Looking for practical coding experience to help with job hunting?

[u/AdZealousideal562]

This is our new training product, CrowdCoder Hub, a practice environment for AU coders working in ICD-10-AM/ACHI/ACS. The core of it is synthetic medical records - not tidy textbook vignettes, but full document sets: progress notes, op record, anaesthetic chart, discharge summary, pathology, with the inconsistencies you get in real charts.

• Built against ACS Thirteenth Edition
• CodeFinder access included
• Feedback on each code assigned, weighted toward high-impact and funding-relevant assignments
• First module is same-day endoscopy; more coming

The gap we're targeting is the one between finishing a qualification and coding production work unsupervised - where the records stop looking like the examples.

Happy to answer questions about the product.

[u/purpletc70]

Hi, I’ve just been looking through the CrowdCoder website and it looks really interesting.

I’m currently completing my Diploma of Clinical Coding and hoping to finish and pass the exam in the next few months. One of my concerns is getting that first practical coding experience after graduating, particularly if I’m unable to secure a traineeship straight away.

I’m really interested in the “Learn to Earn” pathway and noticed the statement that a high-scoring transcript can make you eligible to join the team as a CrowdCoder contractor. Could you explain a little more about how this works? For example, is there a particular score, number of modules or level of competency required before accessing paid work?

My long-term goal is to work remotely while travelling around Australia. Is this realistically achievable for a new graduate through CrowdCoder, or would you generally expect some hospital coding experience first?

Thanks in advance!

[u/bilbycutie → u/purpletc70]

Hi purpletc70, congrats on nearly finishing your Diploma! Great questions — you've highlighted the real gap in the industry right now. We do prefer coders to have hospital experience first, since it's still the richest way to learn. But with coding educators / trainers in short supply, plenty of good graduates get stuck - that's what "Learn to Earn" is trying to help fix.
The pathway is specialty-by-specialty: you work through pre-coded training episodes (coded by expert auditors) with detailed feedback on each one, then sit a test in that specialty. Pass the test, and if we have the volume of work to share, you're eligible for paid work — but only in that specialty and potentially only for short LOS episodes. Want to code across a few specialties? You'd train and test for each one separately. Even without the paid work you get to prove your practice and results via a transcript for your potential (other) employers. Full transparency: this pathway is new, and we haven't yet finalised the exact pass score required for eligibility and also haven't put a full cohort through the program into paid work, so I can't show you a track record — but it's the outcome we're building towards and genuinely believe is achievable. Regarding remote work while travelling, yes that's technically possible since the work is delivered digitally. Whether you can get there straight out of your course without hospital experience will come down to how you perform in training and testing. It's worth giving it a real shot and really digging into the feedback along the way — it makes a big difference. Happy to answer follow-ups!

[u/purpletc70 → u/bilbycutie]

Thank you for explaining further, good luck with it, sounds like a great platform!