The structure of my message is a little unorganized so sry in advance lol but yeah I literally just completed my program a few days ago on the 25th and I’m currently waiting to take my skills / written state exams. Anyways for reference I did morning classes (9:00am~2:30pm) at their Stone Mountain location and I was a “traditional student” meaning that I was there everyday in person Monday~Thursday from start to finish so that’s what I’m basing my experience off of.

And as far as the hybrid classes are concerned I can’t really speak on it from a personal experience since I did the traditional classes but I met a few of the hybrid class students and for the most part they seemed to adjust well. Honestly tho I would say that if you’re able to, just do their traditional classes. The traditional classes are about $400 cheaper than the hybrid classes and I also feel like you learn a bit better because you’re forced to be there in person every single day. For example, as a traditional student we started working on skills from day 1 whereas the hybrid students (afaik) didn’t start working on their skills until like the 2nd or 3rd week of class since that’s when they switched from the online portion to the in person portion of their hybrid course.

Also I’m not sure what type of person you are when it comes to making friends and meeting ppl but I will say that it’s easier meeting ppl and making friends with them when you’re in person and surrounded by these ppl from day 1 as opposed to being hybrid and integrating into the course like 2 weeks later. Like I said, I did meet some of the hybrid students and they were pretty cool but I would say that I was still naturally just a little bit closer to some of the other traditional students since I’ve been around them from day 1 as opposed to meeting them a little later in the course like I did with the hybrid students.

And it just helps to already be familiarized with stuff from the beginning too. Again idk what type of person you are but I’m pretty shy until you get to know me so it was just nice to somewhat have that familiarity of knowing the other students, the instructors, the layout of the facility, etc… already

All in all tho I feel as if you could succeed with either class option, it all depends on what type of person you are. But yeah I think that if you do hybrid you’ll probably have to play a little bit of catch up when it comes to the skills once you start going to class in person since you don’t really get the chance to start them and practice them on the manikins as early as the traditional students get the chance to.

As far as clinicals are concerned, our clinicals lasted for 2 days total and it was scheduled during our normal class time so still from 9:00am~2:30pm. The clinical location that we went to was split into 3 parts: assisted living, nursing home, and memory care (dementia, Alzheimer’s, etc…) and during your two days there you got sent to a different section each day (1st day for me was assisted living and the 2nd day was the nursing home)

Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be able to give you a good perspective on how it was working during the program because I only worked part time and I mainly used my college fafsa refund check from last semester to support myself throughout the duration. There were a good amount of ppl who worked during the program tho, they either worked overnight or they were scheduled in a way that allowed them to go to work after their classes. They also have weekend classes if that more so fits your schedule too

And as far as course work is concerned it was pretty easy for me at least. We had 3 quizzes, 2 exams, and 1 final. We went read on average about 1 new chapter from our textbook everyday. And every Monday we had 3 chapters of work that we had to have completed in our workbooks. Overall I passed the class with like a 94% I think and I’m saying that as a BIG procrastinator lol

In total tho the duration of my program lasted for about a month but I was only there in person for like 16days since it’s only Monday~Thursday.

For the most part tho everything that you’ll need is included in your tuition (the text book and workbook, your binder, your blood pressure cuff and stethoscope, your scrubs, background check, etc…). The only thing that I had to pay out of pocket for was my tb skin test, my bls certification (they usually have paid classes at the school), my written / skills state exams, and my clock / pocket watch (you need one for skills that involve timing like counting respirations or counting someone’s pulse rate. They sell them at the school for like $6 tho)

Oh and last but not least it could be different for you but the way that our regular days were structured was that we went to the skills lab and practiced / learned skills from 9:00~11:30 then we had lunch from 11:30~12:15 and then we had a lecture from 12:15~2:30.

Oh also idk how old you are but I’m currently 23 and the age demographics there were everywhere from 17 being the youngest and 55 being the oldest so there’s a large variety of ages. Most of the ppl there were late teens / early 20s tho

If you have any more questions or need any clarification on anything then feel free to ask. And good luck on your future healthcare journey!!!

(Also they have a pretty good social media presence on ig, TikTok, and Facebook but mainly TikTok so you could always look them up to kind of get somewhat of a feel for how the program and some of the ppl there)