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Lincoln Tech

Lincoln Tech

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Lincoln's mission is to provide superior education and training to our students for in-demand careers in a supportive, accessible learning environment, transforming students' lives and adding value to their communities.

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  • Lincoln Tech - Medical Assistants

    Lincoln Tech - Medical Assistants
    Aug 29 2023
    On this episode, you'll hear how Lincoln Tech is focusing on Medical Assistants. You'll hear from former students and administration about the importance of this program and the need for M.A. https://www.lincolntech.edu/ https://www.lincolntech.edu/careers/health-sciences/medical-assistant Our medical assistant graduates are coming back to us extremely happy with the wages that they're making. 00:00:10S2The first thing I would say, just do it. Don't second guess yourself. If there's something that you really want to do, just do it.00:00:17S3I had a job upon graduation, and I owe that all to Lincoln. I would just. 00:00:22S4Recommend for other health care employers that work with Lincoln Tech. I highly recommend that they learn a little bit more about the externship program. That's actually something I had a personal interest in it .00:00:34S5Welcome to the official podcast of Lincoln Tech. In this episode, we'll be looking at the medical assistant program. We'll find out what you can expect to learn and what kind of jobs are out there. You'll also hear from instructors, former students and employers who work directly with Lincoln Tech to help you succeed in a field that isn't going away. And Lincoln's promise to our students is simple We will work tirelessly to help you succeed on the road to new career opportunities. Now let's dive into some details about the program. Let's meet our. 00:01:02S6Guests. 00:01:03S1So I am Michelle Jones, and I'm a medical assistant instructor at Lincoln Tech in Morristown, New Jersey. I've been a certified medical assistant for 23 years, and I've been training medical assistance for 11 years.00:01:18S5As an instructor, can you fill us in on the medical assistant program and what it consists of and even some of the tasks that students are responsible for.00:01:26S1Medical assistance work in outpatient facilities. So those facilities are doctor's offices, are urgent care centers. We have students work in outpatient surgery centers, health departments. We even have graduates work at state and county correctional facilities. So our medical assistants are running the front office and the back office. So in addition to their clinical skills, our medical assistants are work in the front desk as well. They work scheduling appointments, confirmation calls. They're working in patients, electronic medical records. They're getting into the billing, insurance and coding part of health care and their clinical skills. They're on the back end doing direct one on one patient care. So they're doing the vital signs patients, blood pressure, pulse, respiration. They're taking the patient's temperature, height, weight measuring, maybe if they're in pediatrics, measuring the infant's head circumference in length .00:02:27S5That's quite a job description. It must take a good deal of training and practice to be able to manage all of that. 00:02:32S1So in addition to those things, the medical assistant is also running EKG on a patient's heart. They're drawing blood, doing phlebotomy. They're assisting in minor office surgeries and assisting with just the physical exam with the physician. So there's a lot of duties that a medical assistant is responsible for, from the front office to administration to the back clinical side of it. 00:02:58S5How long does a program typically take? 00:03:00S1So our medical assistant come to school for? It's about eight month program. They do six five week modules or six five week terms. The course is broken up that way. So they do six five week modules and then they go off to a five week clinical internship where they're doing hands on directly in a doctor's office. We have preceptors at the doctor's offices in our community that bring on our students and they finish their training hands on.00:03:31S5And as an added bonus, at the end of that process, they're also prepared to take a medical assisting certification exam. So now we know the training process from an instructor's viewpoint. We're also going to hear from an employer in just a few minutes. But first, let's meet some of our graduates. 00:03:45S2My name is Kathy Garcia. I am a graduate of Lincoln Tech and currently working as a supervisor at Reconstructive Orthopedics. 00:03:54S5Kathy, what made you decide to go to Lincoln Tech?00:03:56S2So to be completely honest, I loved ...
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  • Lincoln Tech - Post High School Education

    Lincoln Tech - Post High School Education
    Jun 7 2023
    On this episode, you'll hear how Lincoln Tech is focusing on why this is a good time of year for high school students, especially seniors, to start looking into career training schools post-graduation. And you'll hear from former students and administration about the importance of this program. www.lincolntech.edu https://www.bgpodcastnetwork.com/ High School Seniors Podcast Jay Rasmussen, Senior Vice President of Admissions at Lincoln Tech: There’s a lot of differences between the traditional education route and the career technical training route. They both serve their own purposes for the correct student, but, number one, we're going to be a shorter program. 00:00:17 Rob Paganini, President of Lincoln Tech’s Mahwah, New Jersey Campus: The first time we made them, the astronaut actually came to our school with the locker that we supplied the latch for. All of our students signed it, and then they shot it off into space. 00:00:30 Julian Cawthon, Computerized Manufacturing Professional and Lincoln Tech Graduate: A position where you're actually able to advance your career, having the training, having the ability to program the CNC machines, the ability to read blueprints you can advance in your career so much faster. 00:00:40 Host: Welcome to the official podcast of Lincoln Tech. Lincoln Tech's mission is to provide superior education and training to our students for in-demand careers in a supportive, accessible learning environment, transforming students’ lives and adding value to their communities. And Lincoln's promise to our students is simple: we will work tirelessly to help you succeed on the road to new career opportunities. On this episode, we'll discuss the post-High School training program and focus on why this is a good time of year for high school students, especially seniors, to start looking into career training schools post-graduation. 00:01:11 Rasmussen: My name is Jay Rasmussen. I'm the senior vice president of admissions with Lincoln Tech. 00:01:15 Host: Jay, can give us a rough percentage of high school students that come to Lincoln Tech straight from high school? 00:01:19 Rasmussen: That's a great question. So roughly about 20% of our students come directly from high school and about 50% of our students are under the age of 21. So a lot of these students will take different routes in order to get to the same place. Some of them take some time off. Others try out a traditional college and still others enter the workforce. Many of these students, though, depending on their path and their initial direction, they find out it’s not exactly what they expected it to be and to decide to look for some relevant hands on skills, which Lincoln Tech provides for specific career fields. And they end up coming to us. The majority of them will find us within that 3 to 4 year period after graduating high school. 00:02:00 Host: How does a Lincoln Tech experience compare to a typical college experience? 00:02:03 Rasmussen: There's a lot of differences between the traditional education route and the career technical training route. They both serve their own purposes for the correct student. But, number one, we're going to be a shorter program. Most of our programs can typically be completed within about a 12 month window. The programs are also a more direct route to the career field because you're in and out and you get to go to work. The last major difference that we have is that it is typically less debt for our students to complete our program. The student that takes a four year credential, for instance, will have four years of tuition that they have to pay back. In our instance, it's a one year tuition. Typically it's somewhere between 25-30% or so, 30% of what [an average 4-year college degree cost] may be. 00:02:55 Paganini: I'm Rob Paganini. I'm the campus president for Lincoln Technical Institute in Mahwah, New Jersey. 00:03:01 Host: Rob, can you tell us more about how the high school share program works? 00:03:04 Paganini: We've been seeing a pretty good decline in the skilled trades at the high school level, so we wanted to do something to afford high school students the availability to take automotive courses. We have a share program where high school juniors or high school seniors have the ability to come to our school for 2.5 hours a day, five days a week, and they will take three classes per year. And they are the same exact classes we teach to our adult learners. Now these students are segregated, so they are not mixed in with our adult learners. It is only our high school students with a specified instructor for them only. And again, once they have completed the courses they will matriculate into our adult program if they so choose, to continue their education here. 00:03:54 Host: I understand the high school students coming here are doing something extremely cool in the computerized manufacturing program – did I hear correctly, that ...
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  • Women In Trades

    Women In Trades
    Mar 28 2023
    On this episode, we'll get the insight from women in the skilled trade industry about how trades aren't just for men and how women are making solid careers out of the programs offered by Lincoln Tech. Lincoln's mission is to provide superior education and training to our students for in-demand careers in a supportive, accessible learning environment, transforming students' lives and adding value to their communities. Alison Neuman, Program Manager of Workforce Development at Johnson Controls, Inc. - Buildings Solutions North America: The skilled trades are for everyone. I agree that stereotypically we would say or in the past it's a male dominated career. But being a technician in the field is a phenomenal opportunity for both men and women. 00:00:18 Morgan Woodtke, Lincoln Tech Graduate and Diesel Technician: My advice to any woman who wants to get into this, don't be scared. 00:00:23 Jennifer Hash, President of Lincoln Tech’s Denver, CO campus: When I got into this industry, I would say probably about 3 to 5% of our students were female. I looked at it today at the Denver campus. 11% of our students are female. You know, there's creative things with collision. It's not just wrenching on cars. 00:00:39 Host: Welcome to the official podcast of Lincoln Tech. On this episode, we'll talk to the women who encourage other women that are currently working in the trade industry and how the trades aren't just for men anymore. Lincoln Tech’s mission is to provide superior education and training to our students for in demand careers in a supportive, accessible learning environment, transforming students’ lives and adding value to their communities. Now let's chat with the women who make the trades program great. 00:01:03 Hash: I'm the campus president at Lincoln Tech in Denver, Colorado. We are a skilled trades college and we train technicians in auto diesel, HVAC, collision, electrical and welding. 00:01:17 Host: I always thought that women weren't interested in the trade field, but I'm guessing that I'm wrong here. 00:01:22 Hash: Women got into the trades, I believe, during World War two, when soldiers had to go off to war. Women went into the factories to build airplanes and ships and everything. That's how Lincoln Tech was founded. When soldiers were coming back, we wanted to make sure that they were trained and had a skill that they can go into work and get back into society coming from the wartime. Over the years, we saw the decline in women being in skilled trades after that when the men came back. But recently it is still definitely a male dominated industry and our focus with the skilled trades gap is women were an untapped resource to be able to make sure those skilled trades continue to move on and that gap closes. We talk about it all the time and with the high school students, with the adult students that we need people not just going the traditional university route. We need students to be able to go into the skilled trades since there is such a need in those industries. 00:02:24 Host: What would you say to the women out there about the program? 00:02:26 Hash: I would just say skilled trades is an amazing opportunity for anybody, even though it's a male dominated field, that women can be very successful in it. It's all about getting that education. And Lincoln Tech does provide an amazing education for skilled trades and has that support system. We work with a lot of industry employers that want to grow their female population and their female staff, and we're here to help that. We're excited to help with it and it is a great industry to get into being both with the education being only about a year and then working with our career services department to obtain those employment opportunities. 00:03:08 Neuman: My name is Allison Newman. I'm the program manager for workforce development for Johnson Controls and I support workforce development strategies for all of North America. 00:03:18 Host: So Allison, what's so good about this program? 00:03:20 Neuman: I think exploring a career, being technician, being in the skilled trades is very, very attractive to women. When you compare costs of a technical degree versus a 4year degree, it's astronomically cheaper. You are able to enter the workforce faster. Yes, you may still incur some debt, right, to pay for it, but you are going to be earning dollars much faster than a student that's having to pay back student loans. And it's a field in which the yes, there is the hands-on piece, but more and more women, we are getting them into STEM, getting them attracted to robotics competitions and STEM based curriculum in the middle schools and high school so that the next path doesn't necessarily have to be an engineer in a four year school. How about I get an electronics certificate? How about I get an HVAC certificate, start getting that hands-on experience, start making some money? We have ...
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