Course Description - Health Occupations Education

Health Careers
Students in the Health Careers Program learn necessary knowledge and skills for employment in physicians offices, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, convalescent hospitals, and related medical facilities.  (360 hour program)

Offered at: Burroughs High School......760.375.4476 ext. 233

Medical Office and Hospital Procedures (Front Office)

(Prerequisite - Typing I)
This program is designed to develop attitudes, skills and knowledge as it relates to health unit clerks.  The course provides students with experiences they will encounter as clerical employees in the medical field.  Students are placed in Community Classroom sites such as pharmacy aides, laboratory aides, admission clerks, medical receptionists, medical records clerks, nursing office clerks, physicians' answering services and health unit coordinators (ward clerk).  (525 hour program)

Offered at:       Desert High School........760.769.4179
                       KCROP..........................661.824.9313
                       Rosamond High School..661.256.5020 ext. 1513

Medical Office and Hospital Procedures (Back Office/Clinical)
Medical Office and Hospital Procedures (Clinical) is designed to develop attitudes, skill and to acquaint the student with all the clinical knowledge, duties and responsibilities expected of a medical assistant in the health care industry.  This course provides training in such facilities as in-patient, out-patient, long term care facilities, laboratory, clinic, urgent care, and special needs care.  (380 hour program)

Offered at:      KCROP.........................661.824.9313

Medical Terminology
Medical Terminology is designed to introduce students to the medical language used in hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.  It will serve as a prerequisite for students interested in taking any other medical course offered through Kern County Regional Occupational Program, including Medical Office and Hospital Procedures.

This basic terminology class introduces a system of word analysis that applies to the continual learning of new terminology.  This class offers an anatomy and physiology systems approach; it also covers prefixes, suffixes and roots or stems - the foundation of the medical "language".  Anatomy and physiology are introduced as they relate to terminology used in all aspects of the medical field.

For each chapter, students will be responsible for learning the organs of that system, word building, learning abbreviations used for that system, identifying pathology related tothat system, identifying ten procedures and ten disorders of that system, and interpreting abbreviations as they pertain to that system.  (95 hour program)

Offered at:    KCROP..................................661.824.9313
                    Rosamond High School.........661.256.5020 ext. 1513


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