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Become a CMT With Medical Transcription Training
By Michael Bustamante Students who aspire to a lifetime of steady
employment in the health care field should look into medical transcription
training. The employment outlook is excellent, with positions available
for medical transcriptionists in physicians' offices, transcription
service offices, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, medical libraries,
and government medical facilities. And, with proper training, some
graduates may even work from home.There are numerous trade schools,
vocational schools and colleges in the US
and Canada that offer training in medical transcribing. These courses
will often include supervised on-the-job training. A medical transcription
course may take up to two years to complete, depending on whether
you have chosen a professional certificate program or associate
degree course.The duties of the medical transcriptionist are to
transcribe recordings that have been dictated by physicians and
other health care professionals. Transcriptionists compose various
medical reports, correspondence, and other health care documentation.
Workers are expected to have good grammar
and punctuation, and to be proficient with keyboarding and word
processing. They must be familiar with medical terminology so that
they may accurately interpret medical terms and abbreviations. A
typical course will cover the subjects of pharmacology, treatment
assessments, anatomy, medical terminology, physiology, diagnostic
procedures, and legal issues relating to health care documentation.After
graduation, you may wish to obtain the voluntary designation of
Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT) by taking a take a national
certification exam from The
American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT).
Although certified medical transcriptionists (CMTs) must be re-certified
every three years,Click
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