Business Roundtable - Desert Regional Medical Center - February 12th
The enthusuasm and generosity of the DRMC participants was wonderful! I was particularly interested in the discussion of Medical Coding as a career/vocational skill that would be appropriate for the health academies. Several questions arose in my mind...The hospital apparently employees 16 people in this field with one position open at any given time. Assuming this is also true at JFK and Eisenhower, that means that 3 such positions would be available at any given time. If the various health academies turnout more than 9 (3 times the number needed), what happens to the others. To what other application could the skills learned be put?? Brings up the whole issue of how to prepare students for today's economic needs with the knowlege that these skulls will be obsolete in less than 3 years unless the student chooses to prepare him/herself for lifetime employ-ability (openness to change and tech interest/commitment) rather than life time career.
It was a great meeting, plenty of energy and positive feedback. That's what you want from meetings. The hospital is like a min-city in itself, with different work areas to explore and many job titles not really known to the regular folk. Very nice experience indeed. ~ Mr Perez
ReplyDelete