Professional Competencies Workshop: HIM Self‐Assessment and Exploring
Solutions
Presented by:Desla Mancilla; Sr. Director Academic Affairs ‐ AHIMARyan Sandefer; Immediate Past Chair, Council for
Excellence in Education (CEE)
What Are Your Expected Takeaways?
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This Session is Interactive!
For the duration of this presentation, please have your cell phones available. You will be asked to use them.
Here’s How It Works!
Step 1: Competency Self‐Assessment (Professional Development Inventory)
• Domains ‐ Sphere of knowledge (enumerated items)• Subdomains ‐ Part of the larger domain and
represented by letters• Competencies by academic level
– Which HIM academic level are you currently in (do you hold an associate, bachelor’s or master’s degree in HIM)?
– Do you anticipate that changing?
Step 2: Review Each Competency Statement
Domain I. Data content, structure, and standards (information governance)Subdomain I.A Classification Systems (data standards)
Graduate Level: Construct examples of mapping of clinical vocabularies and terminologies to appropriate classification systems
Baccalaureate:Identify the functions and relationships between healthcare classification systems
Associate: Evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic and procedural coding
Step 3: Determine Level of Expertise ‐ Now and Future
Current GoalUnskilled Novice Master Unskilled Novice Master
Step 4: Conduct Goal Analysis• Compare current level and future goals • Prioritize your goals• “If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small”. – Willy Merdiansyah fillhttps://about.me/willymerdiansyah
Step 5: Break into Groups
Step 6: Explore Solutions to Meet Goals
• Determine solutions to meet your future goals
Step 7: Summarize Solutions• Report solutions developed to meet future goals
• Focus on specific skills, resources, education, training etc.
Step 8: Summary • What was important or helpful about this process?
• Do you feel like thinking this process through has been valuable and that you will be better prepared to take control of your HIM future?
• What unanswered questions do you have?
