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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Insight into health-care opportunities where MA graduates might expect to obtain employment. Explanation of job descriptions within the system. Organizational charts of hospitals and clinics provided. Learn whys and hows of hispital/clinic building and certificates of need. A virtual clinic is built, with students staffing, supplying, and equipping it. Involves erudition of their discipline and working together to accomplish the assignment.
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1.00 Credits
HIV/AIDS review of etiology, epidemiology, transmission, infection control, testing, counseling, manifestations, treatment, and legal, ethical and psychosocial issues. Includes lab practice on standard precautions, HIV testing, and confidential interviews. Restricted to students enrolled in the medical assistant program.
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5.00 Credits
Pertinent identification and terminology for skeletal, muscular, circulatory, endocrine, lymphatic, and nervous systems. Includes diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions.
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5.00 Credits
Study of respiratory, digestive, reproductive, urinary, integumentary, and sensory systems, including diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions.
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5.00 Credits
Fundamentals of bookkeeping and accounting as applied to practical health-care situations. Introduction to sole proprietorship, partnership, financial structure; includes state and local taxes.
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3.00 Credits
General office administration, including telecommunications, scheduling, filing, interpersonal communications, and overview of business machines, medical equipment, supply procurement, and inventory.
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4.00 Credits
Emphasis on professional verbal and written communications as applied to the medical office. Legal and medical issues also addressed. Learn about patient care issues, including privacy, confidentiality, medical records, patients' rights, and advance directives.
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3.00 Credits
Medical billing practices, including ICD-9, ICD-10, and CPT coding, electronic submission, and computerized billing techniques. Federal, state, and area policies included. Direction on submission of insurance claims.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced instruction in medical billing practices. Includes ICD-9 and CPT coding, electronic submission, computerized billing techniques, and hospital billing; also federal, state, and area policies. Helps to minimize insurance rejection.
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3.00 Credits
Specific instruction in phlebotomy, asepsis, sterilization (chemical and autoclave), instruments, EKG transportation, emergency procedures, admitting/discharge of patients, and prioritizing patient needs.
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