I graduated from MTI in 2010 as a Medical Assistant with a 4.0 GPA and Honors.\r
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It was a complete waste of time.\r
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First off, they don't teach everything an MA needs. They do not cover suture removal, wound care, lavage, or any other number of things that are needed on the day-to-day job. After talking to long time Medical Assistants who graduated from other colleges, I have learned that the teaching methods and equipment used at MTI is out of date.\r
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Secondly, they're "externship" program is a joke. After you get your "training", you work at a doctor's office for a few weeks with real patients...except where I was placed (and I've been told this is the norm) that you end up working on everything else except patients. I was stuck doing file work for about two weeks, and was told point blank, "you do this more than anything until you get some experience"....isn't an externship where you get hands on training working on patients? If what they are saying is true, then why in the
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