Public Health Matters in Medical Assistant Training

The Allen School Blog always covers current events as they relate to public health issues such as outbreaks of disease, pandemic potentials, etc.  We were on top of the Avian Flu and the Swine Flu when those two items were in the news.  We also tracked the spread of the “flesh-eating bacteria” that was on […] Read More

Unlike Medical Billing Classes Online, This Technology is Bad Medicine

We do a lot of praising of technology at the Allen School Blog for the amazingly positive role it plays in delivering convenient access to medical billing classes online.  We also love to cover stories about groundbreaking technological breakthroughs within the medical field and the excellent consequences of applying hi tech to medicine.  But it […] Read More

Healthcare Training School is for Everyone

So, what do mail carriers, farmers, meter readers, newspaper reporters, travel agents, lumberjacks, flight attendants, drill press operators, printing workers and tax collectors have in common?  They’re all endangered species.  Yes, that’s right.  These ten jobs top the list of the most endangered occupations by Forbes magazine.  Notice that many of these jobs have a […] Read More

Killer Android Voice Recorder Good for Medical Assistant Training

Lectures and classroom discussions are often chock full of dense, idea-rich content.  Especially in healthcare training schools where medical assistant training and other detailed classes are held.  If you’re like me, you cannot possibly take comprehensive notes quickly enough.  Or if you do, you’ve focused so much mental energy on transcribing, that you’re not actually […] Read More

Healthcare Training School Students, Eat a Solid Breakfast

It has often been referred to as “the most important meal of the day”.  Breakfast, or the meal wherein you break the overnight fast you undertake every night while you sleep, is a crucial meal.  Especially for students.  All studies show that having a solid, well balanced meal in the morning provides you with the […] Read More

Completed Medical Billing Classes Online? Learn How to Ace Job Interviews Online

So you’re no rookie.  You’ve recently completed your medical billing classes online with the Allen School.  You’re ready to take your new education out for a spin through the job marketplace. It probably won’t surprise you to learn then, that much of the “legwork” involved in running down promising jobs and then negotiating first, second […] Read More

7 Ways to Blow the Nursing Assistant Job Interview

Getting your nursing assistant certification with the Allen School prepares you to enter into an exciting field with plenty of opportunity in every corner of the USA.  Yet, nursing assistant education may not fully include the information you need to perform well in the job interview process.  Aside from the placement assistance offered by Allen […] Read More

How World Cup Soccer is Like Medical Billing Schools

El Copa Mundial – that’s the World Cup for those uninitiated.  First and foremost, let me offer the US World Cup soccer team good luck wishes from all of us here at the Allen School, one of America’s leading medical billing schools.  Good luck Team USA in your game tonight against the formidable team from […] Read More