CARRIE STEIN, CMT
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Send reports for grading to:
7910 Cerezo
San Antonio, TX 78250-5143
Phone 210-684-7387
student e-mail: [email protected]
I. STUDENT INFORMATION DOCUMENTS
A. Updates to Hillcrest
B. On-Line Medical Transcription Student Information
C. Grading policies, scale, minimum standard, and reports to be sent in for grading
D. Link to L&M Bookstore on-line list of medical transcription reference books
E. Laboratory data document (test names, abbreviations, what they mean)
F. Vital signs, suture sizes, sharp and blunt dissection, and use of gravida and para
G. Articles from ADVANCE for Health Information Professionals on
1. Editing (two documents)
2. Ergonomics
3. The real world of medical transcription
4. Medical transcription career development in hard times
5. Stumbling-block words
H. Two newspaper articles by James Kilpatrick, one on the spoken word vs. the written word and one on the proper use of �only.�
I. Medical Terminology Skill Builder (answers found in Hillcrest Medical Center text-workbook). Do not return to Facilitator.
J. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) information
II. GRAMMAR/PUNCTUATION/STYLE RULES REVIEW
To be completed after carefully studying pages 13-15, 41-49, 216-221, and 226-229 in your Hillcrest Medical Center text-workbook and after studying the student packet on the web site given to you by your Facilitator. You may check in your medical abbreviation book for some of the abbreviations. Return to Facilitator for grading. This grade is 20% of your final average.