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My non-medical job now doesn't offer health insurance benefits (long story) so I am on my mom's insurance. I am in that awkward spot where I make a little too much to be eligible for Medicaid but can't afford to pay for a Marketplace plan with my other obligations.
I will have to go off my parents' health insurance about 6 months before application time due to age (January of my application year). I can't be a CNA because I can't lift more than about 10 lbs regularly and the phlebotomy-only (no CNA or MA) market in my area is saturated. I think I'd really like being an MA and most of those jobs are full-time and benefit-eligible. I would get my MA certificate at a local CC over the next two summers, graduate college in December, work as an MA for 6 months, apply in June and then continue to work as an MA to keep myself fed and insured throughout my app cycle.
So, my question is this: Will the admissions committee see this as taking someone else's seat who may have worked as an MA for much longer than 18 months and therefore frown upon it?
I'd like to note that this wouldn't be my only clinical experience, albeit will be my only paid clinical experience. I will have been a hospice volunteer for 7 years and a child life volunteer for 3 years, and an MA for six months at the point of application. I will try to also put that MA certificate to good use and volunteer at the free clinic in town that always needs more certified people, so there should be six months of that too.
Thanks in advance!
I will have to go off my parents' health insurance about 6 months before application time due to age (January of my application year). I can't be a CNA because I can't lift more than about 10 lbs regularly and the phlebotomy-only (no CNA or MA) market in my area is saturated. I think I'd really like being an MA and most of those jobs are full-time and benefit-eligible. I would get my MA certificate at a local CC over the next two summers, graduate college in December, work as an MA for 6 months, apply in June and then continue to work as an MA to keep myself fed and insured throughout my app cycle.
So, my question is this: Will the admissions committee see this as taking someone else's seat who may have worked as an MA for much longer than 18 months and therefore frown upon it?
I'd like to note that this wouldn't be my only clinical experience, albeit will be my only paid clinical experience. I will have been a hospice volunteer for 7 years and a child life volunteer for 3 years, and an MA for six months at the point of application. I will try to also put that MA certificate to good use and volunteer at the free clinic in town that always needs more certified people, so there should be six months of that too.
Thanks in advance!
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