Medical Transcriptionist Overview
How good are you at decoding accents? Are you a master of the computer keyboard? Do you have a sharp ear? Yes? Well, you have just qualified yourself for a hot new profession. One that offers great money without leaving the comfort of your home. That's Medical Transcription.
Medical Transcription is all about word-for-word translation. It's a process by which orally dictated medial prescription, advice, results of diagnostic tests made by doctors and health professionals are converted into accurate and readable text form.
It works like this. A doctor in a hospital checks, diagnoses and simultaneously treats as many as 60-100 patients a day. But keeping track of all patients' history and physical reports, clinic notes, office notes, operative reports, consultation notes, discharge summaries, letters, psychiatric reviews, laboratory reports, x-ray reports, pathology reports, etc. is next to impossible. That's where Medical Transcription (MT) comes in. As a Medical Transcriptionist, you'll decipher the doctor's discussions, which is usually recorded on a Dictaphone (by the doctor).
Apart from computer-related word-processing systems you also need good listening, language skills and knowledge of medical terminology.If you are planning a career in MT you need a very good ear to be able to distinguish between similar sounding and vastly-different-in-meaning words such as "peri-para", "inter-intra", "arterioles-arterials", "vesicals-vesicles" etc. Another example is tonsils (something that is normal) and tonsillitis (affliction of inflammation of the tonsils).
As a Medical Transcriptionist, you have to note down the data, which is crosschecked by a supervisor (an experienced Medical transcriptionist) and then edited by an Editor.
The editors have about 4-5 years of experience in medical transcription process. The overall work is again controlled by a Quality Assurance Manager who ensures that the work is up to the mark.
As a Medical Transcriptionist you'll work in shifts. But there is scope for even housewives to work part-time from home. As you gain experience you can specialise in a particular field of medical transcription like clinic transcription, hospital transcription, etc. If you need more information on this profile please feel free to contact us Now.
