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 April Box discusses the 206 bones (and tendons and ligaments) that make up the skeletal [...]

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 Lorena Barber discusses the integumentary system and the importance of skin in protecting the human [...]

The Medical Assistant program at Cybertex Institute of Technology in Killeen gives students the skills and the know-how to work in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and other medical facilities. Thanks to the externships our students complete at the conclusion of our Medical Assistant program, they actually get to go into doctors’ offices and do the very work that they’d do as medical assistants. For some students in our program, it’s actually functioned as a “working interview,” with those externships becoming jobs. For other students, it’s been a valuable experience that shines on a resume. Our externship program gives each student 160 hours [...]