Courses BCI offers to students
Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca By: Laura Switkowski, LVT Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca, also known as KCS, is an ophthalmic disease in pets that causes dry eye. This disease is more common in dogs than in cats, and also can be more common in certain breeds of dogs such as Cocker Spaniels, Shih Tzus, and West Highland Terriers. The cause…
GENERAL MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION VS. SPECIALTY MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION After graduating from the Blackstone Career Institute Medical Transcription Program, students will obviously be looking for a job—part-time or full-time—and maybe more than one job. The easiest way to get into this career field is as a specialty medical transcriptionist/healthcare documentation specialist (MT/HDS). This means working in one…
How is Medical Scribing Different from Medical Transcription? by Pat Ireland, CMT, AHDI-F According to Merriam-Webster, scribes can be defined in the following ways: As a member of a learned class in ancient Israel through New Testament times, studying the Scriptures and serving as copyists, editors, teachers, and jurists As an official or public secretary…
Is Infection Control A Concern For The Dental Office Desk? You Bet It Is!! By Colette Jesikiewicz CDPMA, FADAA At this time, more so than ever because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the spreading of diseases is on everyone’s mind. In the dental office, infection control may have been thought to be limited to the clinical…
How to Become a Home Health Aide Learn how to become a home health aide (HHA) and concentrate on assisting the elderly, the disabled, and other patients recovering from illness and injuries by maintaining their quality of life and making them feel safe in their home. This career field has become one of the fastest…
Most Critical Skill Healthcare Workers Need to Improve Developing interpersonal skills is perhaps one the most important qualifications for healthcare workers. Interpersonal skills, such as showing empathy or listening and taking time to explain recommendations typically influences the likelihood for a patient to follow through on care plans and even has the potential to…
Why Start a Medical Billing and Coding Career? Blackstone Career Institute is committed to providing quality, relevant and affordable distance education programs that focus on the knowledge and skills needed for entry level careers, professional development or personal goals. Whether you are looking to continue your career, change your career path, or begin your career,…
3 Ways Continuing Education is Reshaping Job Industries with Online Certificate Programs Continuing Education has always been crucial to career fields that are constantly evolving, such as healthcare, culinary, education and law to name a few. Some professions experience a steeper growth curve than others but in any profession from delivery services, to surgeons,…
What Makes Allied Health a Good Career Choice? Blackstone Career Institute offers in-demand, popular and relevant career training programs. Most known for the Paralegal career training course, there are eight additional career courses in the Allied Health field that BCI also offers online. The Allied Health field is expected to add 2.4 million new jobs…
The Top 3 Veterinary Assistant Tools Needed on the Job There are certain tools every Veterinary Assistant needs on the job, tools that are crucial and helpful to not just the Veterinary Assistant, but the Technician and Veterinarian as well. To allow veterinary procedures to flow smoothly and safely, it is important that items are…
