NWCCD 2009-10 Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
NWCCD 2009-10 Catalog [This is an Archived Catalog.]

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BOTK 2600 - Medical Transcription


This course incorporates skills in information processing, medical terminology, and machine transcription in order to produce medical reports for health care facilities. The main objective is to provide the students with knowledge of the content and formats of medical documents and reports typically dictated in physicians’ offices, hospital clinics, and hospital ancillary and support facilities. Students will need to master language skills–grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, formatting–and to apply the techniques of decision-making, as well as “common sense” during this transcription process.

Prerequisites:
CMAP 1501 - Keyboarding/Word Processing and CMAP 1680 - Micro-computer Applications and BIOL 1050 - Medical terminology OR instructor consent

Credits: 3

Lecture/Lab Hours: 1 lecture, 4 lab hrs/week

General Education Requirement: None



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