Putting in Apprentice time

[Kimberly121]

I was wondering how much "time" needs to be put in to meet apprentice requirements and remove the CPC-A status. When they say you need one or two years on the job experience, is that full time, or can it be a few hours a week/month? I'm not sure how it works and if there's a minimal amount of hours that need to be documented by the employer. I'm really having a hard time finding anyone willing to take on a "trainee" - it seems everyone wants highly qualified and experienced workers that won't have time to train newly certified coders. Any suggestions?

 

[Alicia Scott]

I called the AAPC just now to clarify this for us. What they are looking at is not clock hours. They are looking at time as in a month. In that month if you worked 30 hours or 80 doesn't matter to them. They want you to have real world experience. If you take a college course and get 80 clock hours, not credit hours, then that is a year to them. That is why the college I taught at allowed the students to take a year off of their "A". The same goes with CCO. If you take our PBC course it is = to a yr off of your "A".

So, don't think of it in hours but rather days. If you volunteer for a month that is a month off of 12 months.

 

[Carolyn Heath]

Suppose you work 5 days doing coding, will that count as a month?

 

[Alicia Scott]

You get a month if you work a month it doesn't matter how long or many days you work as long as the company states the time you started and finished.

 

[Carolyn Heath]

Thanks, Alicia!