HIM Weekly Wednesday - AHIMA Career Map

Hi everyone, Happy Wednesday! This week I would like to point you towards the career map that AHIMA has available. I love this map for several reasons:

1. It organizes potential jobs into the main areas that HIM graduates tend to work, giving you a better understanding of where your career will be headed;
2. It lists many, many job titles so you can see all of the types of opportunities you will have upon graduation;
3. It shows a progression of jobs that you may strive for as you gain more and more experience.

Take a look at the map and find your area of interest and click away! I hope that this will clarify a career path for you and get you even more excited about this great profession!
This will be our last Weekly Wednesday until the new year. The next two Wednesdays are holidays, and I hope that they find you all happy and healthy. Enjoy your break and Happy Holidays!
Cindy Glewwe, M.Ed., RHIA
Director, Health Information Management Program
Charter Oak State College
55 Paul J. Manafort Drive
New Britain, CT 06053
(Ph.) 860-515-3833
cglewwe@charteroak.edu

HIM Weekly Wednesday - Course Scheduling Guide

Hello! I hope this finds you all merry with holiday preparations and the anticipation of a break from school soon! I hope that the break will rejuvenate you and bring you back in mid-January with new energy and a fresh outlook.
This week I am linking to a document that we hope will assist you with scheduling your classes for each term. It can also help you with your long-term plan and goals for graduating.
Before you take a look at the document, please understand that this is only a GUIDE. It is not written in stone, and it will likely go through some updates as we work with it and find what is good about it and what might need some tweaking. Having a “written in stone” document for sequencing your courses is impossible because our students can start in any term and each and every one of you come to COSC with differing educational backgrounds which means all different course transfer scenarios. In fact, few of you will likely be able to follow the suggested course scheduling exactly as written. But we decided that this would be a good start, and it may help you to feel more confident and organized when you are choosing your courses.
Frank Valier and I will help you to navigate this document if you have questions or concerns. When you are having an advising meeting with Frank, the two of you could use the document to map out your own personal schedule. I am happy to help as well! Please do not hesitate to email me or Frank with any questions you may have.
Happy Wednesday!
Cindy Glewwe, M.Ed., RHIA
Director, Health Information Management Program
Charter Oak State College
55 Paul J. Manafort Drive
New Britain, CT 06053
(Ph.) 860-515-3833
cglewwe@charteroak.edu

HIM Weekly Wednesday - AHIMA Student Academy

Hi everyone! Happy Wednesday! I hope you all had an enjoyable and relaxing Thanksgiving.
Today I bring you a fantastic opportunity from AHIMA. Each fall at the AHIMA Convention they offer a Student Academy. This year they recorded all of the presentations and they are offering them to you for free! You can pick and choose which presentations you would like to listen to - or be really ambitious and listen to them all! I hope you are as excited as I am about the topics covered in these presentations. Really good stuff! The quality is really good and I think it would be so beneficial for you all to take the time to view these. I know you are all busy - but how about viewing just one each week? Most only last about 20 minutes.
Simply visit the AHIMA Student Academy and then enter this for the member number required: 0463379.
Enjoy! And I welcome any feedback about them once you have had a chance to view them!
Cindy Glewwe, M.Ed., RHIA
Director, Health Information Management Program
Charter Oak State College
55 Paul J. Manafort Drive
New Britain, CT 06053
(Ph.) 860-515-3833
cglewwe@charteroak.edu