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Where are our MModal peeps? - How did your first day go?

Posted: Apr 01, 2014

We want to hear all about it!

hard. - East MT

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the course work and learning is not hard. the 95% on the final next week is what i'm freaking out about. you have to take 2 quizzes every day and make a 95%, taking it as many times as you want. I had the book and all the resources right there and still had to look at the wrong answers and change them to get my 95%. I hope we get some serious study guides for the final or I don't think many people will be going on to the rest of the course.

Like I said it's not the course work. it's the 95% pass mark. I am hoping today I won't feel so defeated now that I know kind of what to expect.

Wow. - Good luck to you

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What are you learning? I'm a student, and I think coding is hard to learn. Complicated. Lots of rules.

How are you learning? - Is it all online?

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Do you have a contact person you can ask questions, and are you understanding why you miss a question? I have to ask why until I understand why my code is wrong and the correct code is the correct one.

like she said below its not even the coding part yet - East MT

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you read a chapter and you can be quizzed on anything in the entire chapter. we are doing pretty much a chapter a day and that's why the final will be so over whelming. 9 chapters and who knows what will be on the final. I'm not complaining by any means i'm just bracing myself for the worst.

WOO HOO!! i made 100% first try on chapter 2!!! - East MT

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feeling better already :)

What is the point though in taking the quiz over and - over until you reach the score needed?

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Is that really productive? No criticizing, just curious.

I dont know about you but I learn from - my mistakes

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just me

Some people learn by trial and error. Maybe that's the - point in getting to take it more than once.

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I went to a new PCP this morning and I could swear - he probably took the quiz over and over too. Oh b

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How bizzare, in what world do you get to take - a test over and over again til you get it right?

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They are just daily practice quizzes and textbook questions. - Not the case w/the biweekly exams.

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I can see the value of them as a) to fix some of the material into your head (like the endless acronyms) and also b) to force you to keep up with the reading, because they are due every day.

The exams are not handled the same way.

In college when I had math lab and computer lab - we got to retake till we passed SM

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It's not an uncommon thing. And it's not like they can retake the final till they pass.

yes, you go back - Coder too

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over what you did and trace your steps. You see where you went wrong and redo. Getting them ready for coding cases.

Like it said on the tin, "intense"! - I mean, a LOT of work.

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I can't believe how much textbook reading and powerpoint material we are expected to get through in 4 hours. It is not hard material to learn per se. Yesterday we studied the hx of healthcare and the US healthcare environment... at a VERY high rate of speed. Like I said not hard, but expected to remember kind of, IMHO, silly details - like which Persian physician wrote what book back in the 900s AD - lol!

I think that it is all extremely interesting material but prefer to digest it more slowly and take it all in. But I suppose there isn't time for all that - for we gotta get to the meat of the coding material ASAP!! :p

The history of healthcare? RU serious? - Whats the point of that? nm

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I'm not at all surprised - anon

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I think trying to learn a year's worth of material in 3 months and then expecting you to put it into practice in a 3-month internship is madness. I signed on to one of the best coding schools on the web and EACH module (there are 4 of them) is 3 months long.

It reminds me of some of the "crash courses" that you can take during the 6-week summer semester at college - you learn the same material, but you learn an abbreviated version of everything AND you're expected to learn the entire course in 6 weeks. Yeah, you learn it, but how well?

where on earth do you go where it is a year? - here it is an 8 week course

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I have friends that have gone through the program here and passed their exams. still couldn't find jobs because they don't have experience.

Andrews School - anon

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It's designed as a year-long program but you're able to take longer if you need it or you can finish early but each of the 4 modules of information, assignments and testing is geared to take 3 months. I wouldn't *dream* of speeding through it, muchless doing it in a quarter of the time.

oh sorry my bad today we have two chapters and 4 quizzes - East MT

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*sigh*

Hey East MT do not sigh! - Another trainee.

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They are not the WHOLE chapters today just large-ish sections!

Aaaaaand... when it all seems too intense, just remember, we are getting PAID to learn this stuff - wooo! Not only 1) do we not have to pay tuition 2) we are being paid 20 hours a week for our learning time, and later... 3) completion bonuses, 4) incentive pay, 5) extra credential pay, 6) potential production/quality bonuses.

I was telling my dad all this, and he could not freaking believe it. He thought I won the lottery. And with that, let the negative commentary ensue.

I agree I do feel like I won the lottery. you are right todays chapters - East MT

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aren't as bad. Just that first one with alllll of the 3 trillion associations and committees and organizations was tough!! I'm actually enjoying chapter 2, learning about the different coding organizations and credentials was fun :)

When something sounds too good to be true, - Mac

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it usually is. Not trying to be negative here, I just don't understand how the the coding side of MM thinks they are so wonderful and the MT side thinks they stink? Are we talking about the same company?

well im sure the janitors and the administration - at the local hospital have different viewpoints

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on how the hospital treats them. Just sayin'.

So coders are "admin" and MTs are "janitors"? - Hmmm

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nm

That's the attitude on this board, when we're all on the same sinking ship. - Pride goeth before the fall. nm

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Wow, now that was truly a rude and disrespectful comparison to MTs and coders - sm

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Not to mention laughable. You think coders are equivalent to administrative personnel and MTs equivalent to janitors? Ha. Go ask a hospital administrator what he thinks the difference between the two is. As soon as they can automate coding, which is already in the works, and/or ship it overseas, they can't wait to cut that annoying little expense. I'm pretty sickened by the attitude here when we're all medical records employees struggling to keep a job while the big dogs try to eliminate our entire industry.

Do not be sad, like the Risk Manager picture - On the Power Point slides.

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I agree, though - for me, Risk Manager would be a horrible job.

how can he be sad when he is sitting on that mountain of cash? - East MT

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LOL

The problem is not having no experience - Another view

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It is that they only took an 8-week course.

not true. Thats what is offered here. - just how it is

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That does not mean it is enough. - It is just all you know about.

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You aren't limited to what they teach there. The fact that it is all that is available locally is irrelevant--it is still not enough.

Of course it is enough! - It is coding, not brain surgery

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exactly. all you have to do is take a test to pass - not sure why you would spend a year

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on learning it. jeez

yeah but do you go to Andrews FOUR HOURS A DAY - 20 hours a week? thats a long time

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i'm in school full time and my one on campus class meets 3 hours a week. four hours a day is a long time to sit in class and should be plenty of time.

The Andrews School is a web-based program - anon

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... So I can "attend" as many hours a day as I need to - I'm not confined to sitting in a class to learn the material and this works best for me. The instructors are readily available by phone or email anytime I need extra help and you never move on until you're totally comfortable with the material. I did tons of research on schools before I enrolled and *by far* Andrews had the best student reviews for getting their students ready for certification. Some have even said their prospective employers thought they knew the material so well they couldn't believe they were new graduates.

In terms of getting paid while you're training, that's true of me too, only I'm being paid for a 40-hour week, not 20. I'm still working my regular MME job with MModal ... not at my PTO rate, but at my regular production rate which is much higher.

Andrews is AT MINIMUM - 15 hours a week

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And while you can go at the pace you need, 15 is at the low end of what you should be putting in. And I support East's right to sigh -- even a good opportunity comes with difficulties. I never heard her say she wasn't happy for the opportunity; just that it was difficult.

Andrews is 15 hr/week for about a year - or 780 hours

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Because it is a full coding course with A&P, pathophysiology, etc.

M*M's is 20 hr/week x 12 weeks, or 240, plus an internship of 40 x 12 weeks, or 480. That is pretty close at 720, when you consider that passing an A&P test was a prerequisite.

Andrews is AT MINIMUM 15 hours a week - You really cannot compare the two

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Like you said, Andrews is a full coding course.

4 hours a day? - Are you kidding me

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This is taking me way more than 4 hours a day. Is it just me or anyone else?

Yesterday was definitely more than 4 hours of material! - Today was a bit better though.

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There will be definitely unpaid study hours in my future.

I am not sure we are strictly supposed to "study off the clock" but I don't see why not, unless we truly are guinea pigs whose fixed variable condition must = 20 hours of study per week.

yesterday kicked my butt. - East MT

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today was a lot better. I feel more comfortable with what i know. all of those abbreviations were overwhelming.

Oh yeah and there WERE indeed 2 chapters today. - My bad, EMT.

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Not sure why a range of page numbers was given in our assignment when those were actually the whole chapters - haha. Maybe to calm us down after yesterday? :D

LOL! maybe so! Looking forward to the case study tomorrow - East MT

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can't wait to see what that is all about.

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