Medical Transcription + Medical Terminology

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Program Overview
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 Transcription
+ Medical Terminology 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. You'll also get a 60-hour Medical Terminology Online Training Program!

Included in the Medical Transcription program are 10 inpatient case studies, 10 inpatient reports that can be used as tests or as extra assignments, 25 outpatient reports, and 10 outpatient reports that can be used as tests or as extra assignments. Each of these reports has been taken from hospital medical records. The reports include history and physical examinations, radiology reports, operative procedures, pathology reports, consultations, discharge summaries, a death summary, an autopsy report,
and correspondence.

To become a medical transcriptionist, you must possess excellent editing and proofreading skills. You should have a basic understanding of a word-processing program and be proficient at keyboarding, creating documents, emailing, and printing.

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

• Display a working knowledge of medical terminology
• Describe the importance of the confidential nature of medical reports
• Transcribe medical reports using appropriate 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