MRE 0030 Medical Transcription I

Prerequisite: must keyboard at rate of 45 wpm and satisfactory score on placement test. Corequisite: HCP 0605. This course is designed to introduce students to transcription of physician dictated medical documents, healthcare records, and other types of medical dictation. Students will transcribe basic medical dictation, incorporating English usage and machine transcription skills, medical terminology, knowledge, keyboarding skills, and proofreading and editing skills, and will meet progressively demanding accuracy and productivity standards. Students will transcribe "real" dictation from a variety of medical specialties on computers using WordPerfect.

 

MRE 0031 Medical Transcription II

Prerequisite: MRE 0030. This course is designed to expand students' transcribing abilities. Students transcribe more difficult actual medical dictation, requiring greater knowledge of fundamentals taught in Medical Transcription I, continuing to advance skills in all areas of competency, while meeting progressively demanding accuracy and productivity standards. Students are expected to utilize all available reference materials.

 

MRE 0034 Medical Transcription III

Prerequisites: HCP 0605, MRE 0030 and MRE 0031. This course provides on-the-job experience for medical transcription students. Under the supervision of experienced transcriptionists, students work on site at local area hospitals, clinics, contract agencies, doctors' offices and the like, doing "live" dictation. The course will be supplemented with class time to polish students' skills further. At this point they should feel confident enough to apply for the AAMT certification test and pass Part I.