New York Career Medical Training Center of Queens?

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Has anyone taken a CNA course at this school? I've seen it mentioned on this site a few times when I searched the name, but I found a really negative response when searching for the address on google:

I decided to enroll in the cna course at new york medical career training center because I found the price more reasonable than most of the other locations that are offering the said course. When I visited the office to enroll, I was quickly handed the enrollment form and was told the amount I needed to pay. The process was rushed, it took 8 minutes. This was the only time while doing business with this school, that I received professional service. Every thing else was disorganised. Records are poorly kept. It took two months after completing the course, for me to recieve my certificate. They do not keep track of payments made by the students, if you loose your receipt, you are 'screwed'. Whenever I call the school to retrieve information, this is the response I get," ... the person who is in charge of that is not available. Call back in an hour." The receptionist has no customer service skills whatsoever, the only information you'll get from her is the cost of the tuition.She is of no help. The prices are very cheap and so are their services. I wasted my time and my money. I would suggest that you opt for the more professional training centers. Their prices are a little higher but I gaurantee that you will receive better value for your money. New York Medical Career Training Center is a waste of valuable time.

Anyone have any problems with them? I'd like to start in January, but maybe I should look at other programs.

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That review is right on target. I graduated from there. They are very disorganized (it's actually quite weird). Be sure to save your reciepts if you go there. Their programs are very short (about a month or less) and the tution is very cheap ($800 approx.) Low cost & less time was what attracted me. Doctors/nurses are instructors there. It's accredited by the NY Board of Ed (I believe). The plaque is posted on the wall by the secretary. The bathroom is kind of gross & tiny. There's no cafeteria. I tolerated everything and still got a decent education at a low price & in less time. The real education comes from on the job experience, not from a textbook. I hear that from everyone (CNA's). You're allowed to sit in on extra classes if you think you need more instruction or to make up classes. It's in Flushing.

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Thank you, I found out more about it and just like you said, it is disorganized. I saw a lot of good comments on the site about Manhattan Institute, however, and applied to that school instead.

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whats wrong with it? i think its a great place, they help you, and their prices are really low. if you don't bring things in a timely fashion, then yes u will have problems. the teachers are absolutely great. i had a wonderful teaching experience there, (cna)

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This school is a joke and shouldn't be certified.You pay a cheap price and you definitely get what you pay for. I wish I hadn't paid in full. I just finished my internship at the nursing home (waterview nursing home-Look up reviews-they are known for horrible service.) There is no place to eat/practice your skills for the state exam.There is no job placement either.The instructor for the "lecture" shows you how to do skills once while rushing you (and that's about it.She won't talk about chapters or give an overview or notes.All you do is read on your own and do homework) She has absolutely no patience or professionalism. She is very rude and gives you attitude when you ask valid questions. It also takes months to get a test date and your certificate.This school was the biggest disappointment and the biggest waste of money and time. I want my money back and advise on going elsewhere if you're interested in becoming a CNA.

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Hey OP. I know your post is almost 2 years old but I'd like to add my opinion of this place.

This school is a joke and shouldn't be certified.You pay a cheap price and you definitely get what you pay for. I wish I hadn't paid in full. I just finished my internship at the nursing home (waterview nursing home-Look up reviews-they are known for horrible service.) There is no place to eat/practice your skills for the state exam.There is no job placement either.The instructor for the "lecture" shows you how to do skills once while rushing you (and that's about it.She won't talk about chapters or give an overview or notes.All you do is read on your own and do homework) She has absolutely no patience or professionalism. She is very rude and gives you attitude when you ask valid questions. It also takes months to get a test date and your certificate.This school was the biggest disappointment and the biggest waste of money and time. I want my money back and advise on going elsewhere if you're interested in becoming a CNA.

Well that is on target! The instructor is often quite rude, rushes things and is impatient with most of the students. It's annoying that she doesn't let you do it on your own and is constantly barking at you. You also cannot practice after the class is finished, the classroom is closed immediately.

They didn't even mention anything about immunization and physicals during enrollment, only during the first day of class. They gave us about a week and a half as a deadline. The weekday class schedule of 9-1:30 consumes most of our time and they expect us to just jump to it. This is very unprofessional as most of us would have been able to schedule time to do all of those things had they informed us during enrollment. I had a week of vacation before class started and would've done it by then.

Your receipts and documents, hold on to them and make extra copies of your receipts. The secretary there gets easily confused. Seriously, make copies this is no joke.

The place is very small but well lit. The bathroom is a bit dirty but not that bad.

It's the price that made me go there in the first place but if you can afford a better school then I suggest you skip this place. The lower the tuition means the more self-study it's going to be.

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I have my state exam tomorrow after I finished the class months ago.I'm worried cause she only showed us the hands on skills once and her "study sheets" make absolutely no sense. There is nowhere that I could've practice besides my house. I should've never continued to go here.It's just wasted money. You can bet I'm writing to the state about this school as they are not qualified to have any certification

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I passed my CNA exam and am now looking for work!:)

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I took the four week (+1 wk of internship=5wks) course in July, and am looking to take the Patient Care Technician course after I get my certification. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I just finished graduate school in international relations studies (and am now exploring a healthcare career), and am accustomed to academia and working in an environment where a professional attitude is very important. (I mention a couple things in both pros & cons to try and be as objective as possible.)

PROS: (1) Price is like a hundred dollars cheaper than most other schools. While NYMTC advertises its CNA program (for example) as $699, after you pay for the book, registration fee it's $819. Then add on the $115 for the NY state exam and it's $934. Other CNA programs I've looked into in both the NYC area and in Connecticut are closer to $1,000. (2) For someone like me who was in Flushing at the time, this was very easy to get to with walking/public transportation (buses & #7 subway). (3) As long as you have the money and can fill out the application, really ANYBODY can get in. Even if English isn't your strongest language. (*not insulting foreign lang speakers, just noting that I had classmates who did not always follow along class because the teacher spoke too fast for them. Most of us had no problem with her speed, including me.) (4) They will look for an internship for you. (*no they don't provide transportation for you.) (5) For someone like me who just got out of school and likes being busy, the weekly class was very manageable. I could've had a part time job and be just fine. (6) *********, the CNA course instructor, is very straightforward, no ** with her. She's there to teach you just enough to pass the state exam and if you're willing to listen to her and not take any side comments personally, you'll do fine. If you mess up on a skill during class, she will make sure you know. (*this can be a con too, but for me it was good b/c her hounding really helped me to remember what NOT to do) If you're serious about being a CNA or even going beyond, she will give you advice on avenues through which you can train to be an LPN or RN. (*this was during an informal conversation that my class brought up - we were asking her how much CNAs/LPNs get paid, and what the differences are, and what schools have cheap tuition AND are nationally accredited, etc..)

CONS: (1) Price of $699 for CNA class does not include everything. Some may prefer the ~$1,000 programs for convenience (make sure to check what all you're actually paying for). Often times, those programs already include everything you need (e.g. uniform, textbook, fee for state test). (2) Lack of professional attitude in the office - this includes the receptionist desk and the instructor I had,*******. What this means is that the receptionist and ****** did not always show respect to students, and/or were rude. From my personal observations, it seems the office is short-staffed (e.g. receptionist doing 10 things at once, not always pleasant) ... or it could just be individual personalities. In terms of *****, the times she showed disrespect would be in class. Once, in our class she was commenting on the men in our class, saying under her breath that she had never seen a group like ours "with such sorry ass sperm". She's also called our class the worse class she has ever had. (3) Facilities: as mentioned before (by another commentor), bathroom is kind of grimy (unacceptable at a MEDICAL Career TRAINING Center).

*note: You MUST be a good note taker in class (or have a great memory). She gave us handouts on how to do a skill the way the state wants you to do it on the exam, but sometimes those were inaccurate. There are certain big picture things and detailed things you learn during class that you just have to remember or write down.

*note: It seems the main thing during my time here was how well a person could take ****** during class. Seriously, you can't take her comments personally and you just have to let her intense and sometimes brash personality roll off your shoulders. A couple classmates left not because material was difficult, but because they just could not learn from ****. (Nobody's fault - if your personality clashes that badly, then it clashes that badly. Either you deal with it or walk away from it.)

Good luck everyone. For me the material is not difficult to memorize - the thing is just to practice the skills over and over again so you can do it smoothly and confidently on the state exam. Hope this was helpful!

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it's not taking what she says personally it's the fact that she sounds uneducated in how she speaks and she's unprofessionally. She's disrespectful to all around her ALL of the time. If she hates her job she should either suck it up and be professional or she should just find a new job and go back to nursing. She walks out in the middle of class so students are left alone guessing what they should do because she never let anyone use the paper while they were doing the skills. and she only showed us ONCE how to do it. The material isn't hard but you get what you pay for. it's ridiculous. and they don't look for you for internships that comes with the program.

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I went there a couple of months ago

What everyone says here is true:

-Unprofessional ( CNA Instructor and receptionist)

-The receptionist, the middle age woman, she treats us like idiots. There was a time she lost my receipt and blamed it on me, insisting she gave it to me. Later on she found it on her desk, made a grin and mumbled an apology. This has happened to other students as well.

- The female CNA instructor is incredibly unprofessional and I dare say uneducated. She misspells the most basic words it's not even funny. Some profanity in between as well.

-The training is rushed and the photocopy containing the skills she gives you is chock full of erasures and arrows interchanging step x to step y. How hard can Microsoft word be?

-Want to ask questions during training? Just make sure the instructor is in a good mood. If not, your answer will come in a form of a sneer and insult or sarcasm.

The only good thing there was the clinicals instructor, Mr. *.

He was patient, calm and genuinely wanted to teach the students.

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PROS: (1) Price is like a hundred dollars cheaper than most other schools. While NYMTC advertises its CNA program (for example) as $699, after you pay for the book, registration fee it's $819. Then add on the $115 for the NY state exam and it's $934. Other CNA programs I've looked into in both the NYC area and in Connecticut are closer to $1,000. (2) For someone like me who was in Flushing at the time, this was very easy to get to with walking/public transportation (buses & #7 subway). (3) As long as you have the money and can fill out the application, really ANYBODY can get in. Even if English isn't your strongest language. (*not insulting foreign lang speakers, just noting that I had classmates who did not always follow along class because the teacher spoke too fast for them. Most of us had no problem with her speed, including me.) (4) They will look for an internship for you. (*no they don't provide transportation for you.) (5) For someone like me who just got out of school and likes being busy, the weekly class was very manageable. I could've had a part time job and be just fine. (6) *********, the CNA course instructor, is very straightforward, no ** with her. She's there to teach you just enough to pass the state exam and if you're willing to listen to her and not take any side comments personally, you'll do fine. If you mess up on a skill during class, she will make sure you know. (*this can be a con too, but for me it was good b/c her hounding really helped me to remember what NOT to do) If you're serious about being a CNA or even going beyond, she will give you advice on avenues through which you can train to be an LPN or RN. (*this was during an informal conversation that my class brought up - we were asking her how much CNAs/LPNs get paid, and what the differences are, and what schools have cheap tuition AND are nationally accredited, etc..)

CONS: (1) Price of $699 for CNA class does not include everything. Some may prefer the ~$1,000 programs for convenience (make sure to check what all you're actually paying for). Often times, those programs already include everything you need (e.g. uniform, textbook, fee for state test).

*note: You MUST be a good note taker in class (or have a great memory). She gave us handouts on how to do a skill the way the state wants you to do it on the exam, but sometimes those were inaccurate. There are certain big picture things and detailed things you learn during class that you just have to remember or write down.

Good luck everyone. For me the material is not difficult to memorize - the thing is just to practice the skills over and over again so you can do it smoothly and confidently on the state exam. Hope this was helpful!

**EDITED 11/2: Because I approached the CNA instructor and school director with my concerns, who took them into consideration. I suggest that if you have qualms with the school, definitely share them! The director and the CNA instructor are open to listening to your perspective. They do care about setting you up for success on your license exams.

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