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Medical Transcription

Kalamazoo Valley Community College (KVCC)

  • 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.
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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

      Kalamazoo-Portage, MI

      • Total Employment: 100
      • Average Annual Salary: $29,860
      • Average Hourly Rate: $14.36
      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
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