A Bowling Green school to train medical and dental assistants is enrolling students.

The Medical Institute of Kentucky recently had a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 944 Fields Drive, Suite 103, behind OverTime Sports Bar and Grill. Classes have been underway at TMIKY since August, though the building opened in July. The first class will graduate next month.

TMIKY is an accelerated program, taking between 16 and 20 weeks, TMIKY Director Rick Raque said. The students learn a lot in those 16 to 20 weeks, but its all essential and hands-on learning.

No math (classes), no English (classes). Its just focused on skills training in the medical assisting and dental assisting programs, Raque said.

TMIKY also has schools inLouisville, Lexington, Florence, London, Somerset and Mount Sterling, according to its Facebook page.

Students who graduate from TMIKYs programs are nationally certified, allowing them to serve as medical or dental assistants in any state. The National Healthcareer Association, the National Commission for Certifying Agencies and the Better Business Bureau approve TMIKYs programs. TMIKY is a resident license school with the Kentucky Commission of Proprietary Education.

Raque estimated about 95 percent of the students are women, some of them with young children. The program is better suited to those students, Raque said, because its fast-track.

Jenny Rivas of Bowling Green is attending TMIKYs medical assistant program and has an 11-month old and a 2-year-old. Her weekly schedule is packed. On Mondays and Wednesdays, she goes to her externship at a Russellville orthopedic office from 8 a.m. to noon, then squeezes in a couple hours with her daughters before going to her full-time job at Bendix until late in the evening. She goes to class at TMIKY from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Its fast and thats what I needed because I have two girls and I dont have time to go to a program for nine months or two years, Rivas said.

Rivas said the material she learns is the perfect amount for her.

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Medical, dental program enrolling students