FORCE FOR HEALTH · CAREER PATHWAY
The Medical Assistant Pathway
The provider's right hand: clinical skills + the administrative front office → NHA CCMA.
⚠ DRAFT — clinical content pending physician sign-off
🔗How this page works: like the other FFH tracks, it's a guide, not a container. Each card opens a standalone module or an existing Force for Health course — nothing is forked or locked here. The Medical Assistant blends the clinical skills you're already building with an administrative / front-office layer, aimed at the NHA CCMA.
The ladder
CCMA = clinical foundation + administrative front office
🩺 CNA clinical base
Coach Katie's Clinical Club
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🗂️ Administrative & Front Office
Scheduling · EHR · coding & insurance · communication
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🎖️ Medical Assistant (CCMA)
NHA Certified Clinical Medical Assistant — the provider's right hand, equally fluent in the exam room and the front office.
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🚀 Keep climbing → LPN → RN
MA experience is a strong on-ramp to practical- and registered-nurse programs.
Why MA? You already have half of it. The clinical foundation — vitals, ADLs, infection control, phlebotomy, EKG, and the device sims — is the same bedside skill set. The Medical Assistant adds the administrative front office (scheduling, EHR, coding, communication) so one person can run both the clinical and the business side of an outpatient visit.
1 · Clinical foundation (you already have this half)
Reuse what's already live in the Clinical Club and the PCT technical modules — each card opens a standalone module.
🩺CNA clinical skills & vitalsCoach Katie's Clinical Club — scenario units across vitals, ADLs, safety, and infection control.Clinical Club
🌡️Vital signsTake, recheck, and act on temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure.Clinical Club
🩸Phlebotomy (blood draws)Venipuncture technique, order of draw, specimen handling, and bloodborne-pathogen safety.Phlebotomy
🫀EKG / telemetryAcquire a clean tracing, place leads correctly, and recognize the escalate-now rhythms.PCT module
🩺Blood pressure simPractice manual cuff technique and Korotkoff sounds on a realistic simulator.Device sim
🫁Pulse oximetry simRead SpO₂, spot poor waveforms, and know when a reading is unreliable.Device sim
2 · Administrative & front office (the MA layer)
Net-new front-office spokes — the layer that turns a clinical learner into a Medical Assistant candidate.
3 · NHA CCMA exam alignment
How the pathway maps to the NHA CCMA blueprint
The CCMA spans clinical and administrative domains. Here's which Force for Health module carries each one.
| CCMA domain | Covered by |
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| Foundational Knowledge & Basic Science | Clinical Club360 Human Explorer |
| Anatomy & Physiology | Clinical Club units360 anatomy |
| Clinical Patient Care | CNA skillsPhlebotomyEKGDevice sims |
| Patient Care Coordination & Education | Clinical ClubMA Clinical Day |
| Administrative Assisting | MA SchedulingMA Coding/InsuranceMA EHR |
| Communication & Customer Service | MA Front-Office Communication |
| Medical Law & Ethics | MA EHR (HIPAA)Scope callouts across modules |
Note: Weights vary by blueprint; verify against the current NHA CCMA outline.
The live FFH course
Force for Health · theforceforhealth.com
Medical Assistant Pre-Apprentice (FFH course)
The published pre-apprentice course this pathway feeds into — opens on the live Force for Health site.
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🎖️ Track your progress: earn and view your pathway credentials on the
FFH Pathway Badges page.
