Language of Medicine - 120 hours

The training duration of this module is 120 hours and it should be taken within a period of 3 months. On completion of this module, a candidate will have a thorough knowledge of the human system (Anatomy and Physiology) and various pathological conditions related to each and every organ in a human system.

The candidate will also start transcribing files pertaining to each human organ and thereby the exposure to transcribe various doctors’ dictation is acquired at this stage. This is one of the key modules that a Medical Transcription aspirant should opt for.

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Medical Transcription Rules (Theory) - 10 hours

The training duration of this module is 10 hours and it should be taken within a period of 15 days. On completion of this module, a candidate will acquire the rules to be applied during transcription.

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Recession hits IT biggies hard - Infosys has fired 2,100 employees

Infosys has fired 2,100 employees.Performance bar of all IT majors has been raised.
Infosys conducted the appraisal was conducted for 60,000 employees. Finally, about 3.5 per cent of them were either fired or left the company. Infosys currently has an employee base of 1,05,000 including 45,000 trainees.

Infosys has also offered jobs to over 20,000 freshers in 2008-09, who are yet to join the company. The employees were fired for their "incompetency". The latest development has made thousands of other employees in the IT sector insecure about their job.

American English and Grammar - 20 Hours

The training duration of this module is 20 hours and it should be taken within a period of one month. On completion of this module, a candidate will gain knowledge about American English and the US lifestyle.

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Complete MT Training Course – 450 hours (Recommended choice for best MT Training experience)

One can take a complete MT Training course of 450 hours within a period of 6 months at their convenient timings and pace of learning. At the end of training, the candidate will acquire knowledge of American grammar, American lifestyle, Medical Transcription rules (theory), Language of Medicine (Anatomy and Physiology of human system) and an elaborate training of about 300 hours on various American doctors’ dictation as transcription practice.

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So, do MTs just type what they hear?

Not if they want to stay employed for any length of time. It is an MTs job, even on the most verbatim of accounts, to be able to understand the terminology, correctly spell the terminology, fix glaring grammatical errors (verb tenses, etc.), correctly punctuate, spot any inconsistencies (to include anything from male/female, left/right to incorrect or impossible medication dosages).

If you are not asked to transcribe verbatim, it then becomes your job to perform all the tasks listed above in addition to rephrasing difficult sentences, moving text around to fit under the correct headings, deleting redundancies, expanding acronyms (you must know what those acronyms stand for), and any other thing that is requested of you on that particular account.

An MT may also be required to find the correct spelling of doctors' names, ensure a carbon copy of the report goes to whomever the dictator requests, spell the names of cities (which you may have never heard of) as well as local schools, stores, etc. All of this may require an extensive amount of research.

As well as all this, an MT is required to know how to format this legal medical document correctly, as per the doctor's, clinic's, or hospital's instructions. You will have to use proper headings, subheadings, numbering, etc.