Did medical assistant school provide hands-on training?
Once I finished my classes, I was required to do a 100-hour externship, working in a doctor’s office. That was so interesting. In school you get to know the other students, but in the office you’re meeting new people every day. You don’t know who you’ll meet or what kind of medical conditions they’ll have. I worked for a D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathy) for the externship. He was a nice guy, and he taught me a lot. He also had a medical assistant working for him, who was doing everything I’d been practicing in school. It was a great experience. I learned to do things I hadn’t done in school, like assisting with a Pap smear. It helped me learn to work directly with patients.
