Continuing Education Builds a Stronger Resume - It's More Than Just Fluff  

Category: Practice Management

Over the years, many coders and even some supervisors have asked me whether continuing education builds a stronger resume, or just adds a bunch of letters behind your name. I cannot understand why continuing your education by earning credentials is a bad thing. No one tells someone with a bachelor's degree not to obtain their masters degree or asks a physician why it is necessary to focus on a specialty. Why should it be assumed that just because you have a core coding credential you would not want to continue your education by earning additional credentials?
My answer to them is that I wouldn't be where I am without those additional credentials and of course, the continuing education it takes to earn and maintain them. To prove my point I explain to them that I obtained a position with the Abdominal Transplant Section in the General Surgery Department at Washington University Me...