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The Department Chair – Vicki Bond or the members of the Health Science Division administrative staff will always be happy to answer your questions or to direct you to someone who can. We’d rather answer one question 15 times than to have you wondering about the answer.

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Advising is all important when it comes to student success.

Pikes Peak State College want to help you learn and earn that degree.

Vicki Bond is the coordinator and chair of the Medical Reception and Coding programs.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to call

Vicki at 719-502-3324

Kim at 719-502-3523.

Or email at either:

vicki.bond@pikespeak.edu

kim.kirkland@pikespeak.edu.

You may also contact the division office at 719-502-3336 to make an appointment.

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COURSE QUESTIONS:

Currently PPSC does not have a degree program for reception or coding students students. Most of the courses from these certificate programs may be applied towards the AAS Medical Assistant degree.

The medical receptionist certificate program requires 3 courses as program prerequisites:
- CIS 118 PC Applications or CSC 105 Computer Literacy
- HPR 102 CPR for Professionals or hold a current CPR from an American Heart Association approved training program.
- COM 115 Public Speaking or COM 125 Interpersonal Communication or COM 225 Organizational Communication or ENG 121 English Composition I or ENG 131 Technical Writing.
  - Some classes have a prerequisite course of CCR 092 or the accuplacer reading comprehension and sentences skills. www.ppcc.edu/testing-center/placement-testing/over...
  - Students who do not test out of CCR 092 must take the class before being able to register for certain courses. Students will also have to take AAA 109 Advancing Academic Achievement. Please review the advising sheets.

A national criminal background check and 10-panel drug screen is required of each and every Phlebotomy student at Pikes Peak State College. In order to participate in the Phlebotomy & Advanced Phlebotomy courses, you will be required to order a background check and drug screen through CastleBranch. You will be responsible for the $63.00 fee at the time of order. This is a Colorado Community College System requirement; therefore, any previous background check completed for employment will not suffice.
This policy is implemented and monitored by the PPSC Human Resource Services Department. The screening is not to be completed by students prior to meeting with a program adviser.
The screen is completed prior to beginning the internship. Students are required to meet with the program coordinator the semester prior to internship for clearance. At this meeting the coordinator will give instructions and information needed when the student attends the mandatory internship meeting at the end of the preceding term.

Students are required to sign a Waiver of Rights, Assumption of Risk, and Release of Liability, Agreement in MOT 136 before they may start the laboratory part of these courses that involve the use of needles / lancets / sharp object for any type of demonstration or performance of bodily fluid specimen / simulation of body fluid acquisition.
Clinical sites require students to have a current CPR certification and proof of Vaccination. And the completion of a criminal background check and drug screening.

- An education and career in medical office or coding can be quite demanding physically and mentally. View the Colorado Community College Essential Skills, which contains certain information concerning physical and academic rigor, which is expected of all phlebotomy students.
Will the program accept grades below a C?

Currently PPSC does not have a degree program for reception or coding students students. Most of the courses from these certificate programs may be applied towards the AAS Medical Assistant degree.

AAS Medical Assistant degree.

The medical receptionist certificate program requires 3 courses as program prerequisites:

- CIS 118 PC Applications or CSC 105 Computer Literacy
- HPR 102 CPR for Professionals or hold a current CPR from an American Heart Association approved training program.
- COM 115 Public Speaking or COM 125 Interpersonal Communication or COM 225 Organizational Communication or ENG 121 English Composition I or ENG 131 Technical Writing.
  - Some classes have a prerequisite course of CCR 092 or the accuplacer reading comprehension and sentences skills. www.ppcc.edu/testing-center/placement-testing/over...
  - Students who do not test out of CCR 092 must take the class before being able to register for certain courses. Students will also have to take AAA 109 Advancing Academic Achievement. Please review the advising sheets.

CIS 118 PC Applications or CSC 105 Computer Literacy
HPR 102 CPR for Professionals or hold a current CPR from an American Heart Association approved training program.
COM 115 Public Speaking or COM 125 Interpersonal Communication or COM 225 Organizational Communication or ENG 121 English Composition I or ENG 131 Technical Writing.
- Some classes have a prerequisite course of CCR 092 or the accuplacer reading comprehension and sentences skills. www.ppcc.edu/testing-center/placement-testing/over...
- Students who do not test out of CCR 092 must take the class before being able to register for certain courses. Students will also have to take AAA 109 Advancing Academic Achievement. Please review the advising sheets.

Some classes have a prerequisite course of CCR 092 or the accuplacer reading comprehension and sentences skills. www.ppcc.edu/testing-center/placement-testing/over...
Students who do not test out of CCR 092 must take the class before being able to register for certain courses. Students will also have to take AAA 109 Advancing Academic Achievement. Please review the advising sheets.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

HPR is a discipline prefix designated from the state college system for Health Professional classes.

MOT stands for Medical Office Technology and MAP stands for Medical Assistant Professional.

When students take the Medical Terminology class, HPR 139 (formerly numbered HPR 178) they must take the PPSC online sections.

HPR 139 MUST be completed in the students first semester.

Additional Information

A national criminal background check and 10-panel drug screen is required of each and every Phlebotomy student at Pikes Peak State College. In order to participate in the Phlebotomy & Advanced Phlebotomy courses, you will be required to order a background check and drug screen through CastleBranch. You will be responsible for the $63.00 fee at the time of order. This is a Colorado Community College System requirement; therefore, any previous background check completed for employment will not suffice.
This policy is implemented and monitored by the PPSC Human Resource Services Department. The screening is not to be completed by students prior to meeting with a program adviser.
The screen is completed prior to beginning the internship. Students are required to meet with the program coordinator the semester prior to internship for clearance. At this meeting the coordinator will give instructions and information needed when the student attends the mandatory internship meeting at the end of the preceding term.

CastleBranch

Students are required to sign a Waiver of Rights, Assumption of Risk, and Release of Liability, Agreement in MOT 136 before they may start the laboratory part of these courses that involve the use of needles / lancets / sharp object for any type of demonstration or performance of bodily fluid specimen / simulation of body fluid acquisition.
Clinical sites require students to have a current CPR certification and proof of Vaccination. And the completion of a criminal background check and drug screening.

Waiver of Rights, Assumption of Risk, and Release of Liability

An education and career in medical office or coding can be quite demanding physically and mentally. View the Colorado Community College Essential Skills, which contains certain information concerning physical and academic rigor, which is expected of all phlebotomy students.

Colorado Community College Essential Skills

No, all courses within both certificate programs must be passed with a letter grade of C or better to be applicable to the program.

What do I need to do to graduate after successfully completing all of the degree program classes?

All students must submit an application to graduate to the college by a specified date for the semester of completion. This program is considered a Certificate of Achievement.

application to graduate

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