Medical Transcription

American School of Business

  • A program that prepares individuals to execute verbatim medical conference minutes, medical reports, and medical orders. Includes instruction in dictation and simultaneous recording, analysis of notes and visual evidence, medical terminology, data processing applications and skills, formal medical report and correspondence formats, professional standards, and applicable law and regulations. Find Colleges Offering Medical Transcription Degree.
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    • Job Description
      Use transcribing machines with headset and foot pedal to listen to recordings by physicians and other healthcare professionals dictating a variety of medical reports, such as emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form to the dictator for review and signature, or correction.
      Salary and Wages

      Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

      • Total Employment: 190
      • Average Annual Salary: $30,720
      • Average Hourly Rate: $14.77
      Projections
      • Total Employment (2006): 98,454
      • Total Employment Projected (2016): 111,747
      • Percent Job Growth: 13.50%
      Important Abilities
      • Oral Comprehension
      • Written Comprehension
      • Oral Expression
      • Written Expression
      • Finger Dexterity
      • Near Vision
      • Speech Recognition
    Awarded Degrees and Program Completion Details
    Medical Transcription
     Total
    Overall
    All Students7
     
    By Gender
    Male-
    Female7
     
    By Race
    Non-Resident Alien-
    American Indian-
    Black2
    Asian-
    Hispanic1
    White4
    Unknown-
     
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