Ultimate Medical Academy Reviews
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BXR/MCLA - You get what you put in to it!
School recommended by
Linda
on
November 18, 2009
Review not yet rated
Ok, I understand the frustration that you all (as did I) have or have had with this school. BUT, we only get out of it what we as the student put in to it. I was placed at my extern site and I got hired. The only real issue I have had with this school is them sending my final application out for me to take my State test. I was told after a month that they didn't send it out because they didn't have my transcript, (it was in my file the whole time). You have to stay on them and they will get it done. Again, you will only get out of it what you put in to it. I too am now $10,000 in debt towards financial aide but I will pay that back and hope to in half the time they allot me because I worked hard, ignored the high school antics of the other students that cheated and disrespected others. I was there for me and my children, not to socialize or become someones friend. The friends that I did make, I cherish them but I went for ME and NOT them.
Learn More about Ultimate Medical AcademyIF YOU HAVE $$$$$$$$$$$ TO BURN
School not recommended by
A DISAPOINTED STUDENT
on
October 27, 2009
5/9 people found this review helpful
IF YOU HAVE $$$$$$$$$ TO BURN, THEN GO HERE THIS SCHOOL SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN IT, THEY ARE NOT RESPECTED BY ANYBODY AFTER GOING TO THE TAMPA CAMPUS FOR A YEAR FOR THE BASIC X-RAY/MCLA COURSE IM $15,000 + $1200 IN SCHOOL TUITION COST, IN DEBT AND UNEMPLOYED.
NOT TO MENTION THAT I CANT EVEN GET A JOB WITH A TEMP AGENCY, THEY ARE A WASTE OF MONEY AND DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYONE THAT GOES TO THIS SCHOOL. THEY GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS TO ANT TEST THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE, STUDENTS COME IN WHEN THEY PLEASE, CHEAT ON TEST AND DONT EVEN GET THROWN OUT BECAUSE ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS $$$$.
YOUR EXTERNSHIP WILL CONSIST OF EITHER GOING TO A CHIROPRACTOR OR DOING SOMETHING ELSE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT YOU WENT TO SCHOOL FOR AND ONCE YOUR DONE THE CAREER PLACEMENT TELL YOU THAT YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO APPLY FOR A JOB AS A MA WHICH START OFF @$9-10 AN HR WHEN YOUR PROMISED $18-22 OH AND YOU CANT WORK AT A HOSPITAL WITH OVER 150 BEDS!!!!!! PLEASE TELL ME WHERE THERE IS A HOSPITAL WITH A 150 BEDS??????
DO YOUR HOMEWORK YOU CANT GET A BASIC X-RAY JOB ANYWHERE WITHOUT 6MONTHS TO A 1 YEAR EXPERIENCE NO ONE WILL HIRE YOU ONCE YOU FINISH THIS SCHOOL IT IS NOT RESPECTED. I WISH ALL THE STUDENTS THAT DIDNT GET WHAT THEY WERE PROMISED WOULD RALLY UP AND SHUT THEM DOWN..
OH AND THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE IT A GOOD REVIEW MUST BE LAZY INDIVIDUALS WHO DONT CARE ABOUT THERE FUTURE!!! WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE TO PAY YOUR LOAN MAYBE YOU'LL BE BACK TO B***H...
Crap
School not recommended by
MO
on
October 22, 2009
7/13 people found this review helpful
So you go to school to better yourself and you find yourself back in a High School setting. Students cheating and getting caught and NOTHING DONE. So guess what. You can cheat your way through school. Oh yeah there test reviews are the actual test and they give you the answers. Then when you go to an extersite (if your able to get one) is a complete hole in the wall. I found my own site and had a great time. They gave me a list of staffing agents tha don't even do medical staffing. When asked for some assistant in looking for a job I was told they have nothign coming in and look in the phone book for places? Trust me I'm not sitting on my butt waiting for them to give me a job, but damm a little help, maybe point me in the right direction. No!!!! Teacher wise, was fine. Oh yeah and the book and spiral book for positioning. TONS OF ERRORS..As per my instructors in ALL the classes I took. Everyone needs to be a registered Tech.
All in all this is a horible place to go. Go to a regular college. It's longer, but I bet you will be employeed before I get a job. Plus the kicker? The salesman at the front tell you 15-18 and hour for x-ray. For medical assistant job that pays $9-$10 per hour.
DO NOT GO HERE...And the ones that love it. Everyone else gets screwed. Save you hard earned money and go to HCC!!!!!!MBC
School not recommended by
Jamia
on
October 17, 2009
3/13 people found this review helpful
I am currently enrolled @Ultimate in the Medical Billing and Coding class. It has been disaster from day one. Not so much with the teachers but with the students. They are out of control, disrespectful and inappropriately placed at this facility. I blame the administration for continuing to allow the students in my class in particular to continue to be disruptive, disrespectful, create a hostile environment. This all comes from the top. I do not know anywhere these students can go and act this way and still be allowed to attend class. It is unbelievable! In that respect I feel that my money has been wasted. I have went to the administrator and she is of no help. Just a lot of lip service. Clearly for her it is all about the $$$$. The teachers can only do what they are allowed to do and it is sad when your boss does not support you especially in this environment. This speaks volumes to me. Ultimate could and probably will be some day a great place to go to school, but unforutnately not right now. I would not recommend anyone to go to this school, based on this experience alone.
UMA is GREAT
School recommended by
lashelle
on
October 16, 2009
15/18 people found this review helpful
SO many negative reviews! I don't get it, I am currently a student at UMA and I LOVE it. I don't know anyone who doesn't love it here, all of my classmates feel so lucky to be in a school like this. My cousin and her boyfriend both graduated recently and both have jobs in healthcare that are WAY better than what they were doing before UMA. If you are looking at this site for info on UMA DO NOT believe the negative comments - UMA is great and I would recommend it to anyone, as long as you know you have to put work in on your end too!!
Reviews on UMA
School recommended by
Carrie B.
on
October 14, 2009
13/16 people found this review helpful
I have been reading all of the whinning and crying in these reviews. I am currently enrolled in UMA and love it. The VA paperwork was done in the timing told to me by their F.A dept. And it was also explained to me that no money is released to the student until midway through the program, that the tuition had to be paid out prior to extern. Which makes sense, you get to go to school and do an extern if the school doesn't have a policy on collecting funds then the school would be out of business. Knowing most of you don't pay your bills and would skip out on them. The school like any other school is protecting itself. Grad services has been working with me very well. On top of that there are 30 new employees in that dept. My sister graduated from the same course and got a choice position at a facility she been dyeing to get into. If you people think that a school any school is going to just place you into a job with out any effort on your part, after being careful to match you up with a potential employer your crazy. Some people are suited for one thing and others for other duties, get off of your butts and help. Schools don't have to offer assistance with job placement that is a curtsey not a given.
School went above and beyond
School recommended by
Randy Coomer
on
October 08, 2009
23/25 people found this review helpful
I would like to take the time to let you know how pleased I am with the amazing staff but above all the amazing people one person stands out and that is Donna Gaberino in the Career Services Dept. Donna has gone above and beyond the call of duty and I would like everybody know how pleased I am to have her as my Career Services Rep. Donna is the most pleasant person to work with and she has been by my side during my most stressful times of looking for employment. No matter how discouraged I became she always picked me up and gave me the power to keep plugging away at finding the career that was right for me. Thanks to her hard work and dedication she made it possible for me to start my new career on the 19th of August. I want to thank her along with Ms Terry and Ms Ondrea for always being so dedicated and the most amazing teachers a person could ever have. Even the receptionist Lauren Palmer always went above and beyond her call of duty to make my time at Ultimate Medical Academy the greatest learning experience ever.
The quality of the education was amazing. They went above and beyond what most schools would teach you and I want to thank the staff and I will recommend this school to all that I come in contact with and it is all because of them!!!
DO YOUR HOMEWORK -SAVED BY THE BELL
School not recommended by
RD
on
October 01, 2009
9/20 people found this review helpful
The student reviews confirmed my my mounting suspicions as I investigated UMA. Initial RED flags. UMA's (Liz) method of a high pressure recruiting setting unattainable deadlines designed to get potential students to make hasty decisions.Unless you ask the right questions you are inundated with misleading, incomplete, ambiguous information resulting in wrong conclusions. Unless, one knows something of the SYSTEM students will not have enough knowledge to ask the right questions or comprehend the answers. They erroneously believe the school staff understand this and will, of course, truthfully guide them through the process. After all they are putting their future in their hands. Where's the advocate for the student? So sad. The next RED flag was the??financial officer??. The only useful assistance was applying for PELL which covers a small fraction of the program fee. The only other forthcoming assistance was a list of websites for grants and scholarships. A daunting task for anyone.One would expect that the person bearing the title and receiving a paycheck as financial officer their job description would at least include identifying, applying and securing grants and scholarships for students.Straight from the horse's mouth (the financial officer)Rhonda, it is the student's responsibility to identify and secure grants or scholarships.
The breakdown(analysis)of the cost(s) of the program was misleading showing only a small final balance due after the completion of the program. However, the math just didn't add up. Why? The financial officer had already substracted the biggest portion of the tuition (grants and scholarships) as if it had already been secured. When, in fact, it had not been secured. The only help from the financial officer was a list of websites that take you to thousands and thousands of sites. Oh, and while one is trying to secure the grants/scholarships the balance 6.8% interest is accruing for UMA.
The next RED flag.When I requested a list of facilities that have provided externships, or where students had been placed after completing UMA program(that is if the student's program qualifies them to be employed or to sit for a required State licensing exam to be employed). UMA's response was vague and useless (doubletalk). Not one physician's name, not one facility's name not even a satisfied student's name. And,not a breath how student's did on State exams. NOTHING. Another RED flag.The agreement/contract print was so small, illegible is a better word, that I bought a stronger pair of reading glasses to read it and then it was struggle. However, I did read every word, comma,dot,and typo. It was like deciphering a refund policy on the back of a receipt. This, too, is purposefully designed to discourage if not deceive the reader.UMA is supposedly in the business of teaching. Even lay people know that the point size and font of print will either encourage or in this case, discourage one from reading it. Of course, the information in this document contained vitally important information regarding the school's responsibilities or lack of responsibilities(not always clearly stated) policies and more importantly the student's academic, FINANCIAL and personal responsiblities (more clearly stated). The refund policy was a hoot to decipher. But UMA covered their bases.
I could go on. My FINAL CAUTIONS: -Don't be pressured by recruiters into making hasty decisions.There is plenty of time regardless what they might tell you TAKE YOUR TIME -READ, REREAD EVERYTHING CAREFULLY -LEARN WHAT YOU ARE GETTING INTO BEFORE YOU SIGN ANY PAPERWORK -ASK,ASK AND ASK AGAIN QUESTIONS -DEMAND CLEAR MEANINGFUL ANSWERS THERE ARE NEVER TOO MANY QUESTIONS NOR A STUPID QUESTION -UNDERSTAND FINANCIAL AID.KNOW YOUR OBLIGATIONS.GRANTS YOU DON'T HAVE TO REPAY. LOANS YOU WILL HAVE TO REPAY WITH INTEREST. -REMEMBER,YOU COULD BE OBLIGATING YOURSELF TO REPAY HEFTY LOANS EVEN IF YOU WEREN'T AWARE OF IT
GOOD LUCK
School of Hard Knocks on your wallet
School not recommended by
Robert Wilson
on
September 01, 2009
14/28 people found this review helpful
I'm a recent Bxr student at the Tampa campus I've been out of the classroom for three weeks now and I'm finding it most Aggravating on the Extern sites the send you to I'm on my third site ( in three weeks)they sent me to my first site That had three other students their with nothing to do at the site the student that was their the longest said he was shooting X-rays for awhile after that it stop and they were having him put office furniture together and taken old folders apart and he had been doing that for a month when I got their I shot one Xray the time I was their the rest of the time I was taken folders apart and just sitting around for eight hours a day I had enough of that I didn't get in Debt for $15,000 to be somebodies free labor that has nothing to do with I study for and is to cheap to hire people to do the job It's Smart on his behalf and benefits Him but not me think of all the money he's saving between all the sites and free labor It well over 100 grand a year and the school does nothing about it untill you become a thorn in their side The second site they sent me to was a Floroscope site Basic tech's can't be any where near that equipment They told the Doctor that all they want me to do their was front desk work file'n folders and paper work I was their a two days I met a lady their that was a student from the school a year ago for Bxr and she laugh out told me she could find any work doing X-ray the school didn't help out much when she was their the only thing they help her find was a Medical lab Ass. most of the Xray places don't want anything to do with the school for some reason I start a new site tomorrow at a Chiropractic Office Maybe they will have a X-ray machine that I can work on and do what I spent a Year of my Time And Money on learning Radiography doing what I wanted to learn and Not where they just feel like sending me to do Medical lab work.
I'm not the only one that is having problems with in my class their are about ten of us not counting the students of the past years gone by that just went with the flow and did their time doing something that they study for to get their hours for the state test not Baby I'm not short changing myself for them and what they want me to do That's why I Will Not Recommend this School to anybody You go their Thinking you are bettering yourself for a new career all that Time and money at the End the Wind just changed direction with broken Promises on their behalf Especially Now in the Hard times we are ALL going thru you might have just taken that money for school piled it on the floor goto winndixie get a bag of marshmellows and roasted them over it at least you'd feel good about it seeing where your money went and feel comforted by the warmeth it put off and the mellows in your tummy I hope I help someone thinking about going their think twice about. those who still in school May Jesus Bless You All in your times of Prosperity and your Times of Need He has for Me Thank you
"A really bad choice"
School not recommended by
Mark Soler
on
August 27, 2009
12/25 people found this review helpful
I am a graduate of 08 of Oct.. UMA is the biggest piece of crap school I have ever been to.. They don't help you find a job, the healthcare facilities don't even respect their training.. I owe the bank over 7500 for a school that is worth nothing.. I really hope you dodge this school, cause now i can't find a healthcare job!!! these people in the field want someone with over 1 year exp or a graduate from a regionally acredited college... if you have any questions about this garbage school email me anytime msoler29@yahoo.com
best thing i ever did
School recommended by
SANDY BERKEBILE
on
August 23, 2009
22/28 people found this review helpful
I took the MCLA program the teachers were great ,the program tought me more than enough to get a good CAREER... GRADUATE SERVICES DID THER JOB FOUND A GOOD EXTERN SITE AND HELPED ME THRU THE WHOLE PROCESS ,EVEN SENT OUT MY RESUME TO SEVERAL SITES RECIEVED ALOT OF GOOD HELP .. THEY WERE GREAT . IT WAS WELL WORTH MY TIME AND $$$$$$$$
biggest mistake of my life...
School recommended by
dB
on
August 05, 2009
36/51 people found this review helpful
I attended the X-Ray program at UMA's Clearwater campus. The instructors were great and the overall classroom experience was enjoyable but the schools ability to help with job placement is deplorable. It's been over a year since my graduation and the situation has not improved. I worked very hard while in school and graduated at the top of my class. I have no problems applying myself and not having a job is not a result of not trying.
The school continues to make promises they can't keep and the turn over rate of their "career specialists" is so high I've never talked to the same person twice. I'm finding employers do not want to hire the graduates from UMA and announcing that I went to school here has brought a concerned smile to more than one interviewers face. If you are thinking about going to school at Ultimate Medical Academy take the $10,000 you would spend on tuition put it in a hole and burn it. At least you won't have wasted a year of your life.
LIES LIES AND MORE LIES!!!
School not recommended by
KC
on
July 23, 2009
31/44 people found this review helpful
I gratuated the MCLA course a few months ago, kept up with my payments and was told at the beginning that I would receive my diploma if all payments were up to date. They refuse to give my my graduation papers until fully paid. Let me remind everyone that the school already received thousands of dollars through financial aid and the payments I already gave them. As far as helping get a job, they are worthless! My grades were excellent and my resume is flawless, there is absolutely no excuse! This school makes promises and they tell you exactly what you want to hear but they do not deliver! I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND this school to anyone, big disappointment.
Treated as unimportant even though we pay their salaries
School not recommended by
Smith
on
June 17, 2009
36/50 people found this review helpful
I am in the PCT program and have been attending UMA - Tampa for a few months now. Our first instructor was very knowledgeable but there were issues in class that continued on through out the months. We ended up getting a new instructor. Her first week with us was full of misinformation and degradation of the students. She could not spell and could not get through the instruction part of the week so we wasted 1 full week not learning anything and was still expected to take the test on the last day of the week. When we all complained we were all treated like we were not important. At the end of the week the school finally decided to give us a qualified instructor, but the staff still continued treating us as though we were wrong to complain about not getting the training that we paid for. You are continuously lied to by the staff and once your a student you are treated like a second class citizen. I do not recommend this school due to its unprofessional unqualified staff.
UMA X-RAY program
School not recommended by
Matthew
on
April 21, 2009
55/71 people found this review helpful
I attended the UMA in Clearwater FL. I went under the VA chapter 31 Voc Rehab. Here is what happened.
In order to get my VA living allowance all the school had to do was fill out a simple form 2-3 minutes was all it should have taken. Instead it was a 3 month ordeal to get them to do it. I had to spend several hours a week out of the classroom chasing down people who had no idea what they were doing in order to get my check. I took the school from June until the end of September. The tuition and fees were 100% paid for by the VA in installments. I had to take out student loans for living expenses. Get this even though the VA was paying for everything the school held back my loans for living expenses until I had almost finished the school. Then I got my money. They let me starve and lose an apartment due to them locking up my funds and not dispersing my money until the VA paid the full tuition. This school does not treat Vets very well and I question the staff lying to the students about money. This school should not be VA approved nor should they recieve federal funding.
I was placed in an externship for the x-ray program in a doctors office who did not even have an x-ray machine. Would you want someone trained and working on your children with no experiance? After notifying the school about my displeasure. It only took the school 2 weeks to get back to me. I set up my own externship out of state with a service that has a x-ray machine. My replacment was another x-ray student to a doctor who does not take x-rays.
This school is a scam do not go if you value an education in the health care field. Thanks UMA for wasting a year of my life
School is a fraud!
School not recommended by
Stacy
on
April 13, 2009
55/70 people found this review helpful
I attended UMA in hopes of finding a career in the health care field. Not only did the class cost me 7,000 for 6 months, that I have to pay back but I still have not been able to find a job. It has been over a year!!! I went when they first opened their Tampa campus I was one of the first three to four classes...They were very unorganized and their career development is a joke! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS SCHOOL!
X-ray Tech
School not recommended by
Amber Smith
on
March 01, 2009
73/93 people found this review helpful
I went to the UMA campus in Tampa, Fl. If you are looking for a career in x-ray DO NOT got to UMA! They have done nothing but LIE to me and my classmates since the first day. It has been the WORST experience of my life and I would not suggest this school to anyone.
