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The Miscellaneous Yakkings of a Medical Transcriptionist

Medical transcription training basically involves equipping you with improving your listening skills, improving language, throwing some light into human anatomy and physiology, disease process, medical terminologies, drugs for various diseases, normal lab values, medical report style and formatting, confidentiality, legalities, familiarity with medical records and ethics, learning typing and improving to speedy typing, exposure to [...]

Anybody who is proficient in English with good listening comprehension skills can become a medical transcriptionist, no matter in which discipline you have graduated. Proficiency includes the use of correct words, spelling, punctuation as well as syntax (correct sentence formation). If you have concentrated in improving your vocabulary of English during your school learning days, [...]

In the medical transcription workflow process, primarily, the doctors on their part dictate their messages into digital voice recorders, personal digital assistants (PDAs), tapes, Dictaphones etc., and transfer the recorded voice messages to a server to be accessed by the medical transcriptionist. On the part of a medical transcriptionist, the medical transcription process involves retrieving [...]

Explaining in simple words, medical transcription is just “typing what the doctor/nurse says” and a medical transcriptionist is a secretary or an assistant helping out doctors in preparing patient reports.  Basically it is a typist’s job. The treatment given for a patient at each point needs to be recorded for various processes including insurance claims [...]