Allen School Healthcare Training Blog

Margie White, Manager Instructional Services Department Allen School’s Online Medical Insurance Billing & Coding Program Q: What have you found to be the biggest misconception the students have about taking courses online? A: Before they begin, the students fear that there will be no interaction. You have to have good instructors. Surprisingly, students who normally […] Read More

Dear Editor: I believe that I was asked illegal questions on a recent job interview. I wasn’t sure, so I answered them. I am uncomfortable with the entire situation and now I feel that at I shouldn’t have answered them. But, again, I’m not sure if they were illegal to ask. What are examples of […] Read More

How do you spell JOBS? S-T-I-M-U-L-U-S, that’s how! And President Barack Obama’s stimulus package, officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, includes multiple components designed to provide relief in the form of JOBS for the health care industry. The measure includes $500 million to stimulate public health jobs and will also be used to […] Read More

From working as a maid at the Holiday Inn…Margie White, Instructional Services Manager of Allen School’s new online Medical Insurance Billing & Coding program, stepped out of the shadows to make a difference For almost 75 years, millions of children have been reading Nancy Drew mystery books which feature a teen detective whose independence, bravery […] Read More

I graduated recently and have been sending out resumes on my own to find a job. I was wondering what you think I should include in my resume to make it stand out. Besides internship, I have no other related experience. Is there any way that I can show that I am really responsible, organized […] Read More

The United States Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program was the recipient for the second year of the plentiful donation of toys contributed by students and staff during the Allen School Brooklyn Campus Annual Toy Drive supporting the Marine Reservists’ goal “to deliver, through a shiny new toy at Christmas, a message of hope […] Read More

PATRICK SWAYZE AND MEDICAL ASSISTANT STUDENT “ACTING IN CONCERT” Actor Patrick Swayze described his fight with pancreatic cancer as “going through hell.” It never stopped him, however, from meeting the challenges of taking on the grueling lead role in a television series. He told Barbara Walters, “I’ve never been one to run from a challenge.” […] Read More

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama If you find it […] Read More

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Gero Huetter, a German hematologist at Berlin’s Charité Hospital, has reported that a 42-year-old leukemia patient, upon whom he performed a bone marrow transplant, appears to also have been cured of HIV. The patient suffered from HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus) for more than a decade. Twenty months after the bone marrow transplant, the doctor […] Read More