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Hands-On Medical Assistant Training

If you’re interested in helping others and are looking to break into or advance in a rewarding healthcare career (without spending years in school), practical Medical Assistant with Phlebotomy career training could be a great fit.

Skilled Medical Assistants perform clinical tasks with direct patient interaction and administrative front office tasks. Professionals in this field help to ensure that doctors offices, clinics, hospitals and other vital healthcare settings run smoothly.

The Medical Assisting Diploma and Degrree Programs from IBMC College offer the hands-on training, expert instruction and professional support you need to become a skilled healthcare professional in as little as 12 months.*

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Hands-On Labs

Clinical Externship

Flexible Schedules

Get the Skills to Become a Qualified Medical Assistant 

Interested in a healthcare career but worried about things like time constraints or childcare responsibilities?

Get the skills to get ahead without putting your entire life on hold. Choose from convenient Day or Evening classes. Balance things like work, family and other responsibilities while you train for a brighter future.

  • Medical Assistant Diploma – 12 Months*
  • Medical Assistant Degree – 19 Months*

5-Week Externship

At the end of your program, you’ll complete a 5-week externship in a real healthcare setting.  You won’t just observe. You’ll support patients, work alongside medical professionals, and apply your skills in a clinical environment.

Add real experience to your resume and get a chance to make connections in the industry as you prepare to move smoothly from student to professional.

 

Why Train to Become an Medical Assistant

Make An Impact

Step into a vital role where you are the first face patients see and the trusted hand that guides them through their most anxious moments.

Build Your Foundation

Use your experience as a Medical Assistant to gain a front-row seat to the medical world, opening doors to future specializations in cardiology, pediatrics, nursing and more.

Heart of Healthcare

As a Clinical Medical Assistant, your dual skillset in clinical procedures and medical office management makes you an indispensable asset in any healthcare setting.

Growing Opportunity

The projected 23% job growth** for Medical Assistants in Colorado provides the potential benefit of long-term career security, so you can feel stable in your professional future.

Why Medical Assistant School With IBMC College

This program offers hands-on healthcare training and externships. You’ll be working with other students in labs while you learn the skills you need for your new career such as: taking vitals, injections, preparation of lab specimens, blood draws (phlebotomy), equipment sterilization, dressing changes, suture removal, cast removal, and EKGs.

As a graduate of an Medical Assistant program, you’ll be fully prepared to sit for the following industry certifications:

  • Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)
  • Registered Phlebotomy Technician 
  • Basic Life Support (BLS)

While a degree isn’t required to start your career as a Medical Assistant, our Associates Degree (AOS) combines the core clinical training of our diploma with advanced management and business leadership to provide a strong foundation for your future career goals. 

IBMC’s Career Services team is committed to helping you before and after graduation! Our team provides current students and graduates with the resources they need to market themselves effectively and become sought-after employees.

We’re dedicated to helping remove barriers between you and the future you want. Knowledgeable Financial Aid Representatives can work with you to help you explore your options and determine the funding opportunities that may be available for you.

As part of our commitment to accelerated training, we offer class starts multiple times a year — because when you are ready to change your life, there’s no reason to wait.

At IBMC, we offer students the opportunity to attend day or evening classes that fit their life. Choose the schedule that works for you.

Next Class Starts June 29, 2026!

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Career Opportunities

Qualified Medical Assistants work in variety of interesting healthcare settings, including:

  • Family practices
  • Pediatric and specialty clinics
  • Hospitals
  • Community health centers
  • Labs and diagnostic facilities
  • Chiropractic and physical therapy offices

The hours can vary by workplace; whether you prefer traditional 9am to 5pm, shift work, full-time or part-time, in this profession you can pursue the work schedule that works best for you.

How Will IBMC Prepare Me for My Medical Assisting Career?

At IBMC College, we know well-rounded healthcare skills aren’t learned only from textbooks and lectures. As a student in one of the Medical Assisting programs at IBMC, you’ll learn hands-on through practical activities led by industry experienced instructors. Courses include:

  • Medical Terminology
  • Medical Office Procedures
  • Medical Clinical Procedures
  • Basic Anatomy & Physiology
  • Pharmacology

You’ll pick up new skills quickly when you get to learn in a practical lab setting. Skills such as:

  • Taking Vitals
  • Injections
  • Blood Draws (Phlebotomy)
  • Preparation of Lab Specimens
  • Equipment Sterilization
  • Dressing Changes
  • Suture Removal
  • Cast Removal
  • EKGs

Our Medical Assistant graduates enter the professional world with confidence, fully prepared to make a smooth transition from student to healthcare professional.

What Our Graduates Say

Hear more about Jubilee's journey

I am a graduate from the MA program. I also did the associates degree program as well. I maintained my 4.0 and am now working at UC Health. I graduated high school. I was in Arizona. I moved out here to attend UNCC’s nursing program and realized that I want to be an MA more than I want to be a nurse. So, I found this great program and I’m currently a pediatric MA and just want to gain experience. This program was wonderful. I wanted a program to help get this degree. There’s not a lot of places that really offer MA with an associates degree. So, it was a really great program for me to get all of that done.

Jubilee Levit, Medical Assisting Degree Graduate

Hear more about Ella's journey

I was a preschool teacher for about a year and a half, and then I was in school getting my education license and I decided I wasn’t in love with it, so I decided to go back to hair ’cause I’ve been doing that since I was like 15..I immediately got licensed and now I’m working at Floyd’s, down in Fort Collins..In the next few years I wanna get my citizenship overseas and then take my trade and be able to cut over there and learn some new techniques and be able to further my education that IBMC has given me the foundation for.

Ella Bass, Barbering Graduate

Hear more about Chris's journey

My favorite part of the program is just everybody helping each other, just engaging and meeting the barbers, wanting the same thing as I did, and just not letting each other fail. We just pushed each other. If there’s something in your heart or in your mind that you wanna do, go out and do it. ’cause, tomorrow’s not promised…take charge of your life and go out and do it. I definitely think all of the IBMC instructors, administrators, they had a big part in helping me so shout out to them. my family and friends.

Chris Garcia, Barbering Graduate

Hear more about Cameron's journey

I was tired of hopping from job to job, so I definitely wanted a career as opposed to something I just did to pay the bills. The legal field is a lot of research and I like research. Also, paralegals do beyond research, a lot of investigation and due diligence to find expert witnesses or to find information about clients, anything like that. I’m excited. I also wanna do life coaching and then from that I’ll merge my paralegal experience with the life coaching to do mediation.

Cameron Fear, Paralegal Graduate

Hear more about Alexandra's journey

Right now I’m a medical assistant. I am working at MBI right now. Before IBMC I just graduated from high school and I was doing a break before doing what I wanted to do, and I knew I wanted to go into the medical field somehow. So I was like, you know what? A good start to that would be becoming a medical assistant. My favorite part of the program was for sure the how much hands-on we had. I liked how quick it was and how efficient it was. Like I felt like the more hands-on I did, the more I would understand what I was doing. Words of advice would really be, enjoy your time, take your time with your things, and just honestly have fun with it. Shout out to myself for doing it and my friends and my family out there.

Alexandra Mondragon Banuelos, Medical Assisting Graduate

Kelly Butts

Medical Assisting Graduate

I was starting to go to college for psychology and decided I wanted to graduate quicker in the medical field and decided to go ahead and start IBMC for the medical associate. My vision is to get into [Medical Assisting] with a psychology mental health, behavioral health situation, and then go to school and become a psychologist. [Favorite part of the program?] Probably medical terminology. I love that part of it. I’m a nerd, so I like that part of it, but I like the hands on. I really enjoyed injections and blood draws, so I like that as well. Yeah, I’m pretty excited for it.

Mariah Kitzman

Esthetician Graduate

What would I say to somebody considering enrolling at IBMC? Do it. Just do it. Honestly, the teachers and especially Mary—she always just made sure that I had everything that I needed and helped me accommodate anyway I needed.

Yathziry Cordova

Cosmetology Graduate

My name is Yatiri Korva. I’m graduating from the Longmont campus on Cosmetology. I am starting my own business in Lash Extensions. Just expanding my business more and branching out to do more facials and specialize more in chemical peels and Lash Extensions. Honestly, it’s a great program. You get to meet lifelong friends that I’m currently here with. And I don’t think that I’ll ever stop being friends with them and you honestly learn so much about the industry without even realizing it and you’re a lot more prepared at the end of it than you think you are.

Marzelina Cisnero-Ruiz

Cosmetology Graduate

My name’s Marzelina. I’m graduating today from IBMC in Greeley from Cosmetology. My mother inspired me to do cosmetology. She always knew how to make everybody feel beautiful in their own skin and their own hair and I want to be part of that. I’m looking forward to digging deeper into working with ethnic hair and that hair community. So, it’s super exciting and super fun.

Mckenzie Hall

Cosmetology Graduate

Jesse and Dustin were by far amazing; they taught me everything I know out on the floor. They made every day so much fun and morning lessons and everything that they taught us.

My advice to somebody who’s considering enrolling: be on time, come prepared, and then try and learn something new every single day and work hard and it all pays off in the end.

Llaneli Barajas Duran

Cosmetology Graduate

I’ve had a great experience at IBMC. My favorite instructor was Jesse and Dustin. They taught me a lot with hair and highlights. I want to build my own business and do nails.

Jordan Tajchman

Cosmetology Graduate

My favorite class was probably color. I think that color and also skin and nails have really become my strong suit and what I’m looking forward to doing. It’s definitely a great experience and you learn a lot. My advice is definitely research and see what you want to do because some people go in just for skin and so it might be better to just do that, but it’s definitely a great experience.

Nicky Vargus

Barbering Graduate

Hi, my name is Nikki. I’m graduating from Barbering School and my favorite thing from school was meeting all the new people and learning all different type of techniques. I am looking forward to working at a barber shop and hopefully opening a barber shop of my own. My favorite thing to do was cutting up beards, trimming them up and stuff like that.

Jason Kneiszler

Barbering Graduate

It was definitely worth it. It was kind of almost like all the lessons I learned besides hair cutting and besides the sanitation procedures and things like that. You know, how to take constructive criticism, active listening, sharpened up my communication skills a lot better. Yeah, it was definitely worth it.

Amanda McDaniel

Medical Assistant Graduate

I am Amanda McDaniel and I am graduating today from Medical Assistant. I actually currently work over at Summitstone and Behavioral Health. I work at Aiman Wellness, which is with the probation department… I have 80 patients right now. I love them all. I just want them to succeed and not go back in the area that they’re at right now… I am so happy I did this.

Is a Career as a Clinical Medical Assistant Right for You?

If you’re curious about a future in healthcare and training to be a Medical Assistant, fill out the form to get a closer look at life at IBMC College.

You’ll receive more details about the Medical Assistant program, and one of our friendly Admissions Representatives will be available to help you explore your options, answer your questions, and see if this path feels like the right fit for you.

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*Program length when completed as designed.
**SOURCE: O*Net Online Colorado Employment Trends (accessed May 2026)
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