The Medical Assistant Student will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced healthcare environment while assisting healthcare professionals in providing exceptional patient care. During your program you will be attending classroom/didactic instruction to learn scope of practice for medical assistants in collection of laboratory specimens, collection procedures, medication administration, patient care skills, subjective and objective data collection. You will work along a preceptor who will mentor and precept them in the skills that they are learning in the classroom in addition to real time experiences in the clinic setting throughout their internship. At the end of the 720 hour internship, the medical assistant student will be expected to take and pass a national certification exam for a medical assistant.