Drake State’s Medical Assisting Technology (MAT) associate degree program prepares students for rewarding careers in patient care. Medical assistants help physicians with a wide variety of patient care tasks and can work in physician offices, minor emergency centers, and other free-standing outpatient medical and health clinics. 

Students will learn how to:

• Perform patient physical assessments
• Take and record medical histories and vital signs
• Administer medications and treatments
• Assist with diagnostic procedures including electrocardiograms
• Perform venipuncture
• Interpret basic laboratory results
• Provide patient education
• Manage a clinic or physician office
• And many other skills