Medical Keyboarding

This is NOT a learn to type course. This course is designed to familiarize the user with medical keyboarding, medical terminology in medical documentation, and medical office skills. It includes case histories for timed writings, medical terminology, medical letters, and a variety of medical reports. These exercises will help the learner increase their knowledge of terms they will encounter on the job, and will improve their keyboarding speed and accuracy. A very brief introduction to Medical Transcription is included. This course is a prerequisite for the Beginning Medical Transcription course.

Prerequisite: Students need minimum keyboarding skills of 30 net words per minute with 5 or less errors. Students with keyboarding skills less than this need to improve their skills prior to registering for this course. Typing speed of 30 nwpm and be conversant with punctuation and spacing in regards to keyboarding. Students who do not meet the prerequisite 30 nwpm on the initial typing Preliminary Assessment (to be completed at the beginning of the course) will be asked to withdraw.

Notes:

Computer Software -
IMPORTANT NOTICE - Additional Fee - This courses requires a subscription at https://typistapp.ca/ (approximately $195.00). Students must have a laptop or desktop computer- course cannot be completed with chromebook or tablet.

Pre-requisite - Students need minimum keyboarding skills of 30 net words per minute with 5 or less errors. Students with keyboarding skills less than this need to improve their skills prior to registering for this course. Medical Terminology course can be taken concurrently.

MINIMUM PASSING GRADE - Student to achieve approx. 35 to 45 nwpm (Net Words per Minute) and a grade of 60%

Course Delivery Method:

This course is delivered Online Asynchronously. For more information on the delivery methods, click here.