Courses may be repeated for additional credit. Subjects are chosen and arrangements made to suit the needs of individual students. This open-lab course introduces students to basic medical terminology. Prefixes, suffixes, word roots, combining forms, special endings, plural forms, abbreviations, and symbols are included in the content. A self-paced computerized program allows the students to progress at their own rate.
Emphasis is placed on spelling, definition, usage, and pronunciation.
A basic study of Blue Shield of Michigan, Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance carriers. Completion of insurance forms and use of various coding manuals pertaining to medical office procedures. Machine transcription is a fusion of skills that combines the subskills of keyboarding, oral and written communications, listening, and decision making. A transcriptionist must be adept at simultaneously operating the equipment and applying the cognitive skills of spelling, punctuation, grammar, formatting, and problem solving during the transcription process. No shorthand is involved.