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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Spring Semester) This course is designed to prepare the medical office assistant for a variety of legal situations that arise in the medical office setting. This course will stress the importance of medical office personnel having knowledge of the law, personal pro-tection, patient protection, physician protection, the duties of the physician, responsibility and standard of care. The course will also examine the difference between civil and criminal law, contracts, malpractice, and the economic impacts. This course will also offer a comprehensive vocabulary of legal terms. Case law will be examined in groups.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Students are prepared to calculate drug dosages and learn legal aspects of pharmacology, specific terminology, specific drug regulations, classifications and therapeutic implications. Various groups of drugs are studied in detail. This course is cross-referenced with CHEM 150.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Intermittently) Prerequisites: BIOL 133, CMPA 141T, OT 113 or instructor's consent. This course provides practice in machine transcription for the medical field. Students transcribe dictation emphasizing reports in the following medical areas: history and physical, x-ray, surgical, pathology, and discharge summary. This course is cross-referenced with OT 204.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Intermittently) Prerequisites: BIOL 133, MED/OT 204. This course is a continuation of Medical Transcription I. The course includes transcription and terminology in specific specialty areas including but not limited to OB/GYN, surgery, orthopedics, etc. This course is cross-referenced with OT 208.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits (Fall Semester) Prerequisites: sophomore standing in the Medical Administrative Assistant or Medical Assistant program or instructor's consent. Sophomore level course designed for students pursuing medical field careers. A comprehensive course in office procedures, telephone skills, medical law, employment law, medical office billing, ICD and CPT coding, appointment scheduling, and medical record bookkeeping. This course is cross-referenced with OT 211.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Intermittently) This course will provide students with the skills to voice input data into the computer and be able to edit content as necessary. Students will be using voice software and training the software to their own voice. Students will also be able to drag and drop others' voice input data for editing into a finalized medical document.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) Prerequisite: BIOL 133. This course will cover the introduction and basic coding information for CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM coding sets. The focus of this class is learning guidelines and assigning CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM codes to a wide range of abbreviated coding scenarios covering different body systems and medical specialties. Complete source documents will be used periodically. AHIMA's Standards of Ethical Coding will be reviewed. Basic billing and reimbursement issues will be discussed. (Coding will be taught for the physician reimbursement, not the facility, so ICD-9-CM procedure codes will not be covered. These are covered in the Intermediate Coding classes.)
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2.00 Credits
2 credits (Spring Semester) Prerequisite: MED 221. Course designed to provide hands-on training to the student seeking employment in the medical office. It will cover the fundamentals of ICD-9, SPT and HCPCS coding and would be appropriate for the beginner or intermediate level office staff as well. This course is cross-referenced with OT 222.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit (Spring Semester) This course gives the medical assistant student an oppor-tunity to become proficient at performing the clinical skills required in Clinical Practicum I and II.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit (Fall Semester) This course gives the medical assistant student an oppor-tunity to become proficient at performing the clinical skills required in Clinical Practicum I and II.
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