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Medical Transcriptionist Certificate

This program prepares students for positions as medical transcriptionists in doctors' offices or health care facilities.

Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:

  • keyboard and format all forms of business correspondence.
  • keyboard a minimum of 50 lines per hour of machine dictated medical reports.
  • apply correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling rules tomachine-dictated medical letters and reports as well as longhand,rough-draft sources, or electronic sources of business correspondence.
  • understand medical terminology and technology as it is usedin doctors' office, hospitals, other medical facilities, and relatedindustries.
  • apply procedures learned for handling communications, mail,processing internal and external communications (traditional andelectronic), telephone calls, arranging for a meeting, usingtransportation or communication services, using financial services, andutilizing the appropriate information systems in a business/medicalenvironment.
  • understand the scope of the administrative management ofrecords progressing from establishing a records management system tofiling, storing, retrieving and disposing of records in paper, image,and electronic form.
  • communicate with doctors, supervisors, and other personnel in an employment facility to provide effective workflow.
  • work individually and collaboratively to meet goals and objectives in a timely manner.
  • participate in professional associations.

Student planning on pursuing the Health Information Technologyor Medical Assistant A.A.S. after completion of the certificate programare urged to meet with an advisor when selecting courses.

First Semester
Credits
AOT 112
 Keyboarding I *
 1.00
AOT 113
 Keyboarding II *
 1.00
AOT 114
 Keyboarding III *
 1.00
ENG 105
College English I
 3.00






 6.00


Second Semester
Credits
AOT 117
 Keyboarding IV *
 1.50
AOT 118
 Keyboarding V *
 1.50
BUS 220
 Records Management 3.00
CIS 105
 Intro to Comp & Applications 3.50







9.50


Third Semester
Credits
AOT 215
 Medical Office Procedures 3.00
BUS 230
 Advanced Word Processing 3.00
MED 102
 Medical Assisting I 4.00





10.00


Fourth Semester
Credits
AOT 250
 Medical Dictation Transcriptio 3.00
Elective
 ACC, AOT, BUS, CIS, HIT, MED 3.00 - 3.50




6.00 - 6.50


*Placement testing is available for AOT 112, AOT 113, AOT 114, AOT 115, AOT 116, AOT 117, AOT 118 (Keyboarding/Typing sequence).

AOT 115: Typing I may be subsitituted for AOT 112, 113, & 114.

AOT 118: Typing II may be substituted for AOT 117 & 118.

Recommended electives: HIT 110, 120, 250, 255, or MED 216.

Some courses may be used toward the Medical Assistant or Health Information Technology A.A.S. degree.