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Male MTC Student Flies Solo in
Medical Assisting Program
As the only male student in Moultrie Technical College’s Moultrie campus medical assisting program, Covie Williams spends his college days surrounded by women and plans to enter this predominately female workforce within the next year.

MOULTRIE , GA. Being surrounded by women might be the thing dreams are made of for most men. For Covie Williams, the only male student in Moultrie Technical College’s medical assisting program in Moultrie, it’s reality.

Williams, 26, doesn’t mind it at all. After growing up with five sisters, he admits, “I’m used to it…[the female students] don’t treat me as an outsider. Especially when they need some heavy lifting done, I really feel needed.”

A 1997 graduate of Colquitt County High School, Williams says he always wanted to be in the medical field, and medical assisting and nursing were at the top of his list.

Not wanting to waste any time, he chose medical assisting because it would get him into a job a little faster, despite the field’s predominately female workforce

Prior to enrolling in the medical assisting program at Dekalb Technical College in Atlanta in 2003, Williams attended Fort Valley State University and then was stationed in Korea while serving in the U.S. Army.

He has spent his last two years back home in Moultrie taking classes at MTC. He says, “I love the program. The instructors make it easy to learn.”

“It’s really fascinating to know how the body works. I just like acquiring knowledge and passing it on to others. It’s something new every day.”

Williams continues, “I like the family atmosphere. Everybody wants to see each other succeed.”

A family atmosphere is especially important to this husband and father of three children ages 10, 6 and 4. Williams acknowledges that childcare was an issue in the early days of his enrollment in the program.

“The instructors always made sure I got here and have worked with me to help me finish,” he says.

Williams has set a personal goal to graduate this year but must first complete an externship at an area medical facility. He says he hopes to do his externship with Dr. Seth Berl of Moultrie who was his mentor on the Packer basketball team during high school.

Although medical assisting students gain experience in all areas of the medical field, including front and back office skills, Williams admits to having a fondness for assisting with surgery.

After graduation he hopes to continue pursuing his nursing degree online and through night classes, but he plans to sit for the medical assisting certification exam first.

Medical assisting instructor Robin Kern adds that the programs on both the Moultrie and Tifton campuses are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs, a college credential that allows MTC students to sit for the certification exam.

Kern states that a certified medical assistant has an increased chance of getting a job over an uncertified candidate.

Anyone interested in a career in medical assisting can contact Kern at Moultrie Tech’s Industrial Drive campus in Moultrie at 217-4195 or can log onto the college website at www.moultrietech.edu for more information.

New student registration and orientation for fall quarter is September 6. Classes begin September 29.

 

Media Release- August 26, 2005

Contact: Jana Wiggins, Moultrie Technical College, Director of Marketing
(229) 217-4139 or (229) 891-7000
Robin Kern, Medical Assisting instructor
(229) 217-4195
Email: jwiggins@moultrietech.edu or rkern@moultrietech.edu