medical transcription

TRANSCRIPTION: Transcription means changing of one version (voice dictation) to another (text format). Medical Transcription means, transcribing the patient's health records, dictated by the consulting Doctor, into text format.Physician dictates the entries made in the health record. This dictation is sent to a transcriptionist. This medical transcriptionist, specially trained for transcribing health records, by hearing the voice dictation converts into text format according to the client’s preference. To execute this transcription work the person needs training, as he/she is not familiar with this medical field.

HOW TO TRAIN THE STUDENTS FOR MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION:
First, let us question ourselves what type of work that we do. The work is nothing but transcribing the audio dictation of patient's health records into text format. It seems to be very simple but difficult to execute. The reasons are many and among them we discuss following two important problems.

1.) The dictation of the patient's health record is related to medical field. This medical field is new and unknown to every non-medical student.
2.) Doctors dictate these heath records. So, a new problem arises when the student exposed to the voices of different doctors. These doctors are multinational origin with different accent in pronouncing the English vocabulary. The main hurdle for MTs (whose mother tongue is not English) is to understand the slang and accent of these multinational doctors.
Medical Specialties:
Students are unfamiliar and new to the contents and variety of medical dictations. The dictations are from various medical specialties, like Cardiology, Dermatology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Urology & Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Otorhinolaryngology (E.N.T), Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Endocrinology, Radiology, Orthopedics, Hematology, Oncology, Immunology reports etc.

All these specialties are taught to students about their basic anatomy and physiology.