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3.00 Credits
3 credits Manipulation of the public through the use of mass media is an ever growing part of politics. An informed electorate must be aware of this manipulation and how it is being used to play to their aspirations and fears. Through a review of current and past political advertising, stories, interviews, and press conferences students will be able to analyze what the underlying reasons are for what is being said. Prerequisites: ENG100, RDG100, or placement. Fall and spring.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This Broadcasting and Electronic Media and Computer Graphic Design department dual designation course will build upon the skills that BCT students acquired in Studio Production, Electronic Field Production, Linear Computer Based Multi-Source Editing-both analog and digital-and Non-linear Editing, and CGD students acquired in Computer Graphic Design I and II, Designing For Print, Digital Imaging, Desktop Publishing, Two-dimensional Design and Drawing. Working in teams combining students from the two departments, class members will learn multimedia and CD-ROM production. The course is open to students who are BCT and CGD majors only. BCT prerequisites: BCT227 and permission of the instructor. BCT co-requisite: BCT229. CGD prerequisites: CGD104 and permission of the instructor. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This is the first semester of a comprehensive two-semester course sequence (MAS101 and MAS203 Medical Secretarial Procedures I and II) designed to provide the student with the skill, knowledge, and attitude necessary to manage a medical office. These tasks include interacting with patients, using the telephone, scheduling appointments, processing information, managing medical records, word processing medical correspondence, completing accounting transactions, understanding insurance, billing patients, and understanding medical ethics and confidentiality. In MAS101 the student learns the "manual" method of completing the tasks listed above, and in MAS203 the student learns the "computerized" method of completing the tasks listed above. Prerequisites: RDG100 or placement, BSS153 or placement (or co-requisite). Fal
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course provides students with a clear understanding of medical vocabulary. A workbook-text format is used to develop word-building activities that guide the student through exercises that teach and reinforce medical terminology. Numerous and varied activities challenge the student to understand and remember the significant concepts of medical word building. Audiocassettes provide reinforcement of pronunciation, definition of medical words, and spelling practice. Prerequisite: RDG100 or placement. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This is a beginning medical transcription course designed to provide students with a working knowledge of the transcription of medical reports. Medical reports will be transcribed from ten individual case studies, each of which concerns a specific system of the body. The case studies have been taken from hospital medical records. The medical reports included are history and physical examinations, radiology reports, operative reports, pathology reports, requests for consultation, discharge summaries, and death summaries. Prerequisites: BSS153 or placement , MAS102. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to introduce the students interested in working in health care providers' offices to the major nationwide medical insurance programs, to give students a basic knowledge of the national diagnostic and procedural coding systems using the ICD-9 CM and the CPT coding books, and to assist students in understanding the importance of processing and filing claim forms correctly, efficiently, and in a timely manner. Prerequisites: BSS153or placement and MAS102. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This is the second semester of a comprehensive two-semester course sequence (MAS101 and MAS203) designed to provide the student with the skill, knowledge, and attitude necessary to manage a medical office. These tasks include interacting with patients, using the telephone, scheduling appointments, processing information, managing medical records, word processing medical correspondence, completing accounting transactions, understanding insurance, billing patients, and understanding medical ethics and confidentiality. In MAS203 the student learns the "computerized" methods of completing the tasks listed above by completing simulations. Prerequisite: MAS101. Spring.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit In this course, students will apply knowledge, perform administrative procedures, and develop professional attitudes for interacting with other professionals and health care consumers in the actual medical office and/or clinic. This will involve a two-week, 80-hour unpaid experience at an MWCC approved clinical site. Prerequisite: Completion of first two semesters of Medical Assisting degree program. May-June.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Students are introduced to clinical laboratory aspects of medical assisting and learn to perform the following: use quality control principles during patient specimen collection and instrument and reagent preparation; prepare and maintain quality control records; perform routine urinalysis; perform and record results for basic hematologic, chemistry, serologic, and microbiologic tests; collect and label biological specimens including blood, urine, stool, sputum, throat, and vaginal; process, prepare, store, deliver and dispose of specimens along with collection equipment; use universal precautions and laboratory safety protocols. Three hours lecture and two hours lab per week. Prerequisites: BIO115 and MAS102. Must be taken concurrently with MAS307. Fall.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Students will learn to perform clinical duties such as apply aseptic technique with infection control, perform selected tests that aid with diagnosis and treatment, prepare and administer medications, take vital signs, recognize emergencies, prepare/maintain treatment areas, interview and take patient history, prepare patient for procedures, run electrocardiograms and record results, assist with exams and treatments, screen and follow-up test results, and maintain records. Three hours lecture and two hours lab per week. Prerequisites: BIO115 and MAS102. Fall. Must be taken concurrently with MAS306.
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