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Medical Transcription: Diploma

Advising Code: D 25 32 0

The Medical Transcription diploma at Guilford Technical Community College is a one-year completely online limited-enrollment* program. It consists of 48 credit hours (16 classes), including a 160-hour required internship during the summer semester.

The MT curriculum prepares individuals to become medical language specialists who interpret and transcribe dictation by physicians and other healthcare professionals in order to document patient care and facilitate delivery of healthcare services.

Students will gain extensive knowledge of medical terminology, pharmacology, human diseases, diagnostic studies, surgical procedures, and laboratory procedures. In addition to word processing skills, students must master English grammar, spelling, and proofreading.

Graduates should qualify for employment in a variety of settings such as hospitals, medical clinics, doctor's offices, and transcription service companies. After acquiring work experience, individuals can apply to AHDI to become Certified Medical Transcriptionists.

The GTCC comprehensive medical transcription program is approved by the Approval Committee for Certificate Programs (ACCP), a joint committee established by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) to approve medical transcription education certificate programs. AHIMA and AHDI acknowledge the ACCP approval committee as the process to identify quality medical transcription education programs that have been evaluated by a peer review process against a minimum set of standards for entry-level medical transcription professionals. This process allows academic institutions, healthcare organizations, and private companies to be acknowledged as offering an AHDI Approved Medical Transcription Program.

AHDI Approval

Identifies for the public specialized programs that meet established
medical transcription educational standards.
Stimulates improvement of educational standards by involving faculty and
staff in program evaluation and planning and faculty development opportunities.
Promotes a better understanding of the goals of professional medical
transcription education.
Provides reasonable assurance that practitioners possess the necessary job skills upon entry into the profession.

Program Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Medical Transcription diploma program, the graduate should be able to:

Transcribe a variety of medical documents accurately
Use a medical dictionary and medical terms effectively
Perform computerized office functions
Analyze work schedules and priorities

Curriculum

	Course		----------	Hours per Week	----------	Credit
Prefix	Number	Course Title	Lecture	Lab/Shop	Clinic/CoOp	Hours
Fall Semester I
OST	132	Keyboard Skill Building	1	2	0	2
OST	136	Word Processing	2	2	0	3
OST	137	Software Applications	2	2	0	3
OST	141	Medical Terminology	3	0	0	3
OST	164	Text Editing Applications	3	0	0	3
OST	203	Fundamentals of Medical Documentation	3	0	0	3
TOTAL			14	6	0	17

Spring Semester I
ENG	111	Expository Writing	3	0	0	3
OST	142	Medical Terminology II	3	0	0	3
OST	165	Advanced Text Editing Applications	2	2	0	3
OST	201	Medical Transcription I	3	2	0	4
MED	116	Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology	3	2	0	4
TOTAL			14	6	0	17

Summer Term I
COE	111	Co-op Work Experience 0 0 10 1	0	0	10	1
OST	149	Medical Legal Issues	3	0	0	3
OST	202	Medical Transcription II	3	2	0	4
OST	286	Professional Development	3	0	0	3
-	-	Social / Behavioral Science Elective	3	0	0	3
TOTAL			12	2	10	14

Total credit hours required for diploma: 48
This curriculum is subject to change.

*The Medical Transcription diploma is a limited-enrollment program. Only 20 students are admitted to the program each academic year. To qualify for the program, a student must pass a keyboarding placement test with a score of at least 45 words per minute with three or fewer mistakes over three minutes using a covered keyboard. Students may take this placement test, as well as the required English and reading placement tests, in the Assessment Center on the Jamestown campus.

This degree is offered completely online; however, students have the option of taking some courses on the Jamestown campus. For more information on online program requirements please contact the eDegree Program Coordinator at edegree@gtcc.edu.