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Medical Assistant

CCMA

A bigger curriculum, the identical compliance machinery.

Medical assistants work both the clinical and front-office sides of outpatient care, with a standard ~160-hour supervised externship and a psychomotor competency set. The curriculum is larger than CNA, but the compliance backbone — skills checklist, externship hours, preceptor sign-off — is exactly the same.

At a glance

Credential
NHA CCMA · AAMA CMA · AMT RMA
Exam
NHA CCMA / AAMA CMA / AMT RMA
Regulator
National certification · not state-licensed
Hours
~600–900 total hrs · ~160 hr externship · Externship + competency credential

Competency model

MAERB competency + externship ledger
$44,200

median · $21.25/hr

+12%

2024–2034 · much faster than average

~112,300

openings / year

National

certification

Why the demand: Outpatient-care expansion and physician-office growth — one of the highest-opening allied-health roles in the country. BLS OOH, Medical Assistants, May 2024.

The program

What students master.

The curriculum maps to the credential — every competency below becomes a tracked, signed-off record inside the platform.

1

Clinical skills

  • Vital signs & EKG
  • Injections & phlebotomy
  • Specimen collection
  • Assisting with exams
2

Administrative skills

  • Scheduling & EHR
  • Insurance & coding basics
  • Patient intake
  • HIPAA & front-office workflow
3

Externship

  • ~160 supervised hours
  • Preceptor + site-supervisor sign-off
  • MAERB psychomotor competencies
  • Certification-ready portfolio

On the platform

How AscendantCare runs CCMA.

This isn't a new build — it's the CNA compliance backbone, configured. The same ledgers, the same sign-off, the same inspection-grade records.

  • 1

    Larger curriculum, same rails

    Vitals, injections, phlebotomy and EKG are skill-checklist items; the 160-hour externship is the clinical ledger.

  • 2

    Dual sign-off

    Preceptor and site-supervisor co-sign each competency — the platform already models multi-party attestation.

  • 3

    High-volume vertical

    112,300 annual openings make MA one of the strongest revenue verticals for a school operator.

The competitive edge

112,300 openings a year, certification-eligibility documentation that’s audit-clean by default.

On the roadmap

Roadmap — a flagship Tier-2 vertical.

Enrollment

Who can enroll.

Six-gate enrollment compliance verifies every prerequisite before a student starts — and flags anything missing.

HS diploma / GED
Completion of an accredited program
Immunizations, background check, BLS/CPR

Run Medical Assistant on rails built for inspection.

Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you exactly how CCMA maps onto the platform — and where it sits on the build sequence.