Our online Dental Assistant Training combines coursework and hands-on experience to help you prepare to take the next steps toward a new career with confidence. You’ll learn essential knowledge and clinical skills that are aligned to industry certification exams, like the NELDA component exams and can also help you prepare to sit for the AMT Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) certification. Then you’ll participate in a 100-hour externship to practice what you learned in real-world situations!
Northeastern Illinois University is a public university in Chicago, Illinois, with workforce-oriented offerings through Community and Professional Education. Training fields associated with this school include cybersecurity, data science certification, medical assisting, phlebotomy, pharmacy technician, and user experience and user interface design, among others. The university’s professional education activities include workforce development, certifications, customized training, continuing education units, and professional development units. Other offerings connected with the unit include test preparation, tutoring, and community music and dance classes. Its broader academic structure includes undergraduate, graduate, and certificate-level study, while the workforce development focus adds career-oriented education alongside traditional university programs.