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POFM 1302 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at BHC, CVC, EFC, ECC, NLC, RLC.

Medical Software Applications
This is a WECM Course Number.
Course Description: Medical software applications for the management and operation of health care information systems. (2 Lec., 3 Lab.)

POFM 1309 (3 Credit Hours)
Offered at BHC, EFC, ECC, NLC, RLC.

Medical Office Procedures
This is a WECM Course Number.
Prerequisite: Basic keyboarding skills.
Course Description: Introduction to basic medical office skills including telephone techniques, filing and indexing, mail handling, appointment scheduling, travel arrangements, correspondence, and business transactions. Emphasis on human relations and customer service skills. (2 Lec., 2 Lab.)


Academic Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for transfer among community colleges and state public four year colleges and universities as freshman and sophomore general education courses.

WECM Courses
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as workforce education (technical) courses offered for credit and CEUs (Continuing Education Units). While these courses are designed to transfer among state community colleges, they are not designed to automatically transfer to public four year colleges and universities.