TechSkills / Medical Coding Associates Program

Colorado / A very bad experience. I enrolled in the medical coding program,

and from almost day one found inconsistencies and concerns.

- Mentors are pitched as real-life sources for job specific experience,

expertise and knowledge. My mentor, more often than not, simply dismissed

anything that wasn't answerable with a key as not necessary to know at the

time or, suggested I check back when the mentor wasn't so busy.

- The mentor would frequently be off site for lunch for hours at a time. On

one occasion I was on-site for about four hours testing and trying to get my

next course set up, during which time a number of other students came in and

left, being told that the mentor was at lunch and would be back very soon.

When I clocked out nearly four hours later, they were still coming in and

leaving and being told the mentor was at lunch.

- A big selling point is the contact and reputation the school is supposed

to have with employers in the industries it trains students for. The first

and only contact I took from my mentor didn't seem to have any idea why

TechSkills was referring students without on-the-job experience. And they

didn't seem to know of the mentor at all, even though the mentor insisted

they'd worked closely together for some time.

Overall it was a very unfortunate experience and I would highly recommend

anyone considering the program request industry references for the

individual that would be their mentor prior to signing anything.

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