Clinical Skills Institute expands its $900 online medical assistant program, preparing students for the NHA CCMA exam ...

Medical assistants — who take measurements, draw blood and fill out documentation before a patient sees a doctor — are in high demand nationally and short supply locally. To remedy its shortage, ...

In this Putting It Into Practice column, Jonathan D. Leffert, MD, FACP, MACE, ECNU, talks with Jyothi Mamidi Juarez, MD, ECNU ...

There’s a shortage of medical assistants nationwide, but a new program is working to combat it. After losing his sales job after decades in the industry, Joe Lesniak is starting a new career in ...

There is a workforce gap opening up in healthcare — and it is not at the physician or specialist level. It is in the clinics, ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Why Become a Certified Medical Administrative Assistant? The healthcare field offers one of the leading areas of opportunities for career growth today. Within healthcare, specialized medical ...

After Medscape Nurses posted Can I Delegate This Task to a Medical Assistant?, many readers submitted additional questions about the role of medical assistants. What can medical assistants do, legally ...

No Botox injections. And now no flu shots. Medical officials learned last week that medical assistants had long been illegally administering the anti-wrinkle drug Botox. Now it turns out that the same ...

Indianapolis Medical Assistant School will open its Avon campus on April 25, offering an 18-week, hands-on medical ...