Earn your MA diploma in as few as 9 months
At Unitek College in Sacramento, the Medical Assisting program prepares you to confidently support patient care through a balance of clinical and administrative training. With hands-on labs and applied instruction, you’ll learn essential skills used daily in medical offices and clinics. The curriculum emphasizes accuracy, professionalism, and patient-centered care, key traits for success in healthcare roles.
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The Medical Assisting curriculum at our Sacramento campus is designed to deliver a well-rounded, career-focused education that blends classroom learning with hands-on training. Throughout the program, you’ll build practical knowledge in essential clinical and administrative areas, gaining experience through simulations and a supervised externship that mirrors real healthcare environments. Instruction emphasizes not only technical skill development, such as laboratory techniques, clinical procedures, and medication administration, but also the professional standards that define quality patient care, including ethics, communication, and medical law. By graduation, you’ll have both the confidence and applied experience needed to pursue entry-level Medical Assistant roles in clinics, physicians’ offices, hospitals, nursing care facilities, and other healthcare settings.
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The Sacramento campus provides a supportive, student-centered learning environment designed to help Medical Assisting students succeed from day one. Inside, students benefit from well-equipped classrooms, hands-on skills labs, a campus library, a student lounge, and dedicated administrative and clerical support areas that encourage focused learning and collaboration. Other benefits of our Sacramento campus include small class sizes and flexible scheduling designed to support your success. With classes capped at 24 students, you’ll benefit from more personalized instruction and meaningful interaction with your instructors. The program also offers morning, mid-morning, mid-day, and evening options, giving working adults the flexibility to balance education with other commitments.
Beyond campus, Sacramento offers a vibrant setting known for its diversity, modern culture, and celebrated farm-to-table dining scene. The city is also home to destinations such as the Old Sacramento Historic District, a U.S. National Historic Landmark that attracts visitors from across the country. Rounding out the experience, the campus has been recognized for its commitment to educational quality, earning designation as a “School of Excellence” from the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) in 2020, an acknowledgment of strong student achievement and continued dedication to high academic standards.
Reinforce your hands-on training through flexible online coursework designed to support your understanding of key medical concepts and the reasoning behind clinical procedures. Using digital textbooks and interactive learning tools, you’ll complete assignments that complement your lab experience, allowing you to maximize time practicing skills on campus while maintaining the flexibility to balance school with work and personal responsibilities.
Train in hands-on environments designed to reflect real medical office settings, where classroom instruction and skills training take place in the same space so you can immediately apply what you learn. You’ll work with industry-standard equipment and task trainers, including EKG machines, phlebotomy stations, injection arms, infant manikins, wound care simulators, autoclaves, and centrifuges, helping you build confidence and develop the practical skills needed to perform essential patient care tasks in real healthcare environments.
Situated near the Capital City Freeway, the Sacramento campus is located in a well-connected area that offers convenient access to surrounding neighborhoods and key destinations across the region. This central location supports an easy commute for students traveling from across the greater Sacramento area, while keeping the campus close to major employment centers, healthcare facilities, and community resources that support hands-on training and future career opportunities.
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*These placement rates are based on program-specific and campus-specific data reported to our institutional accreditor(s) in 2024. While the figures shown here are not separately reported to our accreditor, they are derived from those outcomes. For full details by program and campus, please visit our Disclosures page.
