MTatHome Syllabus for our Medical Transcription Training Course

Requirements for the MTatHome Medical Transcription Course: 

• AHDI Book of Style third edition
• AHDI Book of Style Student Workbook
•  A Medical Dictionary (Stedman’s or Dorland's) CD is preferred; however it can be book format.
• Digital USB Foot Pedal
• We recommend getting Computer headphones.
• You will need to have MS Word installed on your computer, 2007 or 2010 Version.
• You will need to have a Windows based computer. XP, Vista or Windows 7. 
• You must speak English to take our course. Our course is in the English language only at this time.
• You do NOT have to live in the USA to take our course.
• You do not have to have Internet access to study our course however you will need to log in to the student area and participate in any of the student chats you want to attend or to access any of our tutorials and course other information in the student area. Once you start working as an MT you will need Internet access. It can be dial-up however a lot of doctors do prefer DSL or broadband because it does not take as long to upload or download the work files.

MT Class Length:

Our Medical Transcription Class/Course is self-paced.  The average length of time from start to finish is about 6 months.  This is just an average time frame. Those that have prior medical knowledge or training such as an RN might be able to finish the course a little sooner.  If you work a full time job while taking our course it might take you a little longer to finish the class depending on how much time you can devote to studying.

460 Hours of study for this MTatHome Medical Transcription Course.  Recommended study time is 4 to 5 hours a day.  However, we do realize that not everyone can put in this much time each day.

Different Course Options:

MTatHome has three different course options to choose from. Which one you choose will depend on if you already have some of the books and or equipment that you will need for this course. You do not need to take all three courses; you would just need to choose one of them.

Course #1 comes with the basic course materials for your training. It does not come with the digital USB foot pedal or the three mandatory items for the course. (The three mandatory items in addition to a foot pedal are the AHDI book of style, book of style student workbook, a medical dictionary.) You would need to have your own computer that runs Microsoft Windows.
**NOTE: Course #1 is only available in the USED Courseformat at this time.**

Course #2 Bonus comes with all of your mandatory books, Stedman’s electronic medical dictionary CD, and a digital USB foot pedal. The Course 2 Bonus is a complete course. You would need to have your own computer that runs Microsoft Windows and purchase your own headphones.

Course # 3 includes everything that the course to 2 Bonus has, as well as additional reference books and software that you can use in both your training and when working as an MT. You would need to have your own computer that runs Microsoft Windows.

For complete information about the different course options we offer
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Syllabus of the MTatHome Medical Transcription Training Course:

I.                      First Part of the Course:  

First Part of the course will be your Medical Terminology training which will cover many aspects of the Human Anatomy with detailed pictures and diagrams, medical terminology, pharmacology, and much more.

*After each chapter you will have exercises within the textbook and chapter quizzes on the Test CD.  These results will be sent into MTatHome.

Chapter 1: Basic Word Structure

Chapter 2: Terms Pertaining to the Body as a Whole

Chapter 3: Suffixes

Chapter 4: Prefixes

Chapter 5: Digestive System

Chapter 6: Additional Suffixes and Digestive System

Chapter 7: Urinary System

Chapter 8: Female Reproductive System

Chapter 9: Male Reproductive System

Chapter 10: Nervous System

Chapter 11: Cardiovascular System

Chapter 12: Respiratory System

Chapter 13: Blood System

Chapter 14: Lymphatic and Immune Systems

Chapter 15: Musculoskeletal Systems

Chapter 16: Skin

Chapter 17: Sense Organs:  The Eye and the Ear

Chapter 18: Endocrine System

Chapter 19: Oncology

Chapter 21: Pharmacology

Chapter 22: Psychiatry

II.                    Second Part of the Course:  

In the next part of your course you will learn Grammar and punctuation for MTs, Style & Format, Abbreviations, Qualifiers and other important standards for medical transcription.

Unit 1 - The Legal Medical Record

Types, Formats, and TATs
Editing the Medical Record
Record Privacy, Security, and Integrity

Unit 2 - General Standards of Style

Grammar
Usage
Punctuation
Capitalization
Plurals and Possessives
Abbreviations

Unit 3 - Measurement & Quantitation

Numbers
Percents, Proportions, Ratios,  & Ranges
Units of Measure

Unit 4 - Specialty Standards & Nomenclatures

Pharmacology
Cardiology
Genetics
Hematology / Oncology
Dermatology / Allergy / Immunology
Orthopedics / Neurology
Obstetrics / Gynecology / Pediatrics
Ophthalmology
Organisms / Pathogens
Psychiatry
Pulmonary / Respiratory
Other Specialty Standards

Patient privacy - HIPAA  

You will learn how important it is to follow the rules of patient privacy and what to do in certain circumstances.

III.                  Third Part of the Course:  

You will learn to use the digital foot pedal with the software that will play these files for you.

You will learn to load your dictations into the dictation player software.

We will cover the study of medical reports in the many different medical fields in your course training.  You will learn how the reports should be formatted.

Practice Dictations - Many Hours of Authentic Doctor Dictations in the many different types of medical fields with keys so you can see how well you are learning.

You will have assessments and tests with Authentic Doctor dictations in the different medical fields.

Practice Dictation:  

When completing our third part of the course you will get experience with real Dr. Dictations of the many different medical fields. You would deal with situations such as doctors that may be hard to understand, doctors that may talk fast or mumble and many other scenarios that you can run into when working as a medical transcriptionist.

You will learn the different type of report formats that medical transcriptionist use when transcribing for different types of doctors as well as HISTORY Reports, Chart notes, SOAP reports and many others.

You will be transcribing hours of practice Dr. Dictations to increase your knowledge and improve your success as a new MT.

These dictations are digital and authentic physician dictations.

IV.                  Forth Part of the Course:  

Final Part of the Course:  

Once you have completed all of the other parts of our medical transcription course and you have done each of the practice Dr. Dictations you will then move on to the assessments and finals of the course.

All of your transcription work and the grade report logs must be turned in MTatHome. You can retake your tests if you need to at no additional fee.

Once you have turned everything in you will start preparing your Resume and send it to us through e-mail for our staff to review and edit if it needs to be.  After your resume is complete we would start the Job Assistance process.

If you have any further questions about our MTatHome syllabus please contact our office.

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