This course builds directly on the competencies developed in the Introduction to Keyboarding course, leading students toward higher speed, greater accuracy, improved communication skills and refinement of formatting ability. Emphasis is placed on features, form letters and memos from a variety of source copy. This course is a beginning course that teaches basic transcribing skills. Students are taught to transcribe mailable copy from a transcribing unit with emphasis on spelling, punctuation, vocabulary and proofreading. This course offers further emphasis on speed and accuracy with development of high-level skills.
Specialized correspondence includes legal, medical and technical documents.
OT 105 Click here to view OT 205 course objectives. Students learn 350 medical word elements that are used to form thousands of medical terms. This course is designed to strengthen transcription skills through realistic medical office reports. It develops accuracy and speed in transcribing medical dictation pertaining to specialized areas of medicine. A broad knowledge of medical terms, drugs, instruments and procedures is developed as students transcribe histories and physicals, pathology and operation reports, discharge summaries, x-ray reports and consultation findings.