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Real Estate

The housing industry is one of the most important fields in the nation's economy. Learning the critical skills needed to appraise, buy, and sell real estate can lead to a highly successful career.

In partnership with Coastal Carolinas Association of REALTORS®

You can take classes in programs like the following:

• Basic Appraisal Principles
• Residential Market Analysis
• Federal Laws Update
• Property Management
• Pre Licensing
• Post Licensing
• Broker A & B
• Mandatory Continuing Education

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Anatomy & Physiology 1 Online

This 6 week, 24 hour online course begins with an explanation of the nature of matter and a review of the principles of chemistry that are important to human physiology. Other topics include the organ systems; nervous system; skeletal and muscular systems; circulatory and respiratory systems; digestive system; endocrine system, reproductive system. By the end of this course, you'll have a greater appreciation and understanding of the marvelous complexity of the human body! 2.400 Continuing Education Units

Become an Optical Assistant

ONLINE 24 hour 6 week course. If you think you'd like to become an optical assistant, this is the course for you! You'll take a comprehensive look at the diverse world of optical assisting. You'll see why optometry is such an interesting field and how rewarding it can be to help people solve their vision problems. You will be amazed to learn all the different places optical assistants can work! You'll cover optical assisting in private practice, healthcare clinics, the military, teaching facilities, and in retail sales. You'll discover the personal and professional skills needed to work in a front and back office and in an optical dispensary and lab. You will understand all the things optical assistants must know about frames, styles, lenses, contact lenses, and working with people. Along the way, you'll discover how the human eye works, and examine some common eye conditions. Finally, you will learn how to become certified and licensed, which will open up even more opportunities for you and identify you as an expert. This course is an ideal springboard for starting a career in this growing and ever-in-demand field! 2.400 Continuing Education Units

Become A Physical Therapy Aide

This is an online 6 week, 24 hour course. Prepare for a rewarding career as a valued member of the physical therapy team while learning all about the human body, specific disorders, and the way physical therapists treat these disorders. You will explore the history of physical therapy and the relationships between physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, and physical therapy aides. You will learn how to communicate effectively with other health care professionals and patients. You'll also come to understand the medical documentation that physical therapists use and principles of ethics and law that affect the PT aide. Physical therapists often use words and terms that may be unfamiliar to you, so this course will devote some time to learning much of the language of PT. You'll learn proper body mechanics and how to safely move patients. You will come to understand the normal gait cycle and how to help patients walk with assistive devices like walkers, crutches, and canes. You will also investigate various balance and coordination disorders. By the time you finish this course, you'll have gained valuable knowledge and be well on your way to becoming an important member of the physical therapy team! 2.400 Continuing Education Units

Become a Veterinary Assist

This is an online 6-week, self-paced class. If you have ever considered a career as a veterinary assistant, you might have quite a few questions about what it is they do: What vaccinations do cats and dogs? What is the best way to control fleas? What do you do if your dog has a cut? What is the best way to deal with an emergency situation involving a pet? This course answers these questions and more. You will learn about pet nutrition and a variety of health and safety issues. You will understand how to treat and prevent parasites, including roundworms and heart worms. You will even learn the facts of life, as it pertains to dogs and cats. You will explore current thoughts on spaying and neutering, how to deal with the very emotional issues of euthanasia, pet loss, and how best to assist clients in a time of need. 2.400 Continuing Education Units

BLS CPR HC Provider

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE AHA Basic Life Support for the Healthcare Provider. This is an American Heart Association 5-hour cardiopulmonary resuscitation and AED course for healthcare providers. This course reinforces healthcare professionals' understanding of the importance of early CPR and defibrillation, basic steps of performing CPR, relieving choking, and using an AED; and the role of each link in the Chain of Survival. Textbook and CPR mask are included in the tuition. Limited enrollment. 0.500 Continuing Education Units

Cert Elec Health Rec Spe CEHRS

SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE ONLINE 6 month 134 hour course--- This is a self-guided class so it will end 6 months after your requested start date, since stated dates are not correct-Electronic health record specialists are critical in today's healthcare environment, where timely access to accurate patient records is vital to the safety and treatment of patients. This course teaches the skills required to become a certified electronic health record specialist (CEHRS) through the National Healthcareers Association (NHA), including charting, HIPAA compliance, electronic health record management, and insurance and billing. You will be prepared to work on a health information management team, auditing records, compiling reports for patient tracking, and coordinating the systems that keep our healthcare facilities operating. 13.400 Continuing Education Units

Certified Nursing Asst. Hybrid

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. This class will be held at the HGTC Grand Strand campus. A High School Diploma or GED or completion of 2 parts of GED are required. The required book & workbook is included in the class tuition. The Certified Nursing Assistant course prepares you for a career as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). This course includes an online lecture component, in-classroom instruction, skills practice and clinicals in a patient-care setting. This is an intense six-week course. You will be required to get the following and provide it: PPD/TB Test, Physical, Flu Shot, Drug Test, and SLED background check. The following components must be completed: 1.FACET Healthcare Training (the online book/knowledge component) 2.Face-to-Face Skills Practice 3.40 Clinical hours in a healthcare facility. You will receive an email with your FACET login credentials as well as a Student Expectation Form, a Course Pacing Guide, and a Skills Practice/Clinical hours schedule. PLEASE NOTE: You will be required to attend in-person classes for the first three weeks of class (Monday-Friday) at either 8am-11am OR 12pm-3pm and five 8-hour clinical shifts that will vary throughout the remainder of the six weeks. While attending these sessions, you must be engaged in skills learning as either a provider, a patient, coach, or evaluator. These hours may not be used to work on FACETs, you will have to complete that on your own time. Clinical sites will be in various locations throughout Horry and Georgetown counties. FACETs requirements: There are 74 quizzes. On the FACETs homepage, under the heading QUIZZES you will find Lesson Plans (24 quizzes), Skills (22 quizzes), Knowledge/Written (26 quizzes), Math (2 quizzes). REQUIRED SUPPLIES NOT INCLUDED IN SCHOLARSHIP: Cobalt blue scrubs (sold at HGTC bookstores or any scrub retailer). Optional Purchases: Watch with a second hand and Stethoscope. 10.000 Continuing Education Units

Cert Inpatient Coder w/ Vouch

SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE Online 6 month, 170 hour class. This is a self-guided class so it will end 6 months after your requested start date, since stated dates are not correct. Demand for medical coders will grow 13% by 2026, so there's no better time to advance your career. This online medical coding course will train you to become a Certified Inpatient Coder. The AAPC Certified Inpatient Coder (CIC™) credential proves that you are an expert in inpatient medical records review. Earning CIC™ certification requires previous work experience, so most professionals prepare for the exam while working full-time. With this course's flexible online format, you can prepare for the CIC™ exam on your own schedule. A Chromebook is not compatible. While there is no experience requirement, it is strongly recommended that you have at least two years of experience in inpatient coding or an inpatient coding course. 17.000 Continuing Education Units

Cert Outpatient Coder

SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE Online 6 month, 200 hour class. This is a self-guided class so it will end 6 months after your requested start date, since stated dates are not correct. Medical coding for outpatient facilities is an important skillset to help outpatient hospitals/facilities receive appropriate reimbursement and maintain compliance with coding guidelines and government/payer regulations. The material is presented in a step-by-step manner, and you will learn by completing readings and completing interactive lectures. The course also includes quizzes and exams, so you can test your skills at regular intervals throughout the material. Through these methods, you will learn essential introductory and advanced medical coding skills for outpatient hospitals/facilities. You will also receive access to the AAPC Advanced ICD-10-CM Online Code Set Training which will take your ICD-10-CM coding skills to a higher level. You will get hands-on training that includes coding for conditions such as, clinical concepts for comprehensive coding of conditions, insight on chronic and acute conditions, and practical coding exercises. Upon completion of this course you will be prepared for the AAPC Certified Outpatient Coder (COC) exam. This course offers enrollment with or without a voucher. The voucher is prepaid access to AAPC membership, COC practice exams, access to the Practicode tool, and the AAPC Certified Outpatient Coder (COC™) exam. A Chromebook is not compatible. Requires strong knowledge of anatomy and medical terminology. 20.000 Continuing Education Units

Cert Risk Adjustment Coder

SCHOLARSHIP INCLUDED Online 6 month 160 hour class This is a self-guided class so it will end 6 months after your requested start date, since stated dates are not correct. (It may be completed in less time) Prepare yourself for the CRC Certification Exam and begin a new and rewarding career path. This course teaches fundamental medical coding skills for risk adjustment coding. The course covers ICD-10-CM coding for all risk adjustment models (HCC, HHS-ACA, CDPS) and assures a broad knowledge in reviewing and assigning the correct diagnosis codes for all risk adjustment models. The registration fee for this course includes AAPC membership, CRC practice exams, and the AAPC Certified Risk Adjustment Coder (CRC™) exam. In this course you will learn the varying risk adjustment models and the effects of predictive modeling and quality of care. This information will help you understand the impact on risk adjustment models driven by quality of care and predictive modeling. You will be able to identify common errors in diagnosis coding and determine documentation barriers encountered when coding for risk adjustment. Finally, you will utilize practical diagnosis coding skills as they complete hands-on cases throughout the course. A Chromebook is not compatible. There are no prerequisites to take this course. However, knowledge of medical terminology and anatomy (or AAPC courses) is strongly recommended. 16.000 Continuing Education Units

Clinical Medical Assistant

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE Prerequisites: Medical Terminology, and Anatomy & Physiology I. A High School Diploma or GED is required. Clinical Medical Assistants work in physician’s offices where they may prepare the patient for examination, administer oral medications, assist healthcare providers during clinical procedures, adhere to HIPPA regulations, and document medical information. Course work includes 144 hours of classroom lecture. 2-Step PPD and the stethoscope will be at your own expense. The books are included with the course. They are Hartman's Medical Assisting, The Basics ISBN: 9781604251487 and Hartman's Medical Assisting Workbook ISBN: 9781604251494. Students may sit for the National Healthcareer Association (NHA) Certified Clinical Medical Assistant exam upon successful completion of the course and the required prerequisites. 14.000 Continuing Education Units

EMT 200hr

No Description Available 20.000 Continuing Education Units

Explore Admin Med Assist

Online self-paced 6-week course. Learn what it takes to have a successful career as an administrative medical assistant in the exciting and high-demand world of healthcare. In this course, you will master the basics of scheduling patients' appointments, surgeries, and hospital admissions. In addition, you will discover how to create, maintain, and file medical charts. You will also find out how to verify patients' insurance, create encounter forms (charge tickets), post charges, obtain pre-authorizations from insurers, and schedule return visits. After that, go behind the scenes as you learn how to apply diagnostic and procedure codes to patients' accounts and bill their insurance companies. Next, explore additional accounts receivable tasks including posting payments and adjustments, billing secondary insurance, and following up on unpaid insurance claims. You will also learn what a day sheet is, why it's important, and how to keep track of all your patient accounts on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Finally, delve into the basics of keeping a medical office running smoothly—from ordering supplies to scheduling staff meetings and making travel arrangements. If you're organized, a *people person,* and interested in a secure job in the healthcare field, a career as an administrative medical assistant may be just what you're looking for. This course will set you on the path to that career and help you determine which aspect of medical information management, such as patient contact or billing and coding, suits you best. 2.400 Continuing Education Units

Explore Medical Coding Career

This is an online 6 week, 24 hour course. Take your first step toward a lucrative career as a medical coder! In this course, you'll learn how to use the CPT manual and the ICD-10-CM to find medical codes for any disease, condition, treatment, or surgical procedure. This knowledge will help prepare you to work almost anywhere in the medical field—doctors' offices, clinics, public health facilities, hospitals, labs, nursing homes, insurance agencies, or even the comfort of your own home. We'll go through each of the main systems of the human body—integumentary (skin), musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and male and female genitourinary—outlining the medical terminology, conditions, diseases, injuries, treatments, and procedures you'll see most often in each of those systems. Along the way, we'll go through lots of real-world examples and coding exercises to get you using your coding tools in conjunction with your analytical skills to come up with just the right codes to describe any medical situation. In the process, you'll get all the hands-on experience you'll need to code medical insurance claims with confidence. By the end of this course, you'll know how to find your way through both the CPT manual and the ICD-10-CM manual, and you'll be well on your way to a career as a medical coder! ONLINE ONLY 2.400 Continuing Education Units

Medical Office Manager (CPPM)

SCHOLARSHIP AVAILABLE Online 18 month 555 hour class This is a self-guided class so it will end 18 months after your requested start date, since stated dates are not correct. (It may be completed in less time) Medical office managers and administrative medical assistants are versatile and valuable members of the healthcare team who can handle a broad range of duties, including patient registration, telephone, scheduling, medical records, accounts receivable, data entry, compliance regulations, human resources, and health information. This in-depth program combines several programs, Medical Terminology, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA), Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist (CEHRS), and Certified Physician Practice Manager (CPPM), to give you the foundation and training needed to be a Medical Office Manager. Medical Terminology will give you a full understanding of word origins to their application. You'll learn the correct terms and spelling for all of the body systems, major pathological conditions, disorders, treatments, medications, and more. Microsoft Office skills are important skills to have in any profession or workplace. Being able to work with Office programs is a must in today's workplace, you will learn essential introductory and advanced Office skills in Microsoft Word and Excel programs. You will be prepared for the Microsoft exams MO-201 and MO-211 (Excel) and MO-101 and MO-111 (Word). The fees for these exams are not included in this course. In Certified Medical Administrative Assist (CMAA) you will learn how to handle the increasing complexities of healthcare management and patient care in offices of physicians, offices of other providers, clinics, urgent care centers, ambulatory surgery centers, hospital departments and emergency rooms, home health agencies, assisted living facilities, educational institutions and group homes. This medical office manager certification course also incl 55.500 Continuing Education Units

Medical Terminology-Online

This online 6 week, 24 hour course teaches medical terminology from an anatomical approach. Root terms are divided by each body system. The origin, a combined form, and an example of non-medical everyday usage is provided for each root term. Word Associations are provided as a learning tool. Unusual and interesting information is provided in regards to each term. Root terms are combined with prefixes and suffixes as your learning will culminate in the interpretation of several paragraphs of medical notes. 2.400 Continuing Education Units

Veterinary Medical Terminology

To work in the veterinary field, you need to understand the medical language unique to the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of animals. This online course will teach you the definition and uses of veterinary medical terminology. You will master veterinary medical terminology through a simplified learning process that builds on commonly used word parts. Each course lesson is designed to build on this foundation, with the material and illustrations focusing on the new word parts and definitions needed for success in the veterinary field. 2.400 Continuing Education Units