MCC Offers Five New Online Courses for Spring Semester
FIVE NEW ONLINE COURSES OFFERED FOR SPRING SEMESTER
Are you currently in the health care field and looking for new career options? Does
your schedule prevent you from taking traditional in-person classes? If so, check
out the five new online courses that Madisonville Community College will be offering
in the upcoming spring semester. Chief Academic Affairs Officer Dr. Deborah Cox shared,
MCC is proud of the quality and variety of online experiences it has to offer students
in this region. Our college is recognized for its exceptional variety of career programs
leading to well-paying employment, and the online programs and courses make these
more accessible to the students in our area.
Two of the new online courses, GLY 130 Dinosaurs and Disasters: A Brief History
of the Vertebrates and the accompanying lab GLY 131 Dinosaur Laboratory, will satisfy
the Natural Sciences general education requirement for degree and diploma options.
The lecture course examines dinosaurs interactions with their environment, their indirect
influence on mammals, and implications for humankind. The history of dinosaurs from
early vertebrate ancestors to their final extinction will be traced and the course
surveys the evolutionary, paleogeographic, environmental, and possible extraterrestrial
causes for their rise to dominance and sudden fall. The laboratory course will involve
analysis and interpretation of fossils, scale models, and sedimentary rocks to interpret
ancient environments, dinosaur anatomy and geologic history.
In addition, MCC s new Health Care Informatics (HCI) program will be implemented in
January 2014. Offered online, HCI is a discipline that integrates information science
and computer science into the health care professions, gaining the ability to combine
resources, devices and methods required for the acquisition, storage, retrieval and
use of collected information and data in health sciences and biomedicine. HCI provides
a tremendous advantage to health care practitioners through the combination of health
care concepts and information technology management that is an integral part of the
health care industry. Obtaining HCI certificates increases practitioner knowledge
and skills that are required to aid in the reduction of health care costs, expanding
access to quality care and improving the quality of services. Health Care Informatics
is an expanding field that is rapidly becoming an excellent career option for many
health care professionals. Health Care Informaticists work in a variety of environments
including hospitals, clinics, physician offices, public health agencies, technological
firms/vendors, research facilities and insurance. The typical salary in the health
care informatics field ranges from $35,000 to $50,000.
Health Care Informatics is a selective admission program and enrollment requires a
minimum of an associate degree in health care or a related field, or consent of the
program coordinator/instructor. Two credential options are available Health Care
Informatics Certificate (12 credits) and Health Care Informatics Project Management
Certificate (16 credits).
The three online HCI courses offered for the spring semester are:
HCI 200 - Introduction to Health Care Informatics
Provides the foundation by introducing basic concepts, historical development, current
and future trends in the specialized discipline and the role of the informaticist
in health care organizations. Clarifies the skills and knowledge required for successful
integration of real-time documentation in health care informatics and management of
that technology within the health care system
HCI 210 - Management of Health Care Information and System Security Provides students
with fundamental concepts in the discipline of health care informatics security systems
that are required in the management of electronic data. Prepares the student to maintain
data information system security within established standards of practice.
HCI 220 - Database Systems In Health Care
Provides students with the concepts that are fundamental to the field of health care
informatics database principles. Includes the development of data set management,
the importance of accurate data input and mapping information extracted from the health
care documentation system
To learn more about the Health Care informatics program, visit MCC s webpage at https://madisonville.kctcs.edu.
For additional information or to register for spring semester courses, contact MCC
s Enrollment Center at (270) 824-8621.
