Medical Transcriptionists

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Medical Scribe, Medical Transcriptionist, Radiology Transcriptionist, Transcriptionist

What they do:
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.
On the job, you would:
  • Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
  • Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
  • Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • administrative services

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Health

  • medicine and dentistry

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

  • order or arrange things
  • group things in different ways

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Dependability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Persistence

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Medical software

  • eClinicalWorks EHR software Hot Technology
  • Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS

Video creation and editing software

  • YouTube

Word processing software

  • Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
  • Microsoft Word Hot Technology In Demand

Education

Education: (rated 3 of 5)
certificate after high school or
some college
usually needed

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Job Outlook

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