Course Title: Medical Transcription + Medical Terminology
Hours required: 300
Price: $1,895
Length course offered: 6 Months
Instructor: Nancy Anacker [Bio]
Description:
This nationally recognized medical transcription online course and training program prepares you to start a new career as a medical transcriptionist and includes a medical terminology course. Transcriber and all materials are included in this medical transcription program as well as access to a medical terminology course. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers.
Goals:
Upon successful completion of the Medical Transcription + Medical Terminology program, the student will be able to accomplish the following. Display a working knowledge of Medical Terminology. 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.
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Instructor Bio: Nancy Anacker
Carline Dalgleish has been employed in the business office management profession since 1970. She began in the medical records department of the Army/Air Force Hospital in Nuremberg, Germany, and over the years has performed accounts receivable and business office management services for physicians, clinics, and hospitals, as well as the Healthcare Financing Administration (now CMS). She has real-time experience in administrative and financial departments, as well as management experience in business office administration, regulatory compliance, information technology, and services. In addition, she has created the curriculum for and instructed programs in administrative medical billing, diagnostic and procedural coding, and accounts receivable and accounts payable, as well as other allied health, business, and professional development courses.
In the early 90's, Carline moved full-time into curriculum development, teaching, and management of business and allied health education programs, with special emphasis on business office administration and management.
Carline is a Certified Medical Assistant-Administrative and a formerly licensed vocational/practical nurse, and she holds a Bachelor's degree in business information systems and a Master's degree in leadership and healthcare administration.
She is a member of AAHAM, AHIMA, PAHCOM, AAMA, AAPC, CCST, AAMT, and AMTIE, as well as the National Dean's Scholars List. She currently owns and operates COUGAR-Ed.net, which specializes in curriculum development and delivery of continuing education products, seminars, and services.
In addition to her work with ed2go, Carline is adjunct faculty at University of Phoenix and is a contributing author to several allied health textbooks.
Nancy Smith credits medical terminology with providing all of her career opportunities since 1982. After graduating from college in 1976, she taught business programs in Philadelphia for four years while her husband completed medical school. When her husband was recruited by a rural community hospital, he found himself without a suitable pool of candidates to run his new office. Nancy studied medical terminology and became his office manager in 1982.
Several years later, they relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her experience with medical terminology led to more career choices. She worked as a medical transcriptionist, and then she was hired to establish a medical assisting program at a local vocational school. After teaching the coding and billing programs for several years, Nancy left that position to teach medical terminology at a minimum-security women's prison, a local hospital, and a night program at a community college.
In 2000, Nancy was once again teaching billing and coding programs when she decided to take a position in patient registration with one of Pittsburgh's leading trauma centers. This position led to an offer from a digital transcription company to help train new clients.
In 2007, Nancy was hired by a CMS subcontractor to audit medical records for reimbursement, and she holds this position currently. For this position, Nancy also obtained a national coding certification. Through all of these career moves, Nancy credits her knowledge of medical terminology as the most important factor in allowing her to secure each position and succeed at the job. She is passionate about showing others how medical terminology can provide a lifetime of job opportunities in a wide range of career paths.
Medical Transcription Instructors
Nancy Anacker has been a working medical transcriptionist since 1996, transcribing in a variety of medical specialties. She is currently a member and secretary of the Alamo Chapter of the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI; formerly AAMT). As a former Washington state resident, she held offices in their local and state components of AHDI and represented Washington state as a delegate to the then-AAMT House of Delegates.
Nancy has a background in legal work as well as corporate human resources.
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 third edition of one of their best-selling textbooks, what is now Hillcrest Medical Center: Beginning Medical Transcription Program, 6th Edition, the textbook currently used in the ed2go Medical Transcription Online Training Program.
A working medical transcriptionist, Patricia 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 she earned her fellowship in AAMT in March 2003.
Lisa Israel, MBA, CMT entered the medical transcription field in 1997 at the behest of her sister, a fellow transcriptionist, and found it to be the perfect use of her skills, loved the flexibility and was encouraged by the multitude of opportunities. She is thrilled to be using her experience and education to help guide and mentor new transcriptionists! She has worked with small and large transcription companies, small and large facilities, and has experience with all work types. She has mentored and supervised transcriptionists, and enjoys teaching online transcription and healthcare administration courses.
Lisa earned her BA degree in Speech Communication from California State University, East Bay, and her MBA in E-Business from University of Phoenix. She earned her Certified Medical Transcriptionist (CMT) certification from the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity.
Sara Proctor has been a medical transcriptionist both in-house and at home, a transcription supervisor for seven-and-a-half years, and an instructor at a local business college. She became a Certified Medical Transcriptionist in 1996, and she’s 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 ed2go 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.
