Friday, January 6, 2012
Welcome
Hi, my name is Lilly Bargioni. Welcome to my Pathways Medical Assisting blog. This blog will keep an updated log of everything I'll be doing in the Pathways program I am currently taking. The Pathways Program is a small learning community designed to engage students through an individualized educational curriculum with a focus on "making real" the post-graduation opportunities that are available to students. Our goal is to help our students to find their passion and their path to future careers through a combination of internships and apprenticeships, as well as successful completion of college courses, and/or vocational training through the Regional Occupation Program (ROP) while also earning their highschool doploma. This program will set me up with an internship at Kaiser Permanente in Marin County, and I will be taking a few classes at College of Marin; such as Medical Terminology 1, Medical Office Computers Lecture, and Medical Office Computers Laboratory.
How it all began
I went to highschool for three and a half years at Sir Francis Drake High School. Things took a turn and the best thing for me to do was to transfer to San Andreas High School, where I took normal classes for about two months. When I heard about the Pathways program here, I knew it was the right thing for me. It is a program for seniors in highschool to get a jump start into their future if they know what they are interested in. I already knew that my future was destined to be in a hospital, and I have been very eager to get out of highschool and to start focussing on somthing that I am really interested in. So I applied for the pathways program, and was accepted and I am really looking forward to getting a jumpstart on my career.
What I am learning
I am currently enrolled in three classes at College of Marin;
Leuk/emia - emia is the suffix, meaning blood condition, and leuk/o is the word root meaning white. When you put them in combining form the word leukemia means white blood condition.
The second week of classes got a little harder. We started getting more into lectures on medical terms and how to analyze them. We learned the three steps to analyzing medical terms:
1. Divide the term.
2. Label each word part
3. Label each combining vowel.
We were also assigned a test for the next week on Chapter 1. (Word roots, prefixes, suffixes, combining vowels, and some medical terms)
The Medisoft class also started picking up a bit. We had a lecture on how to sign on, back up, restore, and save our data on the medisoft program. After the lecture we got to go into the computer lab and try it for ourselves.
This week we had our test for medical terminology. I fealt great after the test, I fealt very confident with all the information. After we finished the test we started a new lecture on chapter 2, which was significantly harder then the first. Now we are currently learning about oncology,the study of tumors and how they develop from excessive growth of cells from a body part. There are two types of tumors, benign (non canerous), and malignant (canerous). We are also learning about disease and disorder oncology terms, such as adenoma (tumor composed of glandular tissue), epithelioma (tumor composed of epithelium) and many others. I am still currently working on chapter learning about body structure terms.
The medisoft class has picked up a lot, we have been working in the lab alot and creating new patients in the software. We have learned how to create a new patient, edit their information, add new businesses, back save and restore their data.
- Medical Terminology 1
- Medical Office Computers (Lecture)
- Medical Office Computers (Laboratory)
Leuk/emia - emia is the suffix, meaning blood condition, and leuk/o is the word root meaning white. When you put them in combining form the word leukemia means white blood condition.
The second week of classes got a little harder. We started getting more into lectures on medical terms and how to analyze them. We learned the three steps to analyzing medical terms:
1. Divide the term.
2. Label each word part
3. Label each combining vowel.
We were also assigned a test for the next week on Chapter 1. (Word roots, prefixes, suffixes, combining vowels, and some medical terms)
The Medisoft class also started picking up a bit. We had a lecture on how to sign on, back up, restore, and save our data on the medisoft program. After the lecture we got to go into the computer lab and try it for ourselves.
This week we had our test for medical terminology. I fealt great after the test, I fealt very confident with all the information. After we finished the test we started a new lecture on chapter 2, which was significantly harder then the first. Now we are currently learning about oncology,the study of tumors and how they develop from excessive growth of cells from a body part. There are two types of tumors, benign (non canerous), and malignant (canerous). We are also learning about disease and disorder oncology terms, such as adenoma (tumor composed of glandular tissue), epithelioma (tumor composed of epithelium) and many others. I am still currently working on chapter learning about body structure terms.
The medisoft class has picked up a lot, we have been working in the lab alot and creating new patients in the software. We have learned how to create a new patient, edit their information, add new businesses, back save and restore their data.
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