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Medical Terminology Training:
When you decide to learn medical
terminology, what is really happening is that you are learning a
new language vocabulary. (In this case a mixture of Latin and Greek.)
Notice, importantly, that you are not learning a language - you certainly
won't find healthcare professionals conducting long conversations in Latin -
they conduct their dialogues in their native language, and occasionally
throw in a Latin or Greek word. When learning medical terminology, what you
need to do is recognize what that 'foreign' word means and translate it back
into your native language to make sense. You don't need to know how every
system in the body works to perform this translation - you just need the
word to make sense in your own language. If your career direction is to
qualify as a nurse or a doctor, you will spend years learning about body
systems, but when learning medical terminology, you just need to understand
what foreign words mean. Let's look at an example. If I were to say that a
patient has excessive sodium in his blood, do you need to know how it is
caused; how it is treated or how blood is circulated throughout the body to
understand what I've just said? Of course not! So why would you need to
learn this extra information to understand what I mean if I say a patient is
suffering from hypernatremia? (hyper = excessive natr = sodium
emia = blood)
Of course, there is still one other problem you
will encounter with learning medical terminology - How do you pronounce the words? Best
practice training covers this. All you need to do is click the 'Turn sound on'
button, and each medical term is pronounced for you as many times as you choose.
Medical Transcription Training:
If you want to learn medical transcription,
then the same best practice test applies. Most training courses on the
market teach medical transcription using full medical reports, claiming that
transcriptionists need to understand the format of medical documents. While
that was true 20-years ago, most healthcare organizations today use
pre-defined templates where transcriptionists fill in the required
information. Let's look again at an example, and then ask a simple question.
"The patient is a 45-year-old male in general good heath complaining of
dyspepsia." How many of these 15 words do you need to learn to
type? Our
best practice approach dictates that you need to learn just one word (7% of
the example), and we would be wasting your time and effort teaching you to
transcribe the
other 93%.
Medical Billing and Coding Training:
The
Medical Billing and Coding Training course is an interactive training course covering both
CPT and ICD-9 coding. The course is structured with two
components. A computer run-through of how to code every diagnosis
or procedure presented is followed by actually finding the code
in the appropriate code books. A full tutorial on using the medical
billing and coding program is available at the click of a button. The
underlying best practice learning strategy of the course is that it is completely
stress-free and it progresses at the natural learning rate of the
trainee, guiding and supporting the trainee by offering help only when
the trainee asks for it. This removes the frustration of laboriously
working through traditional training course exercises when the answer
is already known. For beginning trainees, it is recommended that they
take our medical
terminology training course
Medical Evaluation and Testing:
We
also design and produce a range of medical evaluations covering medical
terminology,
medical transcription and medical billing and coding. These tests are
designed to help individuals determine their current knowledge level,
and to help companies determine the training needs for new or
existing employees.
We can design and tailor evaluations
on any subject for any company
with specific needs - just let us know your requirements through our
Contact Us
page.
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