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Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

Specializes in med/surg and Tele.

I dont know why these things are even legal. I cant think if a way to make that situation positive for you. 15K is WAY to much money. Sorry you made such a sacrafice monitarily for this. :(

Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

CNA and Medical Assistant are two very different jobs.

Which one did you want to be?

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Because you have to make mistakes to learn from them. Don't worry, lots of people have asked themselves that question.

Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

Sorry, can't help you with that one ...

I think a lot of these v. expensive private vocational schools are little more than scams, and they prey on people who just don't know any better.

What you can do is continue your education, perhaps finish an Associates degree in Medical Assisting at a Community College, and then work at a highter pay potential.

I want to be an RN. But I was looking for a quick way to break into the medical field. I do feel like a sucker because the education is very sub par. The teachers don't even teach you its the other students helping you out! I was thinking of quitting half way through but I knew that would make me look like a quitter. Some students have gotten jobs as ma's after the program though. Ill be done in march. Right now Im just trying to learn all I can and applying for jobs from nurses aid, to caregiver, to MA, to medical receptionist. I just need to be in the environment and with a steady job.

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Hey, a lot of facilities have STNA training-and they'll pay for nursing school, but being an MA and a nurse are two different things.

^^^ whats STNA training? I totally agree that MA/RN are way different. I think I'm going to get my CNA anyway since its so quick and inexpensive and along the lines of what I actually want to do. But please tell me more about this STNA training?

And thanks for everyones replys so far :)

Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg.
Pay $15,000 for a year long medical assisting training program when I could have paid $150 for an 8 week long CNA course. Someone spin this in a positive for me please.

Well, even if the pay is high, your training as an MA will bring you valuable knowledge help you through a CNA course... Just take all you can from the experience, get to work on clearing that debt away, and find a good CNA program.

Good luck!

Specializes in LTC, Oncology/Women's Health; Med/Surg.

i paid $25,000 for my medical assisting degree. I got a job, worked for a few months, then decided to go back to school for nursing. TBH the pay was NOT good enough to live on. That was also in 2006, things might be a little different now!

Thanks guys!

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