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Students learn how to establish credibility in the workplace as well as the principles of interpersonal communication. This course will give students the skills they need for team communication, difficult conversations, managing meetings, and creating effective business messages.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of health care delivery systems. They will analyze the organization of health care delivery in hospitals, mental health and ambulatory care centers, home health agencies, and nursing homes. Students will have hands-on experience with the UBO4. Emphasis is placed on hospital inpatient billing.

The externship will provide students with coding practices in a hospital, physician’s office, clinic or other health care setting with directed projects common to a clinical coding specialist on the job. Students will practice with clinical code assignments and billing methodologies, including projects and cases that replicate typical coding tasks in a physician’s office, hospital outpatient clinic, ambulatory surgery, and hospital acute care settings that employ coding professionals. This practicum will focus on building speed and accuracy using actual medical records. If the student does not obtain an externship, completion of a capstone project is required.