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 - Fall
	AHS 104	Medical Vocabulary/Anatomy	3
	AHS 170	Fundamentals of Disease	3
	AOT 134	Office Communications	3
*	AOT 163	Word Processing	3
Total 12
Second Semester - Spring
	AHS 121	Basic Pharmacology	2
	BIO 112	Basic Anatomy and Physiology	4
	AOT 122	Medical Transcription I	3
	AOT 260	Office Word Processing Applications	3
Total 12
Third Semester - Summer
	AHS 105	Medical Ethics and Law	2
	AOT 222	Advanced Medical Transcription	3
	AOT 254	Office Simulation	3
Total 8

*Prerequisite of AOT 105 or equivalent