In choosing medical careers to pursue, some think about excitement, unpredictability, and the unique and amazing feeling of saving a life, and think they’ll find that as an emergency medical technician (EMT). I used to think that way—and while the work that EMTs do is valuable, it’s more routine work than people think: At the end of the day, a lot of stabilizing patients with heart issues and transporting them to emergency rooms.
It surprises some people to learn that if excitement and unpredictability are reasons that medicine intrigues you, you’re most likely to find it as a medical assistant. Nurses, between attending to record keeping and patients’ day-to-day needs, need to cultivate as much routine as possible to do their jobs, even in more unpredictable settings like ER rooms.
Medical assistants, on the other hand, are being relied on more and more to take care of clinical and diagnostic needs. Knowing how to do labs and EKGs takes practice and mastery of routing, but when, where, and why you do those varies greatly in a hospital setting, and even more so in urgent care centers where medical assistants are taking on even bigger roles.
At Cybertex, our medical assistant instructors prepare medical assistants for the ever-expanding roles they’re playing in medical facilities. The fast pace of the classes not only allow our students to get into the job market in less than a year after starting the program, it also prepares them for the pivots that they’ll have to make in any given day on the job. Being a medical assistant is never the same from day to day—and if that’s one of the reasons you’re drawn toward medicine for a career path, Cybertex’s program is designed to help you take on those challenges and be an integral part of a team that saves lives and guides the sick and injured to recovery.