Business Skills   

This course is designed to have the student become familiar with the procedure coding book and be confident in choosing the correct code to represent the service performed by the physician. The procedure code must complement the diagnosis code in order for a medical bill to be paid correctly. This course will make the CPT coding book user-friendly so students will be able to identify evaluation and management codes, surgery codes, radiology and pathology codes, medicine codes, as well as modifiers. 
Book required: Current Procedural Terminology Coding book (any year from 2000 on).

This course focuses on instruction in standard bookkeeping procedures and the small professional, service, merchandising, and retail sole proprietorships. Emphasis is given to journals, posting, preparation of a trial balance, and financial statement, and procedures for handling petty cash, bank deposits, withdrawals, and payroll.

Book required: Small Business Accounting, Lita Epstein with Susan Myers. Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-19863-6. Book is only a reference; not all chapters will be covered.

A course designed for those with no AutoCAD experience. This seminar is designed to acquaint the beginner with AutoCAD as a tool to create working drawings. Topics will include the following: the AutoCAD menu structure, file creation, formatting, using object snaps, draw commands including lines, arcs, rectangles, polygon, and hatching. Modifying commands including erase, copy, move, offset, trim, extend, stretch, mirror, array, fillet and scaling, drawing and modifying text, and dimensioning will be covered. Creation of blocks and templates, use of symbol libraries including furniture, windows and doors, concepts of model space and paper space are explored, as well as plotting drawings.