Re: Trouble in Paradise?


> That's one of the major problems I have with the CMT exam. Being able
> to research effectively is so important in this field, especially for
> working in multispecialty hospitals, and that's not taken into account
> at all.
>
> Anne

Whatever form the test is in, somebody somewhere will have a beef with
it. This spring I took the registered health information adminstrator
exam which covers a boatload of stuff including hospital statistics,
coding, quality assurance measurements, budgets, etc., etc., etc. It
was a test of merely what I took in there with my head (they did
provide a few basic formulats about various hospital census numbers,
that was it). Any RHIA should be able to know how to research all of
these topics and more, but I felt the test was certainly valid for what
I had learned in my HIM program. I'm sure that such a test could be
fashioned for MT and be a valid indicator of the skills needed to do
the job. This is simply not a valid criticism for the new exam.

Gisele


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