NCCTI Recognizes Students During Medical Assistants Recognition Week

Students in the NCCTI Medical Assistant Clinical and Patient Care Technician programs with staff members after the pinning ceremony.

New Community Career & Technical Institute (NCCTI) celebrated Medical Assistants Recognition Week on Oct. 22 with a pinning ceremony for students in the school’s Medical Assistant Clinical (MAC) and Patient Care Technician (PCT) programs.

NCCTI Success Coach Odette Phillip welcomed the students to the pinning ceremony, NCCTI Success Coach Andrea Kelly gave a background about recognizing medical assistants and Career Services Coordinator Chanda Webb read a poem expressing the importance of medical professionals in patients’ lives. Each student received a pin of a stethoscope that NCCTI staff members placed on their uniforms. NCCTI Interim Director Miguel Pacheco addressed the students, explaining the importance of the field they are pursuing and the impact it has on patients and their family members.

: NCCTI Registrar Ramona Galley pins a Patient Care Technician student.

: NCCTI staff members speak during the pinning ceremony.

: NCCTI Interim Director Miguel Pacheco speaks with the students.

: NCCTI Success Coach Odette Phillip pins a Patient Care Technician student.

: NCCTI Success Coach Odette Phillip pins a Medical Assistant Clinical student.

: NCCTI Career Services Coordinator Chanda Webb welcomes students to the Medical Assistants Recognition Week event.

: NCCTI Success Coach Odette Phillip speaks during the event.

: NCCTI Success Coach Andrea Kelly provides an overview of how medical assistants began getting recognized.