CIM 220 - Abstracting Principles & Practices II

Credit(s) 2.00
Lab Hours: 4.00
This course further applies the principles of cancer registry abstracting. Students will develop skills in identification and selection of appropriate clinical information from medical records in a manner consistent with cancer registry regulatory core data item requirements; recording, coding and staging site-specific cancer information; and using accuracy, timeliness and completeness of data.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of C- in CIM 200, CIM 205, CIM 210, and CIM 240.
Corequisite(s): CIM 215