HIT 219 — Professional Practical Experience
This course is a supervised work experience that provides studentswith exposure to coding practices in a hospital, physician’s office, clinicor other healthcare setting with directed projects common to thetypical coding tasks of a clinical coding specialist. Students areintroduced to the health information process and coding proceduresthrough observation, study and work. This experience will be a hands-on experience coding authentic patient records, whether through afield-based or virtual professional practice experience. Students mustbe available to complete a 60-hour internship during the semester toinclude actual coding time, recorded presentations and otherresources made available to the student. HIT 219 cannot be takenuntil all other program requirements have been successfullycompleted.