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Is A Career In Medical Transcription
For You? By: Gray Rollins If you have an interest in the medical field
and enjoy office work, you should consider a career in medical transcription.
Demand in this field continues to grow and each year there are more job
opportunities. Medical transcription clerks quickly and accurately transcribe
medical records that are dictated by doctors and other medical professionals.
You will be working with clinic notes,
physical reports, office notes, consultation reports, operative reports,
psychiatric evaluations, laboratory results, pathology reports, and x-ray
results to name just some of the record types. The clerk receives the
information on a dictation tape which is then listened to using a Dictaphone
machine and transcribed into a word processing program. Different doctors
use different word processing software but all have medical dictionaries.
There are several that are required including medications, medical definitions,
and abbreviations. In order to do this job you must have good computer
and language skills.
You must also be well versed in medical terminology, laboratory terms, surgical
terms, procedures, and abbreviations. Medical transcription clerks must
be accurate as they are responsible for correctly transcribing patient medical
records. You can complete a Medical Transcription certification program
online. The length of programs varies depending on the level of training
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