Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Transcription Practice - 300 hours

Candidates with minimum Medical Transcription knowledge are recommended to take up this course to enable them to enhance their transcription skills. In this module, the candidate will be exposed to various doctors’ dictations in various specialties like Cardiology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, etc.. The candidate will be required to transcribe around 25 hours (i.e. about 500 medical reports) of dictation. The highlight of this module is that the candidate will have the feedback of the transcribed file instantly.

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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.