Free Virtual Medical Administrative Support training scholarship in Nigeria

What you will learn

A ten-week specialist track for remote medical administrative work: patient messages and scheduling, insurance eligibility, prior authorization packets, referrals and records requests, claim status calls and payment routing. Every lesson follows the clinic's job aid, every patient is fictional, and the privacy discipline is graded with zero tolerance.

• Two-identifier verification and third-party authority
• Minimum necessary and approved channels
• Patient inbox triage: urgency, scope, tone
• Scheduling from a provider template
• Eligibility verification on a payer call
• Prior authorization packets and tracking
• Referrals and records requests with authorisation checks
• NorthChart with role-based access and audit trail
• Claim status calls and the biller handoff
• Privacy decisions and incident escalation

Eight weeks at a glance

1. Week 1: Academy Foundation and the healthcare primer. Remote work with a US client, written and spoken communication, US time zones from Nigeria, workstation readiness; then the mandatory primer: the words of US healthcare, two identifiers before any disclosure, minimum necessary, approved channels.
2. Week 2: Remote medical front desk and patient communication. Role and boundaries, two-identifier verification, third-party authority as a separate gate, reading a patient inbox for urgency, scope and tone.
3. Week 3: Scheduling and conflict resolution. What the remote scheduler controls, reading a provider template without interpreting clinical rules, verification before any change, rebuilding a provider's day after a sick call.
4. Week 4: Insurance eligibility and benefits verification. What eligibility verification is and is not, the eight fields on the form, minimum necessary on a payer call, reading payer responses.
5. Week 5: Prior authorization administration. What prior authorization is and is not, reading the payer's requirements without guessing, the clinic-approved document set, assembling a clean packet, the five-item tracker.
6. Week 6: Referrals, records requests and NorthChart. Referral basics, authorisation checks before any release, NorthChart navigation with role-based access and the audit trail, closing the loop with the specialist.
7. Week 7: Privacy decisions, escalation, claims and balances. Privacy decisions at the remote front desk, what to escalate and how fast, the misdirected message; then claim status calls, the handoff note to the biller, and the balance conversations you may and may not have.
8. Week 8: Integrated fictional clinic work simulation. The Northgate workday: scope, sequence and the seven privacy gates; routing clinical messages and the angry caller; scheduling conflicts; the full day, end to end.
9. Week 9: Practicum, part one. Three timed shifts on NorthChart: a Monday morning, records, payers and a fax gone wrong, the afternoon queue; then a live role play with a peer.
10. Week 10: Practicum, part two. A downtime drill, a full morning, the capstone shift, a live role play with a tutor and the final assessment. Passing needs zero critical errors on the seven privacy gates.

Who this track suits

• You can follow a rule exactly, every time, even when a caller is upset and pushing you to make an exception.
• You are calm on the phone, clear in writing, and comfortable telling someone that a question is for the nurse or the doctor, not for you.
• You can keep what you see in a patient record to yourself, completely, and treat every record as sensitive by default.
• You want a specialist remote skill with its own vocabulary, systems and rules, and you are willing to learn them properly over ten weeks.

How to apply

1. 1
   Apply

   Fill in the form. It takes about two minutes. One application per email address, for one pool.

2. 2
   Get accepted

   Acceptance emails go out in batches. Watch your inbox.

3. 3
   Start learning

   Open your first course or your track the same day. You have six weeks to finish your first course or Week 1.

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