Medical Careers

Medical Careers
(Medical Assistant, Phlebotomy Technician, Medical Insurance Billing Certificated Programs, and Medical Front Office - medical terminology, computer literacy, safety and health, body structures and function, medical math, ethical and legal responsibilities, and success strategies; Anatomy & Physiology - body systems: digestive, urinary, skeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, reproductive, lymphatic, respiratory, endocrine, integumentary, sense organs, neurological and muscular )

Health Care Career Sites and Organizations:

American Health Info. Mgmt, Assn (for Medical Coding)
Explore Health Careers (a place to learn about various healthcare careers)
Health Jobs Start Here ( a list of available California job openings and training locations)

Lesson Plans & PowerPoints:

Hospitals (Lesson Plan pdf)
Collection of Medical PowerPoint Presentations and Lecture Notes (New)
Pharmacology (PowerPoint files for a McGraw Hill text on the topic)
PowerPoints on the following topics: Anatomy & Physiology, Human Diseases, Medical Law and Ethics, Medical Office Practices, Medical Terminology, Pharmacology, and Patient and Interpersonal Relations.

Other Healthcare Resources:

Learners TV a comprehensive site providing hundreds of downloadable Video lectures, Live Online Tests, and entrie courses from reputed universities, etc in the fields of Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Nursing, etc FREE to its visitors... Science Animations provide students with fun and innovative ways of learning.
English for the Nursing Assistant (helps ESL students prepare for academic studies)
Multimedia Animations of various health issues (Real Player video files - may need to download the video to play)
Quia Games for various medical related courses
Handwashing from the CDC (video)
Center for Disease Control TV (videos on many health topics)
Medical Mathematics Tutorial for Student Nurses
Quizlet Flashcards for Medical Math
Study Stack - flashcards and other activities to memorize terms and definitions for medical careers.
Medical Math for Nurses: Solving gtts/min (1:50 video)
Math for Nursing and Allied Health (21 pg pdf handout with conversions and many conversion and calculation problems)
WISC-Online (go to Learning Objects > Health - also try General Education)

Lab Tests Online (detailed information about laboratory tests )
Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body Online
InnerBody: Human Anatomy (interactive anatomy pictures and descriptions )
Merck Manual's Anatomical Drawings
Anatomy Atlases
Skeleton Label activity sheet
Easy to read Publications on Digestive, Kidney and Urologic Diseases (pdfs)

CMA (AAMA) Practice Exam: Medical Terminology (includes online questions with an answer form and then the answers to check later)
Medical Terminology Flashcards Online
Suffix Prefix Dictionary (definitions of biological and medical affixes)
Medical Billing/Coding Practice Tests
MediLexicon International (definitions for acronyms & abbreviations, etc.)
Weights & Measures conversions charts
Medline Plus Medical Dictionary
Merck Manual's Online Medical Library (help with pronunciation)
WebMD (lots of health, drug, and disease information)
Medscape (another medical info site, this one requires free registration)
U.S. National Library of Medicine (vast resource)

Dental Assisting & Hygienist Resources:

Bureau of Labor Statistics-Occupational Outlook for Dental Assistants

Dental Assisting Instructional Videos
American Academy of Periodontology
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Div. of Oral Health
HIV Dent (information on oral manifestations of HIV/AIDS)
Oral Cancer Foundation - Dental
Dental Radiology - Xrays
Dental Radiology for Dental Assisting Exam Study Guide
Infection Control for Dental Assisting Exam Study Guide
American Dental Hygienists Association - Resources
Proctor & Gamble - Dental Care Courses for Continuing Education
Dental Assisting: Head and Neck Anatomy Flashcards at Quizlet
Head, Neck, and Dental Anatomy Flashcards at Quizlet
DH Boards; Head/Neck/Dental Anatomy Flashcards at Quizlet
Visuals for Dental Hygiene from 3DToad.com

First Responder:
CPR Videos
Firefighting Search and Rescue Training - Part 1, Part 2 (videos)
Victim Search and Rescue Training (2:37 video)
Victim Search and Rescue Training (0:43 video)
Victim Search and Rescue Training (0:20 video)
Victim Search and Rescue Training (1:02 video)
Playground Fire Training (14:15 video)
Firefighter Training - Fire Hydrant (8:23 video)
Check YouTube for many other topics of training videos
EMT - Basic: National Standard Curriculum (681 pg. pdf so it will take a while to download and open)
Emergency Medical Technician: Basic Refresher Curriculum
IV and Drug Calculations for Busy Paramedics (10 pg. pdf)

Pharmacy Technician:

RxList - Internet Drug Index (includes pill identifier, image collection of diseases, etc.)
FDA Pharmaceutical Labeling Requirements: Promoting Safe Use of "Approved as Safe" Yet Risky Drugs (article)
Sig Codes (a list of abbreviations)
Dosage Help (dosage calculations and other dosage information. Warning: some of the ads are a little racey)
Drug Calculations Quiz Page
Drug Dosage Practice Problems (pdf)
Drugs.com (pill identifier)
FDA Drug Storage Requirements (CFR Code of Federal Regulations)

Massage Therapy:

Medical Assisting

Video: CMA Part 1 and Part 2 Exam Review: Confidentiality
Video: How to make it as a Medical Assistant
Bureau of Labor Statistics-Occupational Outlook for Medical Assistants

Medical Coding & Billing

American Medical Association - CPT Code/Relative Value Search
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services - Alpha-Numeric HCPCS
Medical Hierarchy - Defining Medical Team
Molecular Pathology Interpretation Code G0452
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry CPT & Reimbursement