Carol Buck Book

[Carolyn Heath]

There is a book or product by Carol Buck called Online Internship for Medical Coding that comes out every year. This year is the 2013 Edition. It comes with a User Guide and Access Code. Has anyone ever use this? If so, what your thoughts about it?

 

[Alicia Scott]

I used it at the college. It is hard. That is not a bad thing. Excellent practice. I am not sure how beneficial it would be for everyone. There are several specialty sections so say you want to work for a cardiologist you can do that section, print out your score as well as cases you have coded and show the employer your experience in that field. It also is set up like a virtual office which is excellent. If you wondered what it was like to code in a doctors office and the programs they would use to put in your codes etc. this would help. Keep in mind these are NOT all easy cases. Some of them kicked my butt. The rationale is extremely good.

 

[Michele]

I used it at the college. It is hard. That is not a bad thing. Excellent practice. I am not sure how beneficial it would be for everyone. There are several specialty sections so say you want to work for a cardiologist you can do that section, print out your score as well as cases you have coded and show the employer your experience in that field. It also is set up like a virtual office which is excellent. If you wondered what it was like to code in a doctors office and the programs they would use to put in your codes etc. this would help. Keep in mind these are NOT all easy cases. Some of them kicked my butt. The rationale is extremely good.

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