Medical Office Procedures: Task Analyses. Competency-Based Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This task analyses guide is designed to be used in combination with the "Business Education Service Area Resource" in order to implement competency-based education in the Medical Office Procedures course in Virginia. The task analyses guide contains the task inventory, suggested task sequence list, and content outline for the specific course in medical office procedures. Section 1 of this publication contains a validated task inventory for medical office procedures. For each task, applicable information pertaining to performance and enabling objectives, criterion-referenced measures, and suggested instructional activities and aids is provided. Section 2 provides a description of the business education program that incorporates medical office procedures, a description of the course, a task sequence list that provides a suggested order of the task inventory for actual course instruction, and a course content outline. The instructional topics within the course content outline have been cross-referenced with corresponding task/competency codes from the task inventory in Section 1. A resource list is included in the guide. (KC)