Description:

This nationally recognized medical transcription online course and training program prepares you to start a new career as a medical transcriptionist. Transcriber and all materials are included in this medical transcription program. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers.

Goals:

Upon successful completion of the GES Medical Transcription course, the student will be able to accomplish the following: Describe the importance of the confidential nature of medical reports. Describe the content and purpose of the medical reports used. Transcribe medical reports using correct report format. Transcribe medical reports using correct capitalization, number, punctuation, abbreviation, symbols, and metric measurement rules Spell correctly the English and medical terms in addition to the abbreviations, either by memory or by using a dictionary/reference book. Define the medical terms and abbreviations presented, either by memory or by using a dictionary/reference book. Identify and/or define the knowledge, skills, abilities, and responsibilities required of medical transcriptionists. Understand networking through the professional organization as well as career opportunities.

Grading System:

Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.

School Description:

Offered in connection with a college or university near you, our self-paced, online career courses are designed to launch you into your dream job.

Begin your course anytime. Textbooks are included, and you will have access to student support via phone, email, and chat 24 hours a day.

Click "Enroll Now" to find the partner school for the career course you want to take.

Instructor Bio: Patricia Ireland

Patricia Ireland , CMT, FAAMT, started in medical transcription in 1968 and has been a part-time instructor of medical terminology and medical transcription since the mid-1970s. In 1989, she was asked by Southwestern Publishing Company (now Delmar Publishers) to co-author the 3rd edition of one of their best-selling textbooks, what is now Hillcrest Medical Center: Beginning Medical Transcription Course, 6th edition, the textbook currently used in the GES Medical Transcription Certificate Program.

A working medical transcriptionist, Ms. Ireland has been certified by the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) since 1981. She's been President of her local chapter of AAMT, the Alamo Chapter. She has also represented the Texas Association for Medical Transcription as a delegate to the AAMT House of Delegates, and earned her Fellowship in AAMT in March 2003.

Sara Proctor has been a medical transcriptionist both in-house and at home, a transcription supervisor for 7.5 years, and an instructor at a local business college. She became a Certified Medical Transcriptionist in 1996, and she has been a member of AHDI (formerly AAMT) since 1995. She served on the board of both local and state Missouri chapters, including serving as President. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the state newsletter, The Dogwood Dispatch.

In school, Sara majored in biology with a minor in chemistry. While in college she answered an ad in a newspaper for a weekend radiology transcriptionist at a local hospital for extra money. She could type fast enough and knew some medical terms, so she landed her first transcription job! After graduation she began working in a lab, but decided to work full-time as a transcriptionist.

Carrie Stein has been a medical transcriptionist since 1977 and was certified through the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (formerly AAMT) in 1981. Carrie originally went to college to become an RHIA (it was called RRA back then) but the only job opening when she graduated was in medical transcription. She continued to transcribe because she loved it!

Her first job was at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. It was a great learning experience because it is a worldwide referral center. She has been employed at Southwest Texas Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, for the past 22 years and has been a facilitator for Gatlin Education Services for the past six years. Carrie has been active at the local and state levels of AHDI.

She served as a Texas delegate to the AHDI House of Delegates in 2000-2001 and is the former President of the Alamo Chapter of AHDI in San Antonio, Texas. Sabrina Esposito, CMT has been a medical transcriptionist for several small and large companies over the past seven years. She is a member of AHDI (formerly AAMT) and has a Bachelors of Science in Accounting with many years of professional experience in business.

Sabrina pursued medical transcription while she was still a student in college because of so many work-at-home opportunities that were available. She was looking for work that had flexible hours while being a full-time student. Once she graduated college, Sabrina realized that she loved the work so much and has not changed careers since.