What You Learn In School

If you've ever looked at medical records or chart notes from a doctor's office, if you are like me, it looked like some sort of foreign language and completely indecipherable.

As a trained MT, this new "language" will soon become second nature to you. You will learn the basic word combination structure of many medical phrases and will be able to decipher the meanings of long medical terminology words, symbols and phrases.

How many of us over the years have gotten a doctor's prescription with the letters PRN (p.r.n.), or TID (t.i.d.) written on this prescription pad and wondered what that meant? The common meanings to your pharmacist is PRN, "as needed," and TID means "three times a day."

Frankly, it was fascinating to learn what I considered an alien language was actually not as complex as I had thought, along with the fact that the human body and its inner workings can only be described as very interesting.

Not only will you be studying medical terminology, but you will also be supplied with actual doctors' dictation tapes to practice from. This is a great way for you to learn what real life is in the world of medical transcription. At first the programs may look daunting, but you will find that you will catch on very shortly and find that it may not be as hard as you had imagined.