Medical Transcriptionists
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
Also called: Medical Secretary, Medical Transcriptionist, Radiology Transcriptionist, Transcriptionist
Knowledge:
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- read and understand what is written
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.
They do well at jobs that need
- Attention to Detail
- Dependability
- Independence
- Integrity
- Cooperation
- Achievement/Effort
Technology:
- Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
- Microsoft Word
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- MedQuist DocQment Enterprise Platform
Data base user interface and query software
- Data entry software
- Database software
Education:
certificate after high school
