What is Medical Transcription? Courses & Careers

Medical transcription, in short called as MT, is fast becoming one of the most sought after home-based professions in India as well as in several developed countries.

Medical transcription can be defined as a process of transcribing or converting recorded dictations by physicians and/or other healthcare professionals regarding a patient’s medical record into a written text.

Medical transcription is the industry that renders doctor dictated reports, procedures, and notes into an electronic or paper format in order to create files representing the treatment history of patients. Health practitioners dictate what they have done after performing procedures on patients.

A patient who is admitted to the hospital, or seen in the emergency room, or has an X-ray, for practically any medical incident, reports are generated.

The medical transcriptionist is the key person who transforms those reports from the dictated form to the written form, to be produced as hard copy or sent to storage in a computer system.

As long as people get sick, injured, or visit medical personnel for other reasons, there will be a job for a medical transcriptionist. That transcriptionist must know medical terminology thoroughly, must have a command of English grammar, and be efficient on the keyboard.