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If you love the medical field you do not have to go to school for years to become a doctor or a nurse. Instead, there are many jobs that are behind the scenes that you can do. These jobs are very helpful for doctors and you are helping with the process of caring for patients. One job you should consider is becoming a medical transcriptionist. Keep reading to learn more about this so you can decide if this career would be right for you.
What a Medical Transcriptionist Is
When a doctor examines their patients in their doctor's office, clinic, or a hospital, they must have important information, such as the patient's medical history, physical exam, diagnosis, and laboratory tests, in the patient's file. Instead of writing all this information on their own, many doctors choose to hire a medical transcriptionist to do this job for them.
What You Need to Do
If you would like to become a medical transcriptionist, you must get the proper training from an accredited school. These courses generally take a few months to over a year. You may also be able to find training for medical transcription online but make sure the school is accredited before you pay them any money.
Once you receive your training, you can then contact doctors in your area. There are also online companies that offer medical transcription services. You should consider applying with one of these companies if you would like to work at home.
What a Medical Transcriptionist Does
You will quickly find the dictation you receive from a doctor is not easy to understand and you will have to determine where there are line breaks, where you need to start a new paragraph, and where to place every punctuation mark. You will also need to know the spelling of many medical terminology terms.
Doctors may speak quickly so it will be hard to understand them at times. They may start talking to a colleague in the room without pausing the dictation so you will have to know what to include in your notes and what to keep out.
What a Medical Transcriptionist Needs
If you want to work at home, you will need a variety of equipment, including:
Doctors may dictate reports using digital voice recording, their own microphone dictation systems, or MP3 download.
Working as a medical transcriptionist can be an exciting and interesting career and it can be very lucrative once you gain experience.
Share6 June 2017
