Sampler Overview

The Key to Medical Transcription:

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

Special! 3-CD Set

ePractice Files

Large Print DRUG LIST

Guide to Expanders

Custom Calendar

Medical Transcription Service

Transcription Connection

Insight

Work-At-Home

My Story

Digital How-To

Free MT Tools
Adobe Reader

Dictation Recorder / Editor

Online Resources

Ready Lists

Websites

Drugs Info I
Drugs Info II

Physical Exam
Spelling

Tests and Signs

Word Help

Wound Care

MT Courses/Schools

MT Jobs

VOLUME i - SAMPLER

I GETTING STARTED - OVERVIEW

Period Paragraph contains more than 100 medical transcription dictation files. These files were carefully selected from a library containing thousands of voice files. The dictations cover a variety of types of medical transcription. SOAP notes, consultations, hospital emergency room reports, operative reports and more are among the types of reports included. Numerous specialties are represented including family practice, internal medicine, gynecology, neurology, orthopedics, pain management, psychiatry, radiology, rheumatology, and more. Careful attention was paid to selecting voice files that cover a range of voices, dialects, and accents. A variety of dictating styles is likewise represented.

It should be noted that all aspects of medical transcription cannot be covered in this limited space. This CD is a sampling. It is intended to provide practice for the new and established medical transcriptionist. It is also designed to serve as an introduction for anyone considering a career in medical transcription.

II DICTATION – 100+ voice files

This section of Period Paragraph contains almost five hours of dictation in more than 100 voice files. The voice files are numbered so that the user can easily keep track of which files were completed and which remain. These files are then arranged in alphabetical order by specialty. They are not arranged by level of difficulty. In fact, the files are not graded for their level of difficulty. As all MT’s well know, the average day of medical transcription is usually a mix of clear and muddled voice files, some easy, some not, and all containing their own quirks and challenges. This CD is not designed as a teaching tool but rather as a staging area for practice. Practice, after all is the key to success in medical transcription.

Each file is a separate and unique dictation waiting to be transcribed. As in reality, the voice files range in size, length, style, volume, and complexity. Some dictations are less than a minute in length; others are 5 minutes long, 8 minutes long, and even longer. By keeping each file separate, it is easy for the transcriptionist to practice at a comfortable pace.

The voice file dictations include:

58 SOAP

24 CONSULTATIONS

11 HOSPITAL REPORTS

9 INVESTIGATIONS

III ANSWER KEY – Transcription of all voice files

This section is the transcription of the voice files contained in Section II above. The transcribed documents are arranged to correspond with the voice files and are therefore arranged in the same format.

Text files contained on Period Paragraph are stored twice, once using Adobe Reader format (.pdf) and again in Microsoft Word (.doc) format. Adobe Reader is a universal approach to sharing computer text files, a free resource available to everyone. By using Adobe Reader, everyone has access to these files without exception and without concern for individual word processing software access. To download the Adobe Reader, click on the following hyperlink and follow instructions provided:

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Period Paragraph has been carefully designed to provide ease of use. Therefore, all text files are stored in two otherwise identical files: Adobe and MS Word. Choose either Adobe Reader or Microsoft Word to open the text files. All text files are available in both formats.

Attention is paid to following the AAMT Book of Style guidelines. However, medical providers often have specific needs and requirements that vary from the AAMT Book of Style and differences may be reflected in these files. It is imperative that the medical transcriptionist remember that to transcribe correctly is always to comply with the client’s wishes first. Let the AAMT Book of Style be your guide but always abide by the client’s specific needs and requirements.

The Answer Key includes:

A. SOAP transcriptions

B. CONSULTATIONS transcriptions

C. HOSPITAL REPORTS transcriptions

D. INVESTIGATIONS transcriptions

IV WORD LISTS

The words and abbreviations included in the following lists all come from the dictations on Period Paragraph. Whole books have been written listing just the medical words of a given specialty. It is not the intention of Period Paragraph to presume to include all of the words used in medical transcription. Rather these lists are tools to assist in transcribing the voice files and may also be used as learning devices. The lists are alphabetized and searchable.

The following Word Lists are included:

A. ABBREVIATIONS 157 abbreviations found on this CD

B. DRUG LIST 191 medications cited on this CD

C. ROMAN NUMERALS I to M (1 to 1,000)

D. MASTER WORD LIST 3,700 words from dictations on this CD

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