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Medical Transcription Course Online................. Has anyone out there taken this course or are currently enrolled and need help on the actual transcription part like I do.? I would love to talk to someone maybe compare notes and help each other out. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make listening and understanding the people speaking any easier.Please help I am struggling and running out of time to finish. Would greatly appreciate any advice.Thanks

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1. There is a Yahoo! group especially for students and novice medical transcriptionists. It's called NMTC--the new medical transcription connection. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NMTC/ During the years I taught medical transcription, I *strongly* recommended that my students join the group. They are there strictly to help each other. Here are some suggestions: 1. Transcribe what you can, straight through, leaving blanks where you can't make out a word or phrase. Then take your transcript and listen to the dictation again. You'll probably hear more the second time, and you'll be able to fill in some of the blanks. Then read through the transcript and look for common phrases. 2. Each group of dictations should be based on a common element, such as "cardiac," "urology," "neurology," and so on. Review your terminology text and your anatomy text for that system before you start transcribing, then review the vocabulary looking for a term similar to what you hear that you can't quite make out. 3. What you can't fill in after you've reviewed the related vocabulary and the related body parts, take to the NMTC group as a "s/l" (sounds like). Give the sentence before the blank, the sentence with the blank, and the sentence following the blank. Then spell out what the missing word or phrase sounds like. For example: The patient was in today 45 days post surgery for follow-up on a _____________ amputation, left leg. s/l: "baloney" or bah-LOW-nee 4. Slow the dictation down, then speed it up to see if that helps you make out what's being said. Good luck with your studies. Transcription isn't the easiest profession in the world--if it were easy, everyone would do it and you wouldn't have to take anatomy, pharmacology, terminology, and language arts courses--but it is most worthwhile and rewarding. Hang in there!