How is the Career Step program set up? What kind of material is covered?
The Career Step Medical Transcription and Medical Coding and Billing training programs are broken into 2 distinct sections–the foundational material (text-book style learning) and the practical, experience-building material (called the practicum). The first third of the program covers the foundational material. This section approaches subjects such as anatomy, medical terminology, and pharmacology, among others, in a traditional text-book style. You’ll read through lessons, take tests and quizzes, practice new terms with flash cards, etc. in order to gain the foundational knowledge you’ll need in the practical section of the course. In the practical, real-world training section of the course, you’ll put to work all the knowledge you gained in the first part of the program. You’ll spend about two thirds of the course in this section because this is what is really going to prepare you to get a job upon graduation. In this section, you’ll be learning and practicing the skills required in
