Free Online Medical Transcription Course

In this lesson, we are going again to continue to learn about the important musculoskeletal abbreviations. As a medical transcription online trainee, you have all the responsibilities of your own growth of your knowledge and skill in this field of your own self.   You should have a regular habit of revising your all lessons, improving typing skills on a daily basis, practicing dummy transcription files (it may be available anywhere online and I have a plan to put all these things in my own full-fledged website soon and I will announce good news soon), improving your medical terminology knowledge, and healthcare update news. Now we will see important musculoskeletal system abbreviations and their meanings one by one now. Okay. Come on. RF is an abbreviated form and it can be extended as rheumatoid factor.   Rheumatoid arthritis patients have this factor and the presence of this factor in those proves the existence of rheumatoid arthritis or Sjogren’s syndrome in that pat...

This article continues the prior lesson Musculoskeletal System Important Abbreviations. It has the rest of the abbreviations of this system. From the next lesson, we are going to see the new system that is Integumentary System or Skin.   You guys, please go through all the lessons so far and make familiarized yourselves all the important medical terms of musculoskeletal system. IM is an abbreviated form of intramuscular, which means within muscle tissues.   Have you ever heard the intramuscular injection? That is in pharmacology a medicinal liquid is injected into a patient via subcutaneous tissues either in the hands or above the buttocks area or in any part of the body. Subcutaneous is the other synonym for the word intramuscular. The other abbreviation is LE cell, which means lupus erythematosus cell. It means a polymorphonuclear white blood cell that has swallowed a new cell’s nuclear substance subsequent to that cell has changed the natural qualities of that c...

“Hard work is the best investment for success” this proverb suits for success in any field. In this way, many are doing hard works to achieve success in the MT field, all the best for them, but I also suggest your work should be smart in addition to be hard, then only success will be very easy. In the venture of learning free medical transcription course online, we are going to see one more important lesson of Important Musculoskeletal Abbreviations now. These abbreviations used in this lesson are used by the doctors when they dictate a transcription dictation for a patient and these terms are used on a daily basis by them.   So you should be familiarized with these items and mug up them too and this will help you when you do practice files or live files online.   Shall we move to the lesson now. Come on. ANA, which we can extend as Antinuclear Antibody, this test assesses the sum of auto-antibodies, which have harmed the tissues of the body.   C1-C7 – This denotes...

Photon Absorptiometry:  This is one kind of visual examination, in which, one kind of rays that resemble x-rays are navigated through bones and the instrument gauges the speed or quality of the infiltration of the rays inside the bones. This test is used to measure the density of bones to find a disease called osteoporosis, a disease of abnormal thinning of bones due to less bone density. Arthroplasty:  This is a surgical treatment method of a joint. For example, total knee arthroplasty is a complete knee replacement surgical procedure to replace the damaged or diseased portions of the knee. Prostheses or artificial devices are used to do fix the bone areas after the surgery. Electromyography:  This is a method of visual examination of the joints, in which electrical stimulation is passed to the joints and so record the potency or strength of muscle contraction due to the electrical stimulation. Arthroscopy:  This is a visual examination of joints es...

In this lesson of free medical transcription course series, we are going to deal about the important laboratory tests that are used related to the musculoskeletal system.   These lab test terms are used generally in all files related to the musculoskeletal disease condition files by the dictators. You should make these terms familiar and so you can do live transcription files easily while doing production in any company.   The important laboratory tests are ANA or antinuclear antibody test, ESR or erythromycin sedimentation test, serum calcium test, rheumatoid factor test, CPK or serum creatinine phosphokinase, serum phosphorus test, and uric acid test.   We will see about each of these tests one by one now. 1.   Uric Acid Test:   This test is used to assess the total sum of uric acid in the blood sample provided by the patient.   Increase of uric acid in blood more than average to an abnormal level indicates gouty arthritis to the patient. 2. ...

Purpose of medical transcription:   Medical Transcription is a process of converting voice file from a physician to a word document after hearing the voice by a medical transcriptionist via computer with the use of a headset and computer. We may wonder what is the purpose of medical transcription, it is nothing, but every physician must submit a legal document to the government for insurance claim purpose of the patient about what treatment was done at particular time period with all details about the disease condition, causes of the disease or injury, the treatment done for it, the medication prescribed for it, and the follow-up details, and any other surgical procedure done to a particular patient. So dictating and recording about a particular patient’s medical history and other details via a Dictaphone is an essential activity for a physician or his assistant. This dictation of a particular patient should be converted into a word document after it was heard and understood and ...

We have gone through the musculoskeletal medical terms yet. In this lesson, we are going to deal about abnormal pathological conditions of musculoskeletal system.  There are several abnormal pathological disease conditions occur in the bones and muscle tissues due to the weakness and less growth and other reasons.  We will see all the conditions of disease one by one now.  These are the terms that are used everyday by the physicians in all the files while you involve in home or office live medical transcription files. If you are familiar with these words and their meanings, then the production would be of an easy task for you. So please go through these medical terms very carefully and understand them clearly. 1.  Bunion:  It is a swelling that usually found near the big toe at the metatarsophalangeal joint. 2.  Crepitus:  The crackling sound created in the joints when ends of any two bones rub against each other due to their rub on th...