Medical Transcriptionist

Certificate: Business
Credit Requirements: 32 Semester Credit Hours

The Medical Transcriptionist program prepares you to transcribe medical records. Courses cover medical terminology, human anatomy, physiology and skills in information processing. Medical transcriptionists are employed in hospitals,
clinics, nursing homes and physicians’ offices.

Admission into this program requires proof of high school graduation (or GED) and qualifying scores on SAT, ACT or the TTC placement test.

Recommended Sequence of Courses


First Semester

 

AHS 104

Medical Vocabulary/Anatomy

3

 

AHS 170

Fundamentals of Disease

3

 

OST 134

Office Communications

3

OST 163

Information Processing

3

Total 12


Second Semester

 

AHS 121

Basic Pharmacology

2

 

BIO 112

Basic Anatomy and Physiology

4

 

OST 122

Medical Machine Transcription I

3

 

OST 210

Document Production

3

Total 12


Third Semester

 

AHS 105

Medical Ethics and Law

2

 

OST 222

Medical Machine Transcription II

3

** 

OST 254

Office Simulation

3

Total 8

*Prerequisite of OST 105 or equivalent
**Must be taken last semester