Medical Transcription
CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Curriculum Code No. 3114
Department of BusinessStudies
Penn 401 • Phone (215) 968-8227
Provides graduates with knowledge and skills needed for a career in a paramedical profession that requires extensive transcription with word processing. Graduates apply their medical specialty in the following settings: medical care facilities, insurance companies, medical office service, or in entrepreneurial settings at home.
Graduates of this program are able to
- demonstrate competency in applying correct grammar usage and style when transcribing documents from dictation that uses medical terminology;
- provide word processing support by using software applications that require competency in basic to advanced functions;
- define medical terms and abbreviations; and
- select the correct format for dictated reports.
Certificate Requirements
| BIOL115 | Basic Human Anatomy | 3 |
| MEDA120 | Medical Terminology | 3 |
| OADM140 | Keyboarding/Typewriting I A | 3 |
| OADM225 | Microsoft Word-Beginning B | 3 |
| OADM260 | Keyboarding/Typewiting II B | 3 |
| MEDA275 | Medical Transcription I | 3 |
| MEDA279 | Medical Transcription II | 3 |
| MEDA289 | Medical Transcription: Surgical | 3 |
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Since the individual circumstances and backgrounds of students vary, all students planning to complete this certificate program must meet with their assigned academic advisor to develop a planned sequence of courses to meet their individual needs.
A Open to Credit By Examination
B Course requires prerequisite.
