Fall 2025 Applications Open Soon!

NIMAA Trains Medical Assistants for Primary Care

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Innovative

NIMAA combines flexible online learning with hands-on in-clinic experience throughout the program.

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Affordable

NIMAA is half the cost of most traditional MA programming.

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Transformative

Our goal is to train our students to the highest standard so they are prepared for a career in their community

How to Apply

Learn all about the admissions process here.

NIMAA offers opportunity to all interested and qualified applicants without regard to gender, race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Two NIMAA preceptors show a NIMAA student a bone structure on a skeleton in a clinic
A NIMAA student makes a note in a patient's chart
An MA checks the heartbeat of an elderly female patient in the clinic

Check out our Externship Partner locations

Some externship organizations have multiple clinic locations. The color coding on the map represents the number of locations for each organization. An organization with multiple clinic locations will be represented as the same color.

If you are interested in applying, please check the list of externship organizations hosting students for each cohort on this page to know which organizations are participating.