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Laboure College

How this student rated the school
Educational QualityC Faculty AccessibilityC+
Useful SchoolworkB Excess CompetitionC
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Individual ValueB University Resource UseB
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She rated most things higher than other students did.
Date: Feb 26 2014
Major: School of Information (This Major's Salary over time)

Do not major in HIT program, you will not find a job that will pay you enough money to repay your high loans. I graduate with HIT tow years ago, and I have not yet been able to find a job that pays a decent amount of money per hour. Most of the hospital medical record jobs are factory type of work, where you are required to process large volume of medical records per day for minimum wages. You will struggle to find any internship, as most of the healthcare facilities in the Boston area doesn't care about assisting students with Internship due to understaffing issues. This is a good degree for established medical record clerks (already working in the industry). I would not recommend this career for anybody. You will regret going into it, when you can't find a job that will pay you a decent salary to repay your loans.

If do decide to go into this field, be extremely carefully when selecting jobs, and where you decided to go. I would only go into coding, since it is the only job in medical records that require a certificate. You really don't need a degree to work in medical records, most of the clerks working in the HIM department are high school grads.

Here some advise if you decide to go into HIM:

Only two school offer this degree, most Universities/colleges have dropped this major due to high student defaulting issues.

It will be difficult to find any internship, as most HIM depts. are too busy to help future HIM students with internship.

Be careful about selecting jobs, once you accept one you cannot leave it for whatever reasons (due to industry mangers talk to each other), it will be impossible to find another job at an acute care hospital if you hate the job and leave.

Do not say anything or bring attention to yourself, stay quiet, do not complain about anything, just yes to everything.

Do not give management/Supervisors or co-worker a reason not to like you, word travel fast in this industry.

Read online boards about what past students and HIM workers are saying about the industry.

Stay away from the third party vendors that process medical records for hospitals, you need to be an employee of the hospital to get good benefits (tuition, respectability, better treatment), these companies only make money based on how many medical records that they can process, so they will push and expect you to make no mistakes.

Better career opportunities and pay in the following field: Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacist.

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