Welcome, Medical Billing & Coding students!
This page will provide specific details and resources for Medical Billing & Coding externships.
Please feel free to contact lheredia@euhsd.org with questions regarding the Medical Billing & Coding externship process.
For questions about MBC externships, please contact Lea Heredia at lheredia@euhsd.org
MBC EXTERNSHIPS ARE CURRENTLY ON HOLD AS WE DO NOT HAVE PARTICIPATING FACILITIES AT THIS TIME.
However, if you are in contact with a facility willing to provide you an externship we would be happy to process an Affiliation Agreement to establish a partnership. Please see the "Home" page for instructions to establish a new externship contract.
*Please read all sections below to understand essential externship procedures and standards of practice specific to medical billing & coding externships.*
If you have not read ALL of the requirements listed on the EAS Externship website "Home" page, GO BACK and read the Home page FIRST before continuing.
Medical Billing & Coding students are required to complete a 160-hour on-site externship under the supervision of an industry professional.
There are SIX steps students need to complete to satisfy externship requirements. Please see each step detailed below.
Once students secure an approved externship placement they will need to:
Download and read thoroughly, all the required externship documents provided.
Ask for clarification or any questions regarding requirements detailed in the externship documents provided.
Properly complete and attain all signatures each document requires in order to receive externship certification.
Fill out each document digitally or using a pen. All signatures required must be hand-signed.
All documents requiring a signature must be returned to the Externship Coordinator for verification and processing of certification.
The links to all required documents are here:
{Coming Soon!}
Students and supervisors are expected to use the occupational competencies document as a guide for hands-on practice of the knowledge, skills, protocols, and procedures a working employee would be expected to perform or understand on the job.
It is the student's responsibility to ask their supervisor to provide when appropriate, hands-on training or experience for each competency listed.
Students should review the occupational competencies listed and develop a schedule and plan to discuss or practice each competency during their scheduled shifts over the course of the 180 hours externship.
The Medical Billing & Coding Training Plan is required for students to use to document when a student experiences each competency and whoever provides the student their training. Although a student might have one supervisor for their externship, different medical facility employees can provide students training to meet the expectations for the competencies listed in the training plan.
Students need to log each experience with the trainer's full name, the date when the experience occurred, and the additional supervisor's initials, verifying the student was trained for each specific competency listed.
When all competencies listed on the training plan are logged and verified, students need to sign and date the training plan document and attain their supervisor's signature and date of signature.
Students need to turn in the completed, hand-signed document to the externship coordinator at the end of their externship.
The Medical Billing & Coding Training Evaluation is required for the externship supervisor to use to evaluate a student's externship performance.
Students should preview each of the evaluation criteria with their supervisor before they begin their externship. Students should keep an open dialogue regarding the evaluation expectations.
Ask your supervisor to communicate any concerns they have regarding your performance as they occur. This will give you the opportunity to adjust or improve your performance before your externship ends. Ask your supervisor throughout your externship if you can do anything to improve your performance. Be open to constructive criticism.
If you have any concerns regarding your experience during your externship, please contact your Externship Coordinator immediately. This will give us the opportunity to assist you with any issues that may arise.
Students need to attain their supervisor's signature and date of signature.
Students need to turn in the completed, hand-signed document to the externship coordinator at the end of their externship.
The Medical Billing & Coding Training Time Sheet is required for the student to log the scheduled shifts throughout the 180 hours of the externship term.
Students should discuss their weekly availability as well as the availability of hours they can schedule monthly with their supervisor prior to beginning their externship term.
Although not required, students should try to work out a schedule with their facility that allows them to complete their externship in 10 weeks. This would allow students a minimum of 15-20 hours a week and provide a steady schedule to meet the goals of the 180-hour externship.
When a schedule is agreed upon, students need to complete the externship time sheet weekly with the required signatures for their supervisor. Make sure to use the "Time Sheet Instructions" document to correctly fill in the hours worked. You may make as many copies of this document as necessary to log all of the hours and weeks you complete throughout your externship.
Once your 180-hours are completed, students need to attain their supervisor's signature and date of signature.
Students need to turn in the completed, hand-signed document to the externship coordinator at the end of their externship.
Students are responsible for completing all of the steps outlined in the externship process.
Once all hours are completed, competencies are met, all documents are filled out appropriately, and all signatures required attained; students will need to send their completed documents to lheredia@euhsd.org via email OR they can drop them off at our Escondido Crest campus in a sealed manilla envelope with their full name and program name clearly labeled on the front.
Please fill out the Post Student Externship Survey and provide us with your valuable feedback.
Once all documents are received and verified you will be eligible to request a Medical Billing & Coding Externship Certificate here: Health and Medical Certificate Request Form
Please allow 7-10 business days to process your externship certificate request.