology. Students don’t just passively sit through lectures; they’re responsible for presentations in which they walk fellow students through systems of the body. They develop the skills they’ll need when interacting with and instructing patients, which is becoming an increasingly important part of the work that medical assistants are doing. In this video, Cybertex medical assistant student Alma Munoz-Torres presents on the respiratory system, including information about the normal range of respirations per minute and a pulse [...]