Train At Home for an In-Demand Health Care Career!

The College of Extended Learning has partnered with Career Step to provide two totally online professional certificate programs, offering practical training developed in collaboration with industry associations, employers, and experts to help you gain the knowledge and skills you need to excel in the workplace after graduation.

• Freedom and flexibility in training – study at your pace on your schedule while strengthening the time management skills valued by employers.

• Expert-created, real-world curriculum – prepare for the national industry certification exams respected and often required by employers.

• Personal, on-going support – access counselors and resources dedicated to helping you through the training process; you’ll have help from enrollment through employment.

Medical Coding and Billing Online Certificate Program
This program helps students prepare for careers in outpatient medical coding and billing. Students focus on medical terminology, coding standards, and specific outpatient code sets and spend a large portion of the course gaining hands-on experience designed to help them easily transition to the workplace after graduation. The program’s unique online platform provides access to all program material and interactive learning tools whenever is most convenient for the student, allowing them to study on their own schedules and at their own pace. Though certification is not required for employment, the program also prepares students for the appropriate national certification exams. Read more about the Medical Coding and Billing Online Certificate Program.

Medical Transcription Online Certificate Program
This course teaches students to understand and spell medical terms with a word building approach. Instead of requiring students to memorize the spelling, meaning, and pronunciation of thousands of complex words, this course focuses on helping them learn the spelling, meaning, and pronunciation of the various word parts that make up medical terms. Students will learn the root words, prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms that make up medical terminology. By learning these individual pieces, students will have the tools they need to understand the basic meaning of any medical word, even those they are unfamiliar with. Read more about the Medical Transcription Online Certificate Program.

Come to One of Our Health Care Career Open Houses

Our Open House informational session will include a discussion of the growing healthcare industry, and specifically the fields of medical transcription and medical coding and billing. The U.S. Department of Labor projects significant growth for both the medical transcription and medical coding and billing industries, and there are many attractive career opportunities for well-trained professionals. We will also include a discussion of the Medical Transcription and Medical Coding and Billing training programs offered through the College of Extended Learning. Come to the Open House and get answers to questions about career opportunities, industry growth, and the training programs.

To RSVP to a Health Care Career Open House or for more information, please contact
Steve McAdams at mcadams@csusb.edu or (760) 341-2883, ext. 14428; or
Jerdy Sterling at jsterlin@csusb.edu or (760) 341-2883, ext. 78121; or call (909) 537-5981.

For complete course description or to register online for the program,
see our current online course catalog.