Medical Assistants Recognition Week

Every year Medical Assistants Recognition Week (MARWeek) is celebrated during the third full week in October.

Medical Assistants Recognition Week: October 16–20, 2023

Medical Assistants Recognition Day: October 18, 2023

MARWeek materials are available for order free of charge during mid to late summer each year via the AAMA Store. Keep an eye on the online store—and if you're an AAMA member, your email inboxes—to learn when the materials have become available.

The 2023 MARWeek theme has yet to be announced. If interested, 2022 materials are still available for download.

2022 Downloadable Materials

MARWeek Logos MARWeek Poster

Observance Suggestions Feature Article

Sample Press Release Sample Proclamation

Sample Social Media Messaging

Use the AAMA's 2022 MARWeek Social Media and Daily Theme Tool Kit to develop your own social media posts for MARWeek across various platforms.

You can download a Word document version of the 2022 MARWeek Social Media and Daily Theme Tool Kit too!

Add AAMA-created content or photos from your MARWeek celebrations and tag the AAMA (Facebook: @aamaorg; Twitter: @AAMAOfficial; Instagram: @aamaofficial; LinkedIn: American Association of Medical Assistants).

Use these downloadable AAMA-created images to dress up your social media accounts and attach to your posts and messages:

Facebook
- Post image
Instagram
- Post image
- Story image
LinkedIn
- Post image
Twitter
- Tweet image

Sample hashtags:

#MARWeek

#MARDay

#MARWeek2022

#MARDay2022

#CMA #AAMA

#CertifiedMedicalAssistant

#Recognition

#EmployeeAppreciation

#theAAMA

#MedicalAssisting

#MedicalAssistants

Sample Social Media Messaging Organized by Creator
Social Media Content Creator	Messaging
Employers and educational organizations who are thanking their medical assisting employees or students	Happy #MARWeek! Thank you, medical assistants, for all that you do! Your compassion, dedication & resiliency know no bounds! Our gratitude for your contributions this year cannot be expressed enough. We are so proud of our medical assistants, who are thoughtful, dedicated & versatile. This MARWeek & always, we have a lot to thank our spellbinding medical assistants for! What would you say are a medical assistants’ magic powers? Medical assistants have stellar hearts and enchanting skills, which is why we’re celebrating MARWeek! Join us in honoring medical assistants who show us every day that we believe in magic! We love our medical assistants! Thank you for your compassion, professionalism, and hard work every day! #MARWeek @aamaofficial
Medical assisting groups and individuals who are promoting the profession, such as state societies and local chapters	Every year Medical Assistants Recognition Week (#MARWeek) is celebrated during the 3rd full week in October. Celebrate the medical assistants in your life with these ideas from @AAMAOfficial: http://ow.ly/LYLY30m7dij Medical assistants are heroes in health care. Show medical assistants some love this #MARWeek! Order this @AAMAOffical poster: https://www.aama-ntl.org/store/product?ID=1992 It’s highly likely that you have encountered a medical assistant during an office visit. The more you learn about what medical assistants do, the more you will want to join us in celebrating them this MARWeek! Learn more about why medical assistants are magical additions to health care: http://ow.ly/JJdo50uDnlH
Anyone	#MedicalAssistants help administrative & clinical procedures run smoothly. They make life easier not only for providers but also for patients. Read how: http://ow.ly/Y0Ho30kHcEL #MARWeek “Medical assistants make the world go round in my opinion.” —Holly Bioloa, MD, family practice physician, North Carolina Celebrate MARweek by learning more about what makes medical assistants valuable members of any team: http://ow.ly/Y0Ho30kHcEL Happy MARWeek to all the hard-working medical assistants out there. Visit the AAMA website to learn more about the amazing & diverse work performed by medical assistants—you’ll find there’s a lot to celebrate! #MARWeek #theAAMA #MedicalAssisting Medical assistants are partners in health care. #MARWeek @AAMAOfficial

Check back with this page as more MARWeek materials become available.

*Use of the MARWeek logo and “Medical Assistants at the Heart of Health Care” slogan is restricted to materials created in recognition of Medical Assistants Recognition Week. Neither the logo nor slogan may be used to promote any other goods, services, or institutions.