Medical Transcription

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Uploaded on Jan 11 2011

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Program Overview
Start a new career as a medical transcriptionist with this online training program. You'll gain the skills to transcribe recordings
and create medical reports. Your transcription equipment and all materials are included.

A medical transcriptionist listens to dictated recordings made by physicians and other health care professionals and transcribes the recordings, creating medical reports that eventually become part of patients' permanent files. In the Medical Transcriptionist Online Training Program, you'll gain the ability to transcribe medical reports and learn the skills you need to obtain an entry-level position as a medical transcriptionist.

To become a medical transcriptionist, you must possess excellent editing and proofreading skills. You should have a basic understanding of a wordprocessing program and be proficient at keyboarding, creating documents, e-mailing, and printing. Students should also have a working knowledge of medical terminology prior to beginning this program.

Upon successful completion of this program, you'll be able to:

• Describe the importance of the confidential nature of medical reports
• Transcribe medical reports using correct report format and correct capitalization, punctuation, abbreviations, symbols, and metric measurements
• Correctly spell the English and medical terms in addition to the abbreviations, either by memory or by using a dictionary or reference book
• Identify the knowledge, skills, abilities, and responsibilities required of medical transcriptionists