Medical Assisting Gives Students A Gateway Into Healthcare

Whether they’re checking vital signs, drawing blood or filling out paperwork, medical assistants are the backbone of any physician’s practice. GTC’s Medical Assisting program gives students the skills they need to fill that crucial role.

“With medical assisting they have administrative skills and they also have clinical skills,” says instructor Terry Forrest. “It gives them a pretty large platform.”

Students come to the program from all walks of life and educational backgrounds and, for many of them, medical assisting is a way into the thriving healthcare sector.

“It opens a lot of doors, especially for our nontraditional students, for careers they never would have thought of,” says Forrest.

Forrest says many of those non-traditional students join the program to help kickstart careers in healthcare after working unsatisfying jobs or having trouble finding work at all.

GTC TV News brings you this intimate look at some of their stories and plans for the future.