The Medinail Learning Center (MLC) was founded by nail industry and foot care specialists, Janet McCormick, MS, and Robert Spalding, DPM, two professionals committed to the advancement and empowerment of their professions. (For more about their backgrounds, see Faculty.)
MLC’s goals are to develop mastery of knowledge and skills, to promote safe delivery of effective services, and to establish collaborative partnering with the medical and other communities.
Medinail Learning Center provides courses for three groups of foot care professionals: Nail Technicians, Podiatry Assistants and Medical Assistants.
Nail Technicians! The nail technician courses on medinails.com are designed especially for the licensed nail professional who is seeking to attain a higher level of success by transitioning into exciting new levels of care.
These courses enhance the knowledge and skills of nail technicians in addition to adding potentials for expansion of their success and career possibilities. Incorporating this information into their business brings nail technicians to a new and higher level of expertise and success in their profession, a level never before achieved.
Two courses are available for Nail Technicians:
- The Advanced Nail Technician Program is for salon-based NTs who wish to upgrade their information and to be known for having a higher level of expertise. This information will support the addition of new clientele in numbers never before experienced by nail technicians if the suggestions are implemented.
- The Medical Nail Technician Program is for NTs who wish to work in a medical setting. This course provides the information to bring a nail technician to the level needed to work with high success in this professional venue. The Advanced Nail Technician Program is a pre-requisite and is included in the tuition for this Program. Following the completion of the courses, passing the exams and attending the Internship, the MNT is also eligible for the PMA Certification.
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Podiatric Assistants! Few structured courses are available for Podiatry Assistants and many podiatrists and assistants have requested a Certification course that provides a solid basis of practical information for working assistants.
● The Clinical Podiatry Medical Assistant Program contains background information needed for optimally and safely working at the chair; this program does not contain office practices information. It reduces the initial training time of chair side assistants and greatly enhances their work skills. Topics included in this ten (10) module course include Dermatology of the Feet, Biomechanics of the Feet, Routine Foot Care and other targeted topics. Upon graduation, the CPMA has displayable proof, through certification, that he or she has studied and passed an advanced program containing information needed to effectively and safely work in a Podiatry office!
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Medical Assistants! The Clinical Podiatry Medical Assistant Program is available to Medical Assistants who wish to expand their current information to include foot care knowledge. Medical Assistants tell us that their prior training “stops at the ankles” and that this program provides the information they need to successfully work in podiatry offices and clinics.
For information on these courses, email Janet McCormick at janet@medinails.com or call 863-273-9134, or Robert Spalding, DPM at rts9999999@aol.com or call 423-667-4992 .