Medical Transcriptionists

Also called: Medical Scribe, Medical Transcriptionist, Radiology Transcriptionist

Career Cluster: Health Science
What they do:
Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.
On the job, you would:
  • Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
  • Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
  • Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • computers and electronics
Health
  • medicine and dentistry
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • administrative services
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
ABILITIES

Ideas and Logic
  • order or arrange things
  • group things in different ways
Verbal
  • listen and understand what people say
  • read and understand what is written
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Dependability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Independence
  • Cooperation
  • Persistence
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Video creation and editing software
  • YouTube
Medical software
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
Word processing software
  • Boston Bar Systems Corporation Sonnet
  • Microsoft Word
EDUCATION


certificate after high school or some college
usually needed
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JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are less likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $53,890.00
Median: $37,550.00
Low: $26,370.00
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