NOW RECRUITING FOR THE JULY 2026 CLASS!
Interested in furthering your career by becoming a Medical Assistant?
Baptist Health Medical Group is looking for individuals interested in completing training to be a Medical Assistant and get paid while doing so!
Program requires classroom-based instruction and work in a clinical externship at a Baptist Medical Practice.
How It Works:
Trainees will attend 4 weeks of classroom-based learning. After completing the classroom curriculum, they will be placed with an experienced Preceptor for 120 hours of training & validations of skills Under the supervision of a designated Preceptor, the MA Trainee gain insight into the MA career field while also applying what the MA has learned in their program to get hands on experience in a medical practice. The MA Trainee will be supervised at all times and will not perform any tasks without the approval of the Preceptor. The Preceptor will train the student on the coordination of direct patient care activities/clinical skills and providing clinical support to providers within one of our clinical practices.
Requirements:
Work Experience
Relevant Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
