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