I am currently a medical assistant, discovered in my first year that this is not what I want to do for the rest of my life and want to go into coding in the next year or so. Any advice?

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if you work for a company that has a coding department, network with them, maybe ask hr or a manager if you can do a shadow work for them just so you can have a feel of medical coding and gain experience from there. Perhaps if they like your performance, you can get absorb quickly and u will be ask to get certified. but if u plan to go to school and take the certification, there’s no guarantee for medical coding jobs. i’ve been a certified coding specialist and i’m still on the lookout for jobs for about 5 mos now.

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