HIM at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate HIM coursework.

• BY 116Introductory Human Physiologyopens 7 courses (1.3 directly)
• HIM 405Clinical Information I.opens 4 courses (2 directly)
• HIM 440ICD-10-CM Codingopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• HIM 417Pathology for Codersopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIM 418Documentation Standards for Health Dataopens 1 course (1 directly)
• HIM 460Coding/Classification Systemsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate HIM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 17 HIM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 8 more HIM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in HIM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at HIM 455

  1. BY 115Human Anatomy
  2. BY 116Introductory Human Physiology
  3. HIM 405Clinical Information I.
  4. HIM 440ICD-10-CM Coding
  5. HIM 455Reimbursement and Regulatory Requirements for HIM.

• 4 courses deep, ending at HIM 441

  1. BY 115Human Anatomy
  2. BY 116Introductory Human Physiology
  3. HIM 417Pathology for Coders

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIM 416

  1. HIM 415Introduction to Health Information Management
  2. HIM 416Health Data Concepts

• 2 courses deep, ending at HIM 418

  1. HCM 325Healthcare Law and Ethics
  2. HIM 418Documentation Standards for Health Data

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for HIM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under HIM yet.

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Department events

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