This curriculum guide is an outline of the content for basic workshop training sessions of hospital medical record personnel. Following a two-page topical outline of five content areas, there is a detailed presentation of this content as follows: (1) the medical record and its contribution to patient care (Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospitals [JCAH] standards in medical record services, and the content, value and confidentiality of the medical record); (2) record filing systems (numbering methods, filing systems, and microfilming); (3) indexing (purpose and types of indexes); (4) introduction to the "International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States" (ICDA-8) and "Standard Nomenclature of Diseases and Operations" (SNDO) (principles for using ICDA and SNDO, general instructions in coding, and introduction to other terminology and coding systems); and (5) discharge service analysis (data tabulation procedure, disease classifications with definitions, and programmed service analysis worksheets of fifteen brief cases to be assigned according to hospital clinical services). A list of fifteen recommended reference books and periodicals is appended. (EM)