First-time healthcare students, career changers, and working CNAs all find a place in California Career Institute’s Medical Assistant program. Learn how the program serves each path, plus the admission requirements every applicant needs to meet before starting the 40-week diploma.
From pharmacology and EKG to medical insurance and bookkeeping, California Career Institute’s Medical Assistant curriculum covers seven core modules plus professional development. Here is a look at the subject areas students study and how they connect to the daily work of a medical assistant.
Online theory paired with hands-on skills labs and a supervised externship: California Career Institute’s Medical Assistant program uses a hybrid format designed for students who are working, raising families, or returning to school. Here is how the 40-week structure comes together.
Every Medical Assistant student at California Career Institute completes a 200-hour supervised externship at an approved healthcare facility, with evaluations at the 100-hour and 200-hour marks. Here is a closer look at the skills students practice and the four areas the externship is built around.
You worked hard to become a Licensed Vocational Nurse — but your education does not have to stop there. California Career Institute’s Associate of Applied Science in Vocational Nursing is offered 100% online and designed to be completed in about 48 weeks, so you can keep working while you keep learning.
Dina Qahoush moved from Jordan to the United States to continue her nursing career, and today she supports Vocational Nursing students at California Career Institute from the beginning of their program to the end. She shares her story, her advice on clinical learning, and the moment that made it all worth it.
California Career Institute welcomed its newest MRI and Diagnostic Medical Sonography students at orientation on the Anaheim and Hawthorne campuses. Students met faculty and staff, learned what to expect from their programs, and began building connections with the classmates who will be learning right alongside them.
California Career Institute is proud to introduce our new Associate of Applied Science in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The program welcomed its very first students this September and is supported by a brand-new on-campus MRI lab where students train with real imaging equipment from day one.
The response to our newest Vocational Nursing cohort was so strong that California Career Institute opened an additional orientation to welcome even more students. To our new VN students: you are not doing this alone — your instructors, campus team, and classmates are here to support you.
