Choice's Medical Administrative Technology program is a two-year program specifically focused on the Certified Medical Administrative Assistant ((AMA) profession, considered by many to be an effective entrance into the health-care field.
DPT is given in the form of an inoculation (shot or injection) in three separate doses about two months apart, with a booster shot one year after the primary series of inoculations is completed.
Instead, the ACIP considered a new strategy: Vaccinate pregnant women. Protective anti-pertussis antibodies cross the placenta to the fetus, protecting newborns until they can make antibodies of their own. The optimal time to get the Tdap vaccine during pregnancy is between 27 and 36 weeks gestation.