Articles for tag: Flexible Work, Language Skills, Medical Terminology

Career Step Medical Transcription Course Review

Career Step (www.careerstep.com) offers a high quality training course in medical transcription in both online or text book formats. The course is very complete and comprehensive and designed to prepare its graduates for every aspect of medical transcription employment. Career Step’s graduates are often considered as preferred hires by the medical transcription industry leaders, such ...

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Medical Terminology 101

Intimidated by large medical words that your physician or other health care worker may use? Don’t be, after this article you too will be able to speak “medical” with the best of them. First of all in medical terminology you will find history in the words. Medical terminology is based largely on Greek and Latin ...

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Getting Started in Medical Billing and Coding

You’ve seen the ads. “Learn medical billing and coding and earn $50,000 a year in your own home!” There is some truth to the ads. Doctors are in desperate need of good billers and coders, and there is good money to be made, but don’t let the ads fool you. There is no shortcut to ...

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How to Become a Self-Employed Medical Transcriptionist

Many websites extol the opportunities for working from home as a medical transcriptionist. They offer short courses in medical transcriptions and promise that in just a few months, you too can be working from home and making a fabulous salary! Well, is it too good to be true? The truth is that yes, medical transcriptionists ...

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Funny Quirks in Medical Terminology

The title sounds quite odd, does it not? Or is it misleading? I personally think medical terminology is rather strange, especially how it can mislead people from a non-medical background. There is an extensive list of bizarre medical terms that define health conditions or medical processes, yet they all sound like small jokes between the ...

National Medical Assistant Certification

Medical assistants that have their national medical assistant certification have much to offer in today’s society with a big increase in demand with medical health care. The medical assisting field is one of the world’s largest growing fields due to the increased number of practices and clinics that are showing up worldwide. These businesses need ...

What Does a Medical Transcriptionist Do?

With the growing trend of mothers wanting to stay at home with their children, but still have the security of being able to work, there is a growing interest in the Medical Transcription field. Many people are curious as to what a medical transcriptionist really does, and others attempt to enter the field and realize ...