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Medical assistant training
This curriculum provides training for medical assistant instructors to teach medical assistant students about best practices in immunization delivery.
Training purpose and goals
This training aims to teach nationally-recognized standards and recommendations that support best practices in immunization delivery. It also focuses on strengthening medical assistants’ knowledge and skills through competency-based, hands-on training.
Training curriculum: Starts here ↓
- Course material outlineopens in a new tab
- Suggested room set-upopens in a new tab
- Agendaopens in a new tab
- Tips and best practicesopens in a new tab
- Comfort measure take home sheetopens in a new tab
- Comfort restraint flyeropens in a new tab
- Medical assistant lecture powerpoint presentationopens in a new tab
- Pre-testopens in a new tab
- Post-testopens in a new tab
- Case scenariosopens in a new tab
- Immunization site map—adultsopens in a new tab
- Immunization site map—pediatricsopens in a new tab
- Skills station non-clinicalopens in a new tab
- Skills station vaccine preparation and administrationopens in a new tab
- Skills station storage and handlingopens in a new tab
- Skills checklist for pediatric immunizationsopens in a new tab
- Sample vaccination information statement (VIS)opens in a new tab
- Temperature log—Celsiusopens in a new tab
- Temperature log—Fahrenheitopens in a new tab
Preparing vaccines
- Anatomic sites poster (English)opens in a new tab
- Anatomic sites poster (Spanish)opens in a new tab
- Common vaccine abbreviationsopens in a new tab
- Dose, route, site, and needle sizeopens in a new tab
- Immunization schedules and recommendations—childhood opens in a new tab
- Immunization schedules and recommendations—adult opens in a new tab
- Immunization schedule using combination vaccinesopens in a new tab
- Injectable vaccines by routeopens in a new tab
- Preparing liquid vaccinesopens in a new tab
- Tetanus prophylaxisopens in a new tab
- Vial mix-up chart—Tdapopens in a new tab
- Preparing reconstituted vaccinesopens in a new tab
Vaccine administration
- Route easy read chartopens in a new tab
- Administering injectionsopens in a new tab
- Contraindications to vaccines chartopens in a new tab
- Immunization site map—pediatricopens in a new tab
- Immunization site map—adultopens in a new tab
- Vaccine acronyms and abbreviationsopens in a new tab
- Nasal flu vaccine (FluMist)opens in a new tab
- Oral vaccine administrationopens in a new tab
- Check your steps: make every injection safeopens in a new tab
Educating patients and parents
- Comfort measuresopens in a new tab
- Comforting restraintopens in a new tab
- Vaccine information statements (VIS)opens in a new tab
- Vaccine safety: talking with parentopens in a new tab
- Initial office management of anaphylaxisopens in a new tab
- Vaccine safety: parent informationc (English)opens in a new tab
- Vaccine safety: parent information (Spanish)opens in a new tab
- Top 10 parent concernsopens in a new tab
- Helping parents separate fact from fearopens in a new tab
- Vaccine safety: for medical assistants (English)opens in a new tab
- Vaccine safety: for medical assistants (Spanish)opens in a new tab
- Community immunity (English)opens in a new tab
- Community immunity (Spanish)opens in a new tab