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2.00 Credits
This course includes transcription of advanced medical dictation with special emphasis on surgical, radiology, and pathology reports with authentic and accented industry quality dictation. This is an advanced level course for those learners who have completed Medical Transcription II (MEDS1640). Prerequisite: MEDS1640.
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3.00 Credits
This course broadens learners' organizational, technical, personal, and leadership skills critical to success as office managers in today's medical environment. Learners work with a medical office manager through a mentorship program, personal contact, and applied projects. Emphasis in this course is on developing the learners' problem solving and decision making skills as they relate to medical office management. Prerequisite or Corequisite: MEDS2605 and CSBT1501.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces the principles of medical law and ethics and prepares the learner to handle financial transactions of a medical office. Daily bookkeeping procedures, billing and collection techniques, and insurance claim submission are explored in both traditional and electronic venues.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the medical office worker to systems and procedures required to assemble and maintain accurate patient documentation in traditional and electronic medical records. The entire medical records cycle from creation to archiving/purging is explored along with modern filing techniques. A detailed study of numeric filing systems, indices, record control and record retention, equipment, and storage methods are included. Advanced topics address data collection and data quality. Registries, electronic records, and information technology are also studied. Record processing and database software applications are used.
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3.00 Credits
This course includes transcription of advanced medical dictation with special emphasis on surgical, radiology, and pathology reports with authentic and accented industry quality dictation. This is an advanced level course for those learners who have completed Medical Transcription II. Students are expected to transcribe additional medical tapes with varying degrees of difficulty. This course is required for the Medical Transcriptionist/Editor program. Prerequisite: MEDS1640.
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3.00 Credits
Internship is a supervised student occupational experience (SOE) at an approved employment training station. Forty-eight hours of SOE are required for each internship credit. The working situation is consistent with the student's career goals and program objectives. The internship provides students the opportunity to experience fulltime (30 hours per week or greater), paid, business and industry entry level, training related student occupational work experience, while simultaneously having the advantage of being supervised by a program instructor/coordinator. Any modifications to this internship policy must be endorsed by the program advisor and approved by Academic Affairs. Prerequisite: Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00 and advisor approval.
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2.00 Credits
This is an introductory course to the medical laboratory profession. Emphasis of this course includes safety, universal precautions, infection control, first aid, and OSHA requirements. A discussion of the role of the medical laboratory technician and other healthcare personnel is presented. Other topics include chemical and water quality, laboratory glassware, basic laboratory equipment, quality assurance, quality control, ordering laboratory supplies, laboratory information systems, and laboratory math. Learners maintain quality control records in the laboratory. This course is a corequisite or prerequisite to all other MELT courses.
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2.00 Credits
This course instructs the learner in the proper methods of both capillary and venous blood collection. Equipment, legal issues, and specimen transport are also taught and practiced. Low complexity laboratory testing is performed. Corequisite: MELT1602.
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3.00 Credits
This is a basic hematology course which studies the cells of the blood. Time is spent understanding the function of each cell and techniques used to enumerate blood cells. Making and staining blood smears are practiced, along with evaluation and differentiation of the blood cells microscopically. Diseases and conditions that would result in abnormalities in the laboratory test performed are also discussed. Co-requisites: MELT1602 and MELT1606.
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2.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce the learner to the importance of urinalysis in the medical laboratory. It begins with a study of the anatomy and physiology of the kidney, followed by the routine analysis of urine, including the physical, chemical, and microscopic examination. Lab practice is emphasized. This is the first of two courses in biological fluids and is a prerequisite for MELT2608. It is designed to introduce the learner to analysis of body fluids other than blood. Co-requisite: MELT1602.
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