Medical Transcription on Squidoo

I have now started a Squidoo lens on medical transcription. My Squidoo has a great link to Cafe Press which has some really neat medical transcription items. I didn't even know you could get MT things like that. I am getting a T-shirt and a plaque for my office. It is all teddybears and they will lighten my working day when trying to understand some difficult doctors and I can look up and see my teddybear medical transcription plaque. Sometimes it takes a little levity to get through some of my transcriptions.

I have been pretty lucky in the docs that I transcribe for most. No ESL's (English as a second language) and they all dictate pretty well. I find the hardest things to transcribe are when they are talking non-medical and I can't look it up. With just ordinary conversation they seem to fly over it and it is hard to understand. That is when I leave the most blanks.

When someone asks me if I am worried about my docs going to something like Dragon Naturally Speaking and taking away my job, I just tell them that my doctors are way too busy to try to train it. If it did happen I would still be working for them transcribing what the computer didn't get right. I just don't see this as taking away medical transcription jobs for a long time. Even if it does, they will still need MTs to edit.

Medical Transcription Medical Reports and Specialties

As a medical transcriptionist you will be typing dictated reports from doctors on a variety of different systems and specialties. I have listed some of these below:

Cardiovascular System
Dermatology and Allergy
Gastroenterology
Immunology
Internal Medicine
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Otorhinolaryngology
Pediatrics
Plastic Surgery
Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurosurgery
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Respiratory System
Urology

Some of the general terms you will be using are:

Anatomy
General Medical Terms
General Surgical Terms
Drugs and Chemistry
Laboratory Terminology.

Abbreviations and symbols are used a lot in medicine so you will need to know them.

Soundalikes are also rampant in medical terminology. You have to be very careful with these.

There are many things you need to learn in order to become a medical transcriptionist. Taking a medical transcription course is necessary in order to transcribe doctor's reports accurately. The reports you type will be going into a patient's chart so they must be correct.

I had absolutely no experience in the medical profession when I started but now typing long medical terms just comes naturally. It is like anything else, once you know it, you know it.

Marilyn Roberts
Medical Transcriptionist