Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone here have knowledge of this subject please? From what I can see after years of searching, there is no way of learning Clinical Coding without being employed in the field. This is something I have struggled to engineering even though I have been on at least 3 appropriate interviews which were all for traineeships. I am hitting 50 this year and feel as though I've tried so hard to self teach myself the bits of information that I can access, but all the courses I look at are all USA related and I don't want to teach myself the non-NHS way of doing this profession.
I am starting to feel like I have to pay privately for this education, even though there is no guarantee I will get a post with precious little experience. I am also apprehensive of the amount of work I can see it entails, however, I am pretty sure that once I have mastered the core skills, I would really like this job. Unfortunately, it the time it takes to learn - I cannot learn quick enough I don't think. I know I will panic and run if I am put under a lot of pressure. I don't have a diagnosis but I do show traits like needing time to process things.
When I first googled clinical coding, I thought I would be great at it as it seemed to be a fairly lonesome job and that is what I want - just a little contact with people to team build and let them know I am approachable just not for a long length of time.
Oh I do go on. apologies. I'm just wishing it would be easier...
best wishes all...
Jo
Sometimes people learn about clinical coding through medical device or pharmaceutical risk management. I work in the medical device industry and although I personally don't use it, I know there are other people who use ICD codes for things like indicating device use or possible harms.
It might be worth looking at medical regulation and analysis more generally if this is the kind of thing you're interested in- I've found that it can be very autism-friendly as you need good attention to detail and it doesn't matter if you prefer to work mostly on your own. It can be a tricky field to get into without a background in biology but they do also take people on with backgrounds in other sciences, engineering, and so on. I used to have a colleague who had left school at 16 but had done regulatory/legal work for transportation so there are lots of ways to gain some useful experience.
Thank you for getting back to me, I appreciate it. Will look into private tuition when I can get the time off work I think it is probably the only way. Thank for chatting :)