We’re Number One! (In Hiring for 2012)

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The folks over at Yahoo! Education published a list of the hottest career fields for hiring in 2012.  Not surprisingly, the very top of the list, the number one hottest hiring position for 2012 was medical assistant.  The article reports that employers intend to hire medical assistants at a rate 10% higher than they did […] Read More

Shyness and the Dreaded Job Interview

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Are you painfully shy?  Do you detest having to make small talk with people, or just feel uncomfortable meeting new people in general?  Not interested in sharing personal information about yourself with a near perfect stranger?  Then you probably hate going out on job interviews.  Yet, this is something that none of us can reasonably […] Read More

Embrace “Productive Failure”

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Time magazine has an interesting article this month explaining that students learn better when left to figure out solutions to problems on their own (as opposed to being told the answers by instructors).   This is interesting news for any students, not just students of medical billing and coding at the Allen School Online.  If you’re […] Read More

OK, Just One More

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Like one more potato chip, or one more chicken nugget, i simply cannot resist yet another “junk food” post.  After this, I promise to lay off the stories about horrific fast foods (and the role these foods play in undermining in public health) for at least a little while.  Although it is a topic we […] Read More

The Mother of All Fast Food Nightmares

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Next in our continuing series on some of the worst fast-food dining options, the post linked here outdoes the KFC Double Down sandwich and the Heart Attack Grills Triple Bypass Burger.  This one earns top honors as the deadliest sandwich.  Evidently, at Burger King in Japan, customers can add fifteen pieces of bacon to their […] Read More

You Can Do This!

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If you’re just starting out in your studies of medical billing and coding or medical office assistant with the Allen School Online, you may be feeling like it is a challenge you cannot overcome.  Perhaps you decided to make a career change in mid-life and this new career path seems daunting.  Well, the following story […] Read More

The Science of “House”

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I imagine that as students of medical office assisting and medical billing and coding, Allen School Online students have an interest in all things medical.  Many of you are likely fans of the TV program “House”.  Just as this blogger-geek was a fan of Star Trek largely because of the seemingly accurate scientific underpinnings of […] Read More

We’ve Come A Long Way

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Every so often, I come across these posts revealing the state of modern medical science at points throughout history.  I like to share them with readers of the Allen School Online blog to remind us all how quickly medical technology is changing.  Heck, just the fact that you can be studying how to become a […] Read More

Medical Office Attire Around the World

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Not entirely relevant to the topic of medical billing and coding or medical assistant training, however, I thought it was pretty interesting to see the different sartorial practices of medical office professionals in different countries around the world.  This article in one of my very most favorite geeky blogsites, www.boingboing.net published this image of a […] Read More

Single parents back in school for a Healthcare career

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Many parents are in this situation. Returning to school can enable you to achieve a better life for you and your children. It is wonderful to know that upon attending school you can be able to start working and stop stressing financially.  However, like all single parents, you have to ask yourself, are you ready […] Read More