Medical Assistant Schools in North Dakota

Are you hoping to find a career that offers a challenging and rewarding work environment -- one that allows you to work with professional health care practitioners? If so, there are a number of medical assistant schools in North Dakota that offer health care training that many of today's employers value.

Medical assistant training is hands-on. You learn by doing, and you can gain practical experience that can potentially transfer to a real job. Medical assisting can be a rewarding career, especially if you like the thought of helping people address their health care needs. After you graduate from your medical assistant program and find employment, your job responsibilities may include taking a patient's blood pressure, checking a patient's vital signs, informing patients about medical procedures, and much more.

In 2011, medical assistants in the lower 10 percentile earned around $21,000. For the same year, annual median salaries for medical assistants was $27,300. In 2008, North Dakota employed 580 medical assistants. The total number of employed medical assistants by 2018 is a projected to increase by 23 percent (720 medical assistants total).

• Rasmussen College

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