This curriculum guide consists of guidelines and materials for use in developing a competency-based medical record education course for students in a medical record administration or technician program. Covered in the individual chapters are curriculum design; the role and responsibilities of medical record practitioners; the affective domain and identified affective characteristics of medical record administrators and technicians; educational objectives; student learning principles, preferences, and strategies; teaching strategies; and student evaluations. Along with pertinent text and guidelines, each chapter includes one or more of the following: glossaries, annotated bibliographies, student learning modules, evaluation instruments, and explanations of various teaching techniques. Appended to the guide are a frame of reference for medical record education; a correlation of major and specific responsibility statements with curriculum content; and American Medical Record Association standards and ethics. (MN)