Medical Assistant (Texas — unlicensed; optional national certification)
No separate Texas MA license identified; physician delegation framework under Occupations Code Chapter 157. Optional national certification.
- Time
- Employment-only: weeks (estimate). National cert: weeks–months depending on eligibility path (estimate).
- Cost
- Often employer-driven; national cert exam fees vary (estimate; needs_verify).
Marker: Estimate
Requirements3
- No Texas state MA license identified; physicians may delegate medical acts to a qualified and properly trained person under Occupations Code Chapter 157 (verify current statute text)
Sources:Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157
- Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157Texas Occupations Code Chapter 157 — physicians may delegate medical acts to a “qualified and properly trained person” under physician supervision (general authority). The words “medical assistant” are not a separate Texas state license category under this chapter; MA practice is delegation/employer-driven. **Verify current text** on Texas Legislature statutes site.
Citation id
SRC-TX-OCC-157
- Employer-specific training, competency, CPR, and background checks commonly required (employer policy — not a statewide MA license)
Sources:Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157
- Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157Texas Occupations Code Chapter 157 — physicians may delegate medical acts to a “qualified and properly trained person” under physician supervision (general authority). The words “medical assistant” are not a separate Texas state license category under this chapter; MA practice is delegation/employer-driven. **Verify current text** on Texas Legislature statutes site.
Citation id
SRC-TX-OCC-157
- Optional national CMA/RMA-type certification may improve hireability — verify eligibility with certifying organization
Sources:DoD / Army COOL
- DoD / Army COOLArmy COOL lists civilian credentials aligned to MOS and funds Credentialing Assistance via ArmyIgnitED; official COOL portal.
Citation id
SRC-ARMY-COOL
Gaps3
Typical + answer-adjusted
- Optional national certification exam eligibility documentation
- Employer onboarding requirements
- Possible short MA certificate program if employer/cert body requires formal hours
Ordered next steps3
- Decide whether you need a national MA cert for target employers.
- Verify military experience eligibility with that certifying organization.
- Apply to clinics/employers emphasizing documented 68W skills; obtain any missing CPR/background items they require.
May satisfy from 68W / typical certs
Language is intentionally cautious — may satisfy, never guaranteed.
- 68W clinical skills may overlap MA clinical duties and may support national cert eligibility or employer competency — verify with cert body/employer
Caveat: No automatic Texas credential
Sources:Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157 · DoD / Army COOL
- Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157Texas Occupations Code Chapter 157 — physicians may delegate medical acts to a “qualified and properly trained person” under physician supervision (general authority). The words “medical assistant” are not a separate Texas state license category under this chapter; MA practice is delegation/employer-driven. **Verify current text** on Texas Legislature statutes site.
Citation id
SRC-TX-OCC-157 - DoD / Army COOLArmy COOL lists civilian credentials aligned to MOS and funds Credentialing Assistance via ArmyIgnitED; official COOL portal.
Citation id
SRC-ARMY-COOL
Pay and official data notes
Imported or attempted official data. Each note shows its review status.
Pay range
Needs expert reviewNot available yet. The official BLS wage pages could not be read when they were checked on 2026-09-27, so no pay figure is shown.
Research details
Pay range was not imported. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics pages returned HTTP 403 on 2026-09-27, including https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes292043.htm. No wage, series id, or reference period was copied.
- https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes292043.htm (opens in the browser) · 403 Forbidden. Retrieved 2026-09-27.
- https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes292042.htm (opens in the browser) · 403 Access Denied. Retrieved 2026-09-27.
- https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm (opens in the browser) · 403 Access Denied. Retrieved 2026-09-27.
- https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/oe/oe.series (opens in the browser) · 403 Access Denied. Retrieved 2026-09-27.
Needs expert review. Sign-off not recorded.
Related programs
No pathway-linked education programs for this credential yet. Browse the full Education resources list for your MOS and state.
Official links
Verify on the licensing authority's own pages before paying a fee.
Source citations
Show 2 source citations
- Texas Legislature — Occupations Code Ch. 157Texas Occupations Code Chapter 157 — physicians may delegate medical acts to a “qualified and properly trained person” under physician supervision (general authority). The words “medical assistant” are not a separate Texas state license category under this chapter; MA practice is delegation/employer-driven. **Verify current text** on Texas Legislature statutes site.
Citation id
SRC-TX-OCC-157 - DoD / Army COOLArmy COOL lists civilian credentials aligned to MOS and funds Credentialing Assistance via ArmyIgnitED; official COOL portal.
Citation id
SRC-ARMY-COOL
Badge meanings
Related civilian job titles (not licenses)
O*NET occupation matches · 68W
All 68-series crosswalkOccupation classification only. Not a license, not military equivalency. Retrieved 2026-09-26.
This page includes filtered information from O*NET military crosswalk files by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (opens in the browser) (O*NET license page (opens in the browser)). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Military Credential Bridge filtered these files to Army 68-series rows and did not add occupation codes by hand. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Military Occupational Classification rows are from the Defense Manpower Data Center crosswalk distributed with the O*NET files. A linkage is an occupation classification, not a civilian license.
- Paramedics29-2043.00Needs reviewDMDC via O*NET
Copied from the active enlisted 68W row in DMDC file milx0724 (O*NET crosswalk updated August 2024): the only O*NET-SOC code on that row is 29-2043.00 Paramedics. That code is not NREMT Paramedic and is not a Florida or Texas paramedic certificate. The same DMDC row does not list a separate Emergency Medical Technician occupation. Florida and Texas EMT/paramedic rules in this app stay on the curated primary-source pathways. Needs human/SME review before this row is used to describe credential eligibility.
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- Home Health Aides31-1121.00Needs reviewCOOL supplemental
Supplemental linkage from the O*NET COOL crosswalk file (DOD COOL sites, file updated August 2024). Not a state licensing rule. The live Army COOL credential matrix was not imported because that site is dynamic. Florida curated research excludes home health aide as a state-licensed credential pathway.
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Not imported · needs review
29-2042.00 Emergency Medical Technicians. 29-2042.00 does not appear on the Army 68W row in military_crosswalk/milx0724.csv. The 2015 enhanced-analysis workbook lists retired code 29-2041.00 Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics instead. This gap is recorded for review and is not imported as a 68W match.
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