Copyright: 2025
Virginia Assignment Code: 6730
Suggested Grade Level: 11, 12
Duration: 36 weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
CTSO: FBLA
Course Description:
Students learn how to use medical terminology and apply administrative procedures necessary to be productive employees in a healthcare environment. Students gain management skills related to office and financial activities, maintaining electronic health records (EHR), communicating in professional healthcare settings. Students explore legal and ethical issues and will develop employability skills and explore career opportunities in healthcare. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.
Recommended prerequisite(s): Keyboarding course(s) or teacher-approved demonstration and documentation of touch keyboarding skills
Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here: