Start Your Clinical Journey: Gap Year Medical Assistant Program
The ultimate hands-on clinical experience for future healthcare professionals!
Are you taking a gap year before medical, PA, or nursing school? Ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into real-world clinical experience? Join Epiphany Dermatology as a paid Medical Assistant and gain the skills, confidence, and connections that will give your application—and your career—a major head start.
…this experience has given me familiarity and confidence in the fundamentals of medical care—benefits I have already seen pay off in medical school.
Apply to the Gap Year MA Program
Why This Opportunity Stands Out
- Get Hands-On Clinical Training
Learn from an esteemed team of board-certified dermatologists to gain hands-on, practical experience with procedures, patient preparation, clinical workflows, and scribing techniques that will set you apart. - Earn a Powerful Recommendation
Stand out by earning a glowing letter of recommendation from your provider—giving your application an unbeatable advantage. - Enjoy Competitive Compensation and Comprehensive Benefits
We offer a competitive compensation package and standout benefits (many at no cost!), including free skin care, generous time off, paid holidays, and incredible growth opportunities. - Come Back and Make an Impact:
Have the opportunity to return after your program and continue driving access to care with a passionate team. - Get Rewarded for Referrals
Know someone who’d love this too? Refer your classmates and earn cash bonuses when they join. The more you refer, the more you earn!
Who We’re Looking For:
- Motivated, curious, and ready to learn
- Passionate about a future career in healthcare (MD, PA, NP, nursing, etc.)
- Team player able to jump in where needed and help create a positive, patient-centric work culture
- No experience? No problem! We’ll train you from the ground up
Kate Lester is a medical school student and past Gap Year Program participant.
Q&A with Kate Lester
When I started at Epiphany, I already knew I wanted to pursue medical school to become a doctor. But, I left with an assurance and confidence in this career path that far surpassed what I had when I began. I grew in my ability to interact with patients, learning to treat them with the respect, kindness, and compassion they deserve. Most importantly, I confirmed that I am passionate about medicine and love coming into the clinic each day to treat patients and work as part of a team.
During a medical school interview, I had the opportunity to discuss my patient care experience at Epiphany in depth. Students who enter professional school immediately following graduation typically do not have many hands-on patient care hours, due to the time constraints. My interviewers were pleasantly surprised to hear about the hours I had accumulated while working at Epiphany. Most importantly, this experience has given me familiarity and confidence in the fundamentals of medical care—benefits I have already seen pay off in medical school.
Yes! Throughout my time at Epiphany, I worked with roughly a dozen different doctors and physician assistants, and I truly believe that experience was invaluable to my learning process. Each new provider brought a different perspective on patient care and treatment—and they all loved to teach. In addition to garnering varied perspectives, I was also mentored by the physician I primarily worked with, for which I will be forever grateful.
I can honestly say that I would recommend this gap year medical assistant position—and Epiphany as a company—to everyone. For me, the hardest part was adjusting to the different providers’ preferences, but I grew immensely in flexibility, adaptability, and attention to detail. At the end of the day, I loved it!
My advice would be to apply! And if you are hesitant because you lack prior dermatology experience, let me help ease those fears: Epiphany provides excellent training, and all the providers approach the learning process with grace, tact, and kindness. Finally, I cannot overemphasize the advantages I have experienced thus far in medical school because of my experience as a medical assistant at Epiphany Dermatology.