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I came to PCI looking to make a career change.  I previously worked in the banking field for 10 years. Due to technology and going from paper to electronic the financial field was looking grim. I began my search for the best available medical office assistant program.  I came across PCI because the school provided job assistance thru their great externship program and long after you graduate.  I found that their personable instructors, hands - on learning and job placement to be among the high points for PCI. The journey took hard work, determination, and focus. Today you can find me working at the Renaissance Hospital as the Intake Coordinator.  PCI has prepared me to handle all of the pros and cons of the medical office.  I hope you enjoy your experience at PCI and your new career in the medical field.
Sincerely,
Carmen,  Medical Office Assistant Graduate August 2007 Dallas Campus

I am sure everyone's situations is different, but before PCI, I felt stuck at a job I didn't like, making hardly any money for the work I was doing. I decided to go back to school because the medical field really interested me. The instructors were great, and the hours where setup to let me sill be able to work. I met all kinds of new people and it was actually fun. When I left PCI i had the confidence to go and interview, and got hired on my extern site. Now, a year later I am still here with great money and benefits. I am very grateful for PCI for changing the direction of my life.
Thanks
Susannah,  Medical Office Assistant Graduate April 2007 Dallas Campus
 

My name is Sharon,  I attended PCI health Training Center to become a medical assistant.  After years of doubting myself I was encouraged by my fiancé to attend school and get a degree.  After talking with Terry Smiles about what PCI could offer, I made a decision to enroll.  My instructor was very encouraging and kept us motivated.  After months in the classroom I went to externship and found out that I could do anything I set my mind to.  The extern site was helpful and willing to teach additional skills.  Career services worked with me to find employment in the medical field.

Sharon, Medical Assistant Graduate April 2008 Dallas Campus

My experience coming to PCI was one that made a big impact on my life. I was first very scared about coming because I knew I might be giving shots. But after getting a tour of the facility and knowing the stuff I knew it was going to be a good experience. After a few weeks of class and lab I felt very comfortable about the decision I made. I am happy that I made the choice to come to PCI. It has changed my life for the better.
Thank You PCI!!

Jeff, Medical Assistant Graduate January 2007 Richardson Campus

I was enrolled and completed the psychiatric assistant / LCDC program in 2001 under the teacher ms. Langston. I have always wanted to but never took the time to tell you how much attending PCI changed my life. When I started I knew that I was ready to make a change in my life and do something different, but I didn’t really know how that was going to happen. Well not only did the knowledge that I received from PCI help me make those designs that needed to be made, it also aided me in getting my personal life together. The teacher had a “yes I’m in your face making you deal with your stuff” kind of approach that was incredible. The teacher challenged me beyond what I thought I could do and this helped me face my biggest fears. She always let us know that before you get into this work you have to deal with your own personal daemons first. I didn’t think she liked me in the beginning, but now I almost fell as though I owe her my life.

She sent me to Johnny’s Manor to do my LCDC practicum and that’s where it all began foe me. Johnny’s manor was a HIV/ AIDS congregate housing facility for clients that were also substance abusers. You may ask why is this relevant well it’s only if you believe in divine intervention. I was supposed to do my internship somewhere else, but the teacher made the choice for me to go to Johnny’s manor. It was the HIV /IDS program that I connected with from the moment that I met those clients and understood the real need in our community I knew I was in the right place at the right time.

While at Johnny’s Manor I was introduced first hand to real world of HIV/AIDS and I started doing health groups. It was in those groups that I realized how limited my knowledge of HIV was, but increased my knowledge of the underlining issues of HIV that far out weigh the diagnosis. So with that I started my quest for knowledge, and I would attend workshops and classes, and seminars and etc, etc, etc. I became an HIV/AIDS advocate speaking at local churches, community affairs, community centers and college campus just any where that people would listen to me. My reward came in January of 2005 while browsing the Internet for other training opportunities I came upon a training from The Black AIDS Institutes African American HIV University. I made an application and in April of 2005 I was accepted into their 2 year program, I will be graduation June 10, 2007. The program consist of 540 intense hours of HIV education where we study everything from HIV 101, HIV Life cycle, immunology, Pharmacokinetic, Pharmacogenetics, Vaccine Research to Epidemiology and this is just a few. The one main focus of the class is to know HIV and comeback to the community to help mobilize teach and dispel myths within our community that fuel stigmas that welcomes even more discrimination from within. It is imperative that we help the people in our community to understand the importance of testing and treatment.

I’m now an HIV Outreach Counselor and Prevention Educator I do HIV presentation all over the city and sometimes out of the city. I’m highly respected for the knowledge that I bring and the lives that I’m causing to change. I’m able to incorporate my skills from PCI with what I do such as facilitating groups understanding the dynamics within the group. Identifying behaviors just by using my objective and subjective listening skills I mean just to name a little bit. I will be returning to school in August 2007 at Dallas Baptist College to complete working toward my BS in Psychology. I owe so much of this to PCI, I mean had I not been there I would probably be still an Accounting Clerk somewhere doing a job without any real meaning. Again I want to say thank you guys so much for the time you gave me, and if you are able to contact Ms. Langston please tell her thank you and feel free to forward this e-mail to her.

Marsha,  psychiatric Assistant graduate September 2002 Dallas Campus

Dear PCI,
My name is Tiffany I am a proud graduate from PCI Health Training Center. I was enrolled in the Medical Office Assistant program and I enjoyed every minute of it. What inspired me the most was how the teachers and my classmates where very helpful and supportive. I graduated in December 2007 and it was a joyful experience to walk across a big stage with all the wonderful people whom had the same dreams as I once had. Since going to the school my life has changed my life I have a steady job now and I am the one calling the school looking for externs and future employees. I just wanted to take the time to say thank you very much for helping in a time of need. I truly have been blessed to attend such a divine school.

Sincerely
Tiffany,  Medical Office Assistant Graduate December 2007 Richardson Campus
 

Dear PCI,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the teachers, staff and students for making my journey there a success.  I have come through many hard trials and to know that this world still provides loving and caring people is a dream come true. I have been a alumni for over a year now but still talk to my old classmates as if we just left Ms. Burton's classroom, and when i visit the campus it always feels like home.  I know in my heart  I was not just a number for government funding but a real person.

Thank You,

DeLora, CMOA

Billing Accounts Manager

North Texas Neurosurgical Associates, PA

Medical Office Assistant Graduate February 2007 Richardson Campus

I would like to thank PCI for the excellent program. Within six months I have a new career and new job that doubled my income. During my studies we had lots of fun and learned so much including a very professional way to take care of patients in the labor and delivery section of the office
Thank you so much to all my teachers and PCI administration
Naouale
Graduate 2007 Richardson Campus

I am really glad that I came to PCI for my Patient Care Technician training.  I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the instructors because they are knowledgeable and went the extra mile to make sure I understood what was being taught.  Now I work for parkland hospital and have been there for 2 years and am currently enrolled at TWU nursing school.  I appreciate all the hard work and effort that PCI did that enabled me to become who I am today.

Antnella

Patent Care Technician Graduate 2006 Richardson Campus

The experience at PCI was a life changing one for me.  I never thought in a million years that I would be in the medical field and actually loving what I do.  I love taking care of my patients being the one that they can turn to.  Without PCI and Marva Walker in (Career Services) I would not be in the field I am in and I owe that to PCI.  I am glad I chose to go to PCI, the staff and the students are awesome I would not change my experience at PCI.

Thanks,

Nina

Karin

Medical Assistant Graduate

I started my career in the medical field May 2001 as a medical receptionist at the Pediatric Clinic of Mesquite. At the time I was comfortable with my position but as the months went by I realized I liked what the medical assistants did. I would ask for advice and they would tell me to go for it that it was a nice field to go into. Months passes by with personal problems and at my age I wasn’t very serious about going to school for medical assistant. As the years went by and job after job in the corporate America I realized that medical field was for me. After applying numerous times at hospitals Parkland, Presbyterian in the Dallas area never got a call back I was running out of options and getting impatient.
Children's Medical Center Dallas was my dream job. I also applied at Children's Medical Center Dallas numerous times but I never got a chance. Finally after the last attempt and a bad experience at my last job I finally made the decision to enroll in the medical assistant program at PCI Health Training Center. I learned Vital Signs, Injections, First Aid, CPR, ESR phlebotomy, Triage, Microanalysis, Urinalysis, EKG, Glucose Testing, and Capillary. Administrative skills from insurance forms, CPT, ICD-9-cm Coding, OSHA Regulations, Insurance Referral, Scheduling, charting, spreadsheets, filing, record keeping.
After I finished my extern I applied one last time at Children's Medical Center Dallas. Two weeks later I get a call from the HR dept at Children's Medical Center Dallas. It was the happiest day of my life!!!! Before that I do not think HR looked at my resume having five to six years experience in the medical field until they saw that I attended an accredited school for medical assistant. At that point we schedule an interview. I interview with two registered nurses, they informed me that they would call me back. Two weeks past by and they called me again. I interviewed with the manager for the Pulmonary Practice, she then told me well you already interviewed with the nurses and I gave them a list of 10 candidates and told them to pick the top three. I was very flattered to be in the top three. Last but not least my third interview was with the director. I had a feeling I got the job. Sure enough a week later I got the job offer. I was ecstatic, my dream of doing what I love to do with children and taking care of them. The process was long but in the end it was all worth it.
My point to this is follow your dreams, it is never to late, and be patient in the end its all worth it. I would like to thank PCI for accepting me as a student, there were many bumps in the road as I attended school from personal, to financial but I stayed positive and strong minded and didn’t let anything get in my way of becoming a medical assistant. Thank You Again to PCI for making my dream come true.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth
Medical Assistant
Children's Medical Center of Dallas
Pulmonary Clinic
 

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