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MRMT-2433-001 Medical Transcription II
Prerequisites: MRMT 1407
Transcription of medical reports with increasing speed and accuracy including history and physicals, consultations, discharge summaries, operative reports and other medical reports.
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Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:
Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:
Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me
You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.
(4 sem hrs; 1 lec, 7 lab)
Online Course
There are NO textbooks required for this course. All equipment, tapes, and CDs are provided.
1 Flash Drive
The Medical Word Book, (Latest Edition)
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, (Latest edition)
The Language of Medicine
Diseases of the Human Body
Medical Transcription Guide Do's and Don'ts
Pharmaceutical Word Book (current year available)
Medical Abbreviations (available in the AC bookstore)
2 Pocket folder
Each student will be able to perform the following as evaluated by the program's faculty:
• Performing on an individual contract schedule basis. These contracts will have assigned listening skill sheets and transcribing reports to be completed with the assigned scheduled time.
• Demonstrate correct English usage, applying the rules of proper grammar, punctuation, and style, using correct spelling & logical sentence structure.
• Demonstrate the ability to operate designated dictation, transcription, & word processing equipment.
• Demonstrate a general knowledge of the various kinds of dictation, transcription, and word processing equipment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medical terminology including prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, root words, plurals, abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, homonyms, foreign words/phrases, and colloquialisms.
• Demonstrate the ability to use medical references & other resources for research.
• Correctly spell medical terminology related to anatomy, physiology, laboratory tests, drugs, clinical medicine, surgery, pathology, & radiology.
• Demonstrate knowledge of human anatomy & physiology including body systems, structures, and functions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of clinical medicine including the diagnosis & treatment of common medical conditions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of common laboratory tests.
• Demonstrate knowledge of common drugs & their indications, actions, dosages, & administration.
• Recognize, evaluate, & interpret inconsistencies, discrepancies, & inaccuracies in medical dictation & appropriately edit, revise, & clarify the transcripts of such dictation without altering the meaning of the document or changing the dictator's style.
• Demonstrate the ability to accurately proofread & correct transcribed medical reports.
• Demonstrate an understanding & application of ethics in the medical transcription profession.
COURSE GOALS:
The student will be able to perform the following as evaluated by the program's faculty:
• Work and take care of transcribing equipment properly.
• Transcribe actual hospital/office dictation with a minimum number of errors – 10 to 15 or 85 to 90 percent accuracy
• Develop & maintain an understanding of record report format, spelling, & punctuation.
• Continue to expand knowledge & comprehension of medical terminology, definitions and procedures.
• Develop a basic understanding of foreign pronunciation differences.
• Recognize that each foreign language has its own set of rules with regards to pronunciation.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Each student will be able to perform the following as evaluated by the program's faculty:
• Performing on an individual contract schedule basis. These contracts will have assigned listening skill sheets and transcribing reports to be completed with the assigned scheduled time.
• Demonstrate correct English usage, applying the rules of proper grammar, punctuation, and style, using correct spelling & logical sentence structure.
• Demonstrate the ability to operate designated dictation, transcription, & word processing equipment.
• Demonstrate a general knowledge of the various kinds of dictation, transcription, and word processing equipment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medical terminology including prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, root words, plurals, abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, homonyms, foreign words/phrases, and colloquialisms.
• Demonstrate the ability to use medical references & other resources for research.
• Correctly spell medical terminology related to anatomy, physiology, laboratory tests, drugs, clinical medicine, surgery, pathology, & radiology.
• Demonstrate knowledge of human anatomy & physiology including body systems, structures, and functions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of clinical medicine including the diagnosis & treatment of common medical conditions.
• Demonstrate knowledge of common laboratory tests.
• Demonstrate knowledge of common drugs & their indications, actions, dosages, and administration.
• Recognize, evaluate, & interpret inconsistencies, discrepancies, & inaccuracies in medical dictation & appropriately edit, revise, & clarify the transcripts of such dictation without altering the meaning of the document or changing the dictator's style.
• Demonstrate the ability to accurately proofread & correct transcribed medical reports.
• Demonstrate an understanding & application of ethics in the medical transcription profession.
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Students that have been identified for THEA-required remediation must, according to Texas State Law, participate continuously in their THEA-remediation courses or they will be withdrawn for ALL course work, including the AH courses, through an administrative withdrawal for THEA non-compliance. If you have any questions about THEA-remediation, please call the Advising and Counseling Center at 371-5440 or 356-3603
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It is the responsibility of the student to officially drop or withdraw from a course. Failure to officially withdraw may result in the student receiving a grade of “F” in the course. The student may obtain a withdrawal form from his academic advisor, the counseling center or from the registrar’s office. It is also the responsibility of the student to take the drop slip to the registrar’s office in order for the student to be officially dropped from a course. Students are not automatically dropped from their class roles as a result on non-attendance. Students may also use Web Advisor to drop a course.
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A student who has a problem with the course or the course instructor should make every attempt to resolve the problem with the course instructor. If that is not successful, the student may appeal the decision of the instructor to the Program Director, the Associate Dean of Health Sciences, the Dean of the Health Sciences Division, the Vice President of Academic Affairs, and the President -- IN THAT ORDER. Please refer to the current Amarillo College catalog for complete explanation of the grievance procedures.
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Pagers and telephones are disruptive during class time. Telephones must be turned off during class time with the exception of emergency personnel, pagers must either be turned off or set to vibrate during class time. Please notify me in writing if you fall in this category, otherwise failure to comply will result in you being asked to leave class for that day. You will still be responsible for the material covered in class. If you feel that you will have an emergency during class time, leave the number of the student services office and they will contact you immediately. The number is 371-5300.
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Amarillo College students should be familiar with the contents of Amarillo College's Rights and Responsibilities. This information may be viewed or download by accessing the Amarillo College catalog online. It is the student's responsibility to become familiar with student's rights and responsibilities.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:
Academic dishonesty shall constitute a violation of the college rules & regulations & is punishable as prescribed by Amarillo College Board policies. Academic dishonesty shall include, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. “Cheating on a test” shall include:
• Copying from another student’s test paper.
• Using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test.
• Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator/instructor.
• Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an administered/unadministered test.
• Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test.
• Bribing another person to obtain an administered/unadministered test or information about an administered/unadministered test.
“Plagiarism” shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work.
“Collusion” shall be defined as the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements.
TRANSCRIPTION LAB RULES:
Each session will begin on schedule 8:00 a.m. with the students prepared for class and END at Noon.
1. No typing outside class will be allowed.
2. Your flash drives, medical tapes, and transcription assignment must be turned into the computer lab attendant and/or instructor before you leave class. You need to have a folder with your name on which is to be used to turn in your transcription assignments. This folder should not leave the lab.
3. Any assignment that is taken out of the lab will not be accepted.
4. All work that has been printed out during class must be turned in before you leave class.
5. Your flash drive must be checked out from the lab attendant or instructor at the beginning of class and must be checked back in before you leave.
6. No incompletes will be given for this course.
7. Spell-check is available to check commonly misspelled words. Students are advised to use the spell-check to reduce their error average, however the student must realize that the spell-check cannot be used to check medical terminology. It is important for the student to know how to spell the medical terminology dictated on the transcription tapes.
8. When typing reports the students should use Arial (if available) font and no less than a 12 point size.
9. All reports MUST be printed as you finishing transcribing the report. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST 15 MINUTES OF CLASS TO PRINT your reports out.
10. No printing will be allowed after 11:30 a.m.
Transcribe:
86 reports + 16 Surgery reports + 10 exams with 4.0 or less error average = A
74 reports + 16 Surgery reports + 10 exams with 4.1 to 5.0 error average = B
64 reports + 16 Surgery reports + 10 exams with 5.1 to 6.0 error average = C
102 reports & 10 exams with 4.0 or less error average = A (Minimum of 13 reports/exams weekly)
90 reports & 10 exams with 4.1 to 5.0 error average = B (Minimum of 11 reports/exams weekly)
80 reports & 10 exams with 5.1 to 6.0 error average = C (Minimum of 9 reports/exams weekly)
• Error average is figured by the number of errors on exams / number of exams transcribed.
• No "D" can be made in this major course requirement.
• To receive an "A", you must transcribe 102 reports (includes the 16 surgery reports & the autopsy report, Pathology 1-A-1) and 10 exam reports and your error average must be 4.0 or less.
• Final grades will not be rounded in this course.
Each student will have an individual transcription contract. ALL students will be required to type the autopsy report in the Pathology section. The autopsy report is Path 1-A-1.
A student contract can be updated or revised at any point in the semester by the instructor.
Each student will grade their own transcribed reports. This will allow the students to see what errors they are committing. The instant feedback will help when the students prepare to transcribe the exams for each section assigned.
All transcribed reports will be handed into the instructor after the student has graded the reports assigned.
Before a student will be allowed to transcribe an exam, the student must have transcribed a minimum of 10 reports per specialty, grade the 10 reports, and turned the reports into the instructor for review.
The 10 reports will be reviewed and evaluated by the instructor. The student's progress will be discussed. These reports will go toward the number of transcribed reports along with the 10 exams to determine the student's final grade for the course.
Each student will be required to transcribe 10 exam reports.
If a student makes more than 10 errors on an exam, the student will be given the opportunity for one (1) retype per exam. The transcribed exam with the least errors will be the grade used in determining your final grade. It will be the student's choice whether to retype an exam.
If the student should choose to transcribe only for a grade of “C” in this course, the student will still be responsible for transcribing the 64 reports, which will include the Pathology report, Path 1-A-1 (Autopsy), 16 surgery reports and the 10 exams and have an error average of 5.1 to 6.0 in order to make a “C” in this course
All students will be required to transcribe the 16 surgery specialty reports in order to complete this course.
Last day to turn in transcribed exams for grading is TBA.
There are NO makeups in this course. All work is to be done in the MDS computer lab.
"Regular attendance is necessary for satisfactory achievement. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the student to attend class." A student who plans to succeed in this course should also plan to regularly and promptly attend each course session. Any student who is chronically late to class or leaves early or is absent more than 3 classes during the course for whatever reason, will be advised to withdraw from the class. Three classes missed, equals 3 to 4 weeks of typed assignments. The student will be expected to sign in for class. Failure to do so will be considered an absence.
Any student who arrives late or leaves early will be assessed a tardy. Three (3) tardies will equal 1 absence. If you are late more than 20 minutes to class, you are tardy. If you leave early, before 10:40 am you will be assessed a tardy.
After an accumulation of TWO (2) absences, your final average will be reduced one (1) letter grade. This means if you have transcribed 86 reports, including the Path 1-A-1, + 16 Surgery reports + 10 exams with 4.0 or less error average the student receive a final grade of “B”.
Each student will be required to transcribe 10 exam reports.
If a student makes more than 10 errors on an exam, the student will be given the opportunity for one (1) retype per exam. The transcribed exam with the least errors will be the grade used in determining your final grade. It will be the student's choice whether to retype an exam
The last 2 exams assigned on a student's contract is the final exam for this course.
• Topics covered on the transcription tapes and CDs are as follows:
• Cardiology • Ophthalmology
• Dentistry-Oral Surgery • Orthopedics
• Dermatology • Pathology
• ENT • Plastic Surgery
• General Surgery • Radiology
• Internal Medicine • Psychiatry
• Neurology • Surgery
• OB/GYN • Urology
• In all sections to be completed, the student will be transcribing the following medical report formats:
• History & physicals • Pathology
• Operative • Autopsy
• Consultations • Letters, progress notes
• Discharge summaries • Radiology
• Medical reports (speeches, etc.)
The Medical Word Book, (Latest Edition)
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, (Latest edition)
The Language of Medicine
Diseases of the Human Body
Medical Transcription Guide Do's and Don'ts
Pharmaceutical Word Book (current year available)
Medical Abbreviations (available in the AC bookstore)
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