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Become a medical assistant with our certificate program designed for you to become a Certified Medical Assistant.
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Our Medical Assisting Certificate stacks perfectly into our Associate Degree, which perfectly prepares you for a long and successful healthcare career.
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Mercy College of Health Sciences has been transforming students into healthcare professionals since 1899. Located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, we offer online and face-to-face or hybrid master's degrees, bachelor’s degrees, associate degrees, certificate programs, and continuing education courses. Mercy College is fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), in addition to numerous programmatic accreditors.
Mercy College is a Catholic, accredited, nonprofit institution of higher learning.
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