Two Essential Equipment You Will Need to be an Effective Medical Transcriptionist

In the medical transcription process you will need to use transcribing machines with headset and foot pedal to listen to recordings by physicians and other healthcare professionals dictating a variety of medical reports to be able to transcribe them.   Most of the things needed are pretty basic like a computer (an up-to-date one), keyboard (ergonomic preferred) and headphones but there are two equipment, that would be of most help in transcribing and make you an effective medical transcriptionist, that you may not be familiar with are foot pedals and medical transcription reference materials.

Medical Transcriptionists Foot Pedals

Foot pedal are use to control the dictation. The basic foot pedal allows you to play, stop, rewind, and fast forward the dictation using your feet and keeping your fingers free to type. This will save you time and keep you from having to use the mouse every couple of seconds to start and stop the dictation. It's really easy and basic to learn to use a foot pedal. There are many types of foot pedals and all of them work with different programs including Express Scribe.

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Medical Transcriptionists Reference Materials

Medical transcription reference materials are what make the job as easy as it is. It’s 

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practically like having all of the answers you need right in front of you at all times. A  lot of this research can be done through the use of the Internet and other types of research can be done through having the correct medical transcription reference books  at hand such as the ones listed below.

The most important ones to have right away would be:

1.  Stedman's  Medical Dictionary.
2.  Stedman's Abbreviations, Acronyms & Symbols.
3.  Quick Look Drug Book 2011

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