Author Description

This online course reinforces the important concepts of the Step-by-Step Medical Coding, 2007 Edition text, offering concise lessons that incorporate figures, photographs, audio narrated slide shows, and links to relevant websites. It guides learners through the content, directing them to read from the text at appropriate intervals. Written as if the author were the instructor, this course makes website navigation easy, checks comprehension along the way, and provides feedback and encouragement. Also available in a money-saving package that includes the textbook. Modules correspond to the text's table of contents. Each lesson includes an end-of-chapter review with self-assessment exercises, and a scored chapter exam. Lessons include focused learning objectives and a reading assignment from the text, followed by a "lecture" on what they just read, including periodic self-comprehension questions and learning activities with feedback for answers. Figures and "slide shows" further clarify concepts and clinical procedures that students are learning how to code. Each lesson ends with a self-assessment quiz. Interactive review and exercises at the end of each chapter include more self-comprehension questions as well as a unique case-based activity designed specifically for medical coding. Responses on all chapter exams are scored and reported to the instructor by being incorporated in each student's grade book. Instructors may add their own exam questions and self-created content.