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ADMISSION ENQUIRY- 2025
ADMISSION ENQUIRY - 2025
Certificate Program in Medical Transcriptionist
Program Outcome
On successful completion of the course, the student will be competent to:
- Accurately transcribe original medical dictation;
- Use correct English by sourcing appropriate resources in order to apply the rules of proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure;
- Operate dictation, transcription, and word processing equipment;
- Use medical terminology including prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, roots, plurals, abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, homonyms, foreign words/phrases, and colloquialisms
- Use the correct spelling of medical terminology related to human anatomy, physiology, laboratory tests, drugs, clinical medicine, surgery, pathology, and radiology;
- apply knowledge of human anatomy and physiology including body systems, structures and functions;
- use knowledge of clinical medicine including diagnosis and treatment of common medical conditions to ensure accurate transcription of records;
- apply knowledge of common laboratory tests including diagnostic indications, administration, values and significance of results in preparing records
- use knowledge of drugs, their classifications, indications, actions, dosages and administration in preparing records;
- apply knowledge of surgery including diagnosis, techniques, findings, equipment, instruments, and accessories in preparing records;
- illustrate an ability to use medical references and other resources for reference purposes;
- adapt to progressively more demanding medical transcription production and accuracy standards;
- recognize, evaluate, and interpret inconsistencies, discrepancies, and inaccuracies in medical dictation;
- appropriately edit, revise and clarify transcripts without altering meaning, or changing dictators' style;
- accurately proofread and correct transcribed medical reports;
- Illustrate an understanding of the ethical and legal aspects of medical transcription practice, particularly confidentiality of medical records, release of information, patients' rights, etc