Medical Transcription Certificate

Significant Points

• Job opportunities will be good.
• Employers prefer medical transcriptionists who have completed a postsecondary training program.
• Many medical transcriptionists telecommute from home-based offices.
• About 41 percent worked in hospitals, and another 29 percent worked in offices of physicians.

Nature of the Work

Medical transcriptionists listen to dictated recordings made by physicians and other health care professionals and transcribe them into medical reports, correspondence, and other administrative material. They generally listen to recordings on a headset, using a foot pedal to pause the recording when necessary, and key the text into a personal computer or word processor, editing as necessary for grammar and clarity. The documents they produce include discharge summaries, medical history and physical examination reports, operative reports, consultation reports, autopsy reports, diagnostic imaging studies, progress notes, and referral letters. Medical transcriptionists return transcribed documents to the physicians or other health care professionals who dictated them for review and signature or correction. These documents eventually become part of patients’ permanent files.

Medical Records Certificate Courses

Click on this link for the Yavapai College Catalog - Click on Degrees and Certificates - Click on Medical Records Certificate in the Alphabetical Index.