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Cancer Registry HIM Degree Track: Course Descriptions
After the four pre-requisite courses have been completed, the student
may then take the following four courses of the Cancer Registry Track.
The descriptions and costs are below:
Registry Principles
& Practice (2 SC hrs)
Introduction to basic registry operations which include hospital
registries and central registries, basics of staging and classification
systems used in cancer registries, overview of the survey process,
procedures, requirements and standards of a registry and accreditation.
Topics are: statistics, reporting, data sets, data editing, quality
control, and casefinding principles. Additional topics include cancer
committees, cancer conferences, agency reporting as well as legal issues
and confidentiality. Cost: $200 plus the textbook.
Epidemiology (3 SC
hrs)
Instruction in cancer disease processes, physiologic changes, and
functions in the human body resulting from cancer. Includes study of
laboratory, pathology, diagnostic, radiologic, and surgical procedures
as well as tumor markers and other treatment modalities. Surveillance,
cancer control, and patient care evaluation are introduced. Cost: $300
plus the textbook.
Staging and
Classification (3 SC hrs)
An
in-depth study and practice on oncology coding and staging systems.
Course covers International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (ICD-O),
Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Summary Staging, and
American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging nomenclatures and
classification systems. Abstracting principles and coding systems are
emphasized using workbooks and actual patient records. Cancer staging
software applications are introduced. Cost: $300 (manuals are loaned
to the student, pending number of students enrolled)
Registry Professional Practice (2 SC hrs)
Directed practice provides hands-on experience in all aspects of
registry operations. Supervised practiced in a hospital registry
includes skill and understanding in registry management, data collection
and abstracting, coding and staging, follow up, data utilization and
reporting, computer applications, and quality assessment. The clinical
rotations include 11 hours of directed practice each week during the
semester (15 weeks). Cost: $200 |
