Medical Support Careers

Medical Support programs offer students a variety of nonclinical medical career opportunities. Medical Support Careers include: Medical Secretary, Medical Transcriptionist, Medical Coding Specialist, and Health Unit Coordinator. These programs offer students a variety of nonclinical medical career opportunites. Challenging hands-on experience is provided to help prepare students for employment. Transcription of medical documents utilizing correct punctuation and capitalization emphasizing number, abbreviation, symbol, and metric measurement rules is performed. HIPAA guidelines are discussed, recognizing patients' rights to protect their medical information. Successful graduates possess invaluable skills such as ability to key accurate, detailed, personal information relating to each patient's medical, surgical, psychiatric, social, and family history. As students gain competence in their work, they will advance to more critical thinking problem solving. Students may begin fall or spring semester and may attend full time or part time. Besides being offered on campus, the Medical Secretary and Coding programs are offered online in their entirety.

Major Offerings

Career Opportunities

• Medical Centers
• Outpatient Clinics
• Insurance Companies
• Sports Medicine Facilities
• Extended Care Facilities
• Home Health Agencies
• Government Agencies

Job Placement

93% - view our tracking summary on Southeast Tech's Class of 2007

Program Highlights

• Instructors have professional experience in the program fields
• Students work with actual clinic/hospital documents
• Established affiliation agreements have been developed with area clinics/hospitals
• All programs are offered online as well as on campus

Instructors

• Patty Watson received her AAS Degree as a Medical Administrative Secretary from Western Wisconsin Technical College in LaCrosse, WI and her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Organizational Management and Communications from Concordia University in St. Paul, MN. Patty has taught at Southeast Technical since 1990. Contact Patty at pwatson@southeastmn.edu.

• Becky Korder received her AA Degree in the Medical Secretarial Program from Winona State University and her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Organizational Management and Communications from Concordia University in St. Paul, MN. Becky has taught at Southeast Technical since 2003. Contact Becky at rkorder@southeastmn.edu

• Nancy Goltz received her CPC (Certified Professional Coder) certification from the Academy of Professional Coders. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from Winona State University. Nancy has worked in the health care field for 25 years in many different capacities. Contact Nancy at ngoltz@southeastmn.edu.