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Medical Transcriptionist -- A Health Care
Job to boost instant Career!
Is Medical Transcription the Right Career Choice For You? By Stephanie
Foster Medical transcription is a growing industry and a popular
work at home option. But it's decidedly not for everyone.
The job itself sounds simple. The doctor dictates what happened
during the patient visit, procedure or whatever else he or she
needs entered into the medical record. The transcriptionist listens
and types it up.Simple right? Don't you wish it were true!If it
were that simple there wouldn't be such a need for high quality
medical transcription training. Companies would be able to take
people in and train them on the job.The demand for skilled medical
transcriptionists is due to the demands of the job. You really
have to know what you're doing.
These
are medical records you're dealing with. Mistakes can deeply impact
the patient's life. It's not suited to everyone.For basic transcription
you simply need the ability to take what you hear and type it
out as fast as possible. I always called this hooking my fingers
to my ears, which is an interesting mental picture and an impossible
typing position... at least if any accuracy is required and you
take that literally.But there's so much more to the job.You need
to understand the terminology.
That's why medical transcription courses spend so much time on
terminology. It's so that you're ready to deal not only with the
terminology you know well and hear from the doctors every day.
It's so that when they throw a new term at you, you know how to
find out what it means and how to spell it.If you can't figure
out from the context what the word means, you can't be sure of
spelling it correctly. A lot of very different medical terms sound
very similar. If you can't figure out Click
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