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title: 4 Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Medical Assisting Student
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date_published: 2015-04-09
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# 4 Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Medical Assisting Student

Being a Medical Assisting student at Arizona College is very exciting!  From the
first day of class, students are integrated with other new Medical Assisting
students, as well as, those who are in various stages of
[their program](https://www.arizonacollege.edu/all-programs/medical-assisting/).
  It doesn’t take long before students make friends and form groups who often
study together before or after class and attend open lab.  Students often have a
lot in common and are like-minded; since the idea of providing care to others
intrigued them to
[become a Medical Assistant](https://www.arizonacollege.edu/all-programs/medical-assisting/become-medical-assistant/)
.  There are 4 things that you might not have known about being a Medical
Assistant student at Arizona College:

1. **Learn Valuable Front Office/Administration skills as part of the Medical Assisting curriculum.**
   Being a Medical Assistant requires the flexibility and knowledge to work in
   both front office and back office environments. Because of this, Medical
   Assisting students at Arizona College learn how a medical Front Office
   operates.  This includes:
2. - Patient check in and check out
   - Payment processing
   - Appointment scheduling
   - Patient billing
   - Phone call processing
   - Health insurance coverage verification
   - Medical record organization
   - Utilizing computer applications
3. **Open lab is available to perfect those Medical Assisting procedures.**
   Students have the option to attend open lab and gain additional lab time.  Open
   lab is supervised by one of our Medical Assisting instructors, who are able to
   provide one-on-one guidance to master skills such as venipuncture, injections,
   mouth swabs, urine dips, EKG’s and vital signs.  Open lab is a great
   opportunity to ask any additional questions one might have for certain
   procedures and to gain the confidence needed to excel.
4. **Learn to work in a variety of medical specialties. **Students at Arizona
   College learn the skills required to work in multiple medical environments. 
   Examples include:  Pediatrics, Family Practice, Obstetrics and Gynecology,
   Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Dermatology and Assisted Living Facilities.  Each
   specialty has basic duties that the Medical Assistant will perform, but each
   will also have more detailed, specialty-specific duties required depending on
   the patient’s condition and orders of the physician.
5. **Give back to the community. **The Program Directors at Arizona College often
   arrange events in which they volunteer their time and skills with their
   students in order to give back to the community.  Medical Assisting students in
   particular, have attended healthcare events where they have checked vital signs
   and blood sugar levels for those in need.  This is not only great hands-on
   practice for students; it is an excellent way for students to gain real-world
   experience while interacting with the general public in their new Medical
   Assisting role.

A career as a Medical Assistant is one that you can be proud of.  On a daily
basis, Medical Assistants provide much needed care to patients and work
side-by-side with other healthcare professionals.  If you are looking for
information on
[how to become a Medical Assistant](https://www.arizonacollege.edu/all-programs/medical-assisting/become-medical-assistant/)
; the first step is to find
[an accredited school](https://www.arizonacollege.edu/accreditation-affiliations/)
, like Arizona College.  Call the school and take a tour…is it a place that you
can imagine calling home until you complete your education?  Talk to fellow
students, what impressions do you have?  If you would like to start your Medical
Assisting journey with us, we would love to have you.  Learn more today!

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_Information in this blog post is accurate as of April 9, 2015._

**Categories:** AZC Healthcare Programs