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Medical Transcription Training for visually impaired

Course Code     : MTVI-SET Duration     : 6 Months

Sarthak educational trust in collaboration with enable India is launching medical transcription training programme for visually impaired persons. As you are aware, Enable India has been conducting Medical Transcription Training for the visually impaired.

Similar programme is being run by Enable India at Bangalore since 2008. As of now 20 visually impaired persons have been trained and most have already employed. The programme would be run with technical support of Enable India.

On successful completion of the training with 98.5% accuracy & minimum 300 lines per day, you will be guaranteed a job doing medical transcription.

About Sarthak :

Sarthak is a registered Charitable Trust formed in 2008. The trust is working for visually impaired and other disabled with its main objectives as counseling, education, training and employment-hence leading to total rehabilitation.

About EnAble India:

EnAble India is a non-profit organization working tirelessly since its inception from 1999 towards the economic independence and dignity of persons with disabilities. EnAble India caters to the needs of all kinds of disabilities like visually impaired, hearing impaired, physically disabled, mental retardation, mental illness and more across India. Major thrust areas are employment, pre-employment services, and work place solutions, supplemental education, consulting and enabling other institutions working for the disabled.

About Medical Transcription training for visually impaired

Medical Transcription is a growing industry which will always be having a demand all around the world. Medical transcription is a process of documentation of patient’s history, diagnostic tests, surgery descirption, or any other medical documentation.  They accomplish this by listening to the doctor’s dictation which is received as voice file, and converting into text format. This job requires learning medical terminology, language of medicine, anatomy of human body, various diseases, English Grammar, and various accents ike Americanism. This job suits visually impaired who have good computer skills and who have the willingness to learn.

This is a great field for visually impaired as the work involves in just listening and typing.  This course helps candidates graduate to start the career as Medical Transcriptionists.  The visually impaired medical transcriptionists have already been working in companies such as M-Pulse, CBAY, RTech, Digimetrix, Lake Systems and others.  This job will be highly useful for visually impaired. Especially people who have difficulty in mobility, can take up home transcription after gaining experience from a company and reaching a good accuracy level.

Course Details:-

Duration    :     6 months
Timings      :     9 am – 5 pm, Monday – Saturday
Date          :     20 June Onwards
Seats         :     15
Premise     :     Sarthak educational trust office, Vikas Puri, New Delhi

Contents:

1.     Revision of Computer advanced – Word, Internet, Excel
2.     English – English grammar & Phonetics
3.     Language of Medicine
4.     Anatomy and physiology
5.     Disease processes
6.     Pharmacology & laboratory medicine
7.     Medical Transcription technology
8.     Healthcare records
9.     Privacy, ethics, and other medico legal issues
10.     Medical transcription practice
11.     MT specific JAWS Training
12.     Quality Consciousness, Attention to detail, Accuracy, Speed Etc.
13.     Required Skill and attitude preparation
14.     Disability specific component to work efficiently in the job
15.     Interview and company tests preparation

Material Used:

1.     Audio Material for Language of Medicine
2.     Tactile diagram of various MT Application
3.     Human Anatomy Models
4.     Exercises/tests on Medical Transcription, English Grammar, Medicines, listening skills, aptitude tests.

What you can expect from the course:-

You can expect to get all the training required to become EMPLOYABLE for this exciting job. If you pass this course, we will be able to provide interview opportunity at the earliest. If your communication or technical knowledge is weak, you may need to take up some more practice just after the training at the premise.

Who are eligible?

Visually impaired with at least Degree or 12 years (PUC) education. 10th pass candidates may be considered on an exception basis. Selection of candidates will be based on the following criteria:
-     Candidates who have good spellings and capable of learning spellings
-     Average English grammar skills
-     Good computer skills (understands the concepts)
-     Good aptitude for learning medical transcription technical concepts
-     Aptitude for understanding American accent (listening skills)
-     Capability to learn American English & grammar
-     Commitment and dedication to learn medical transcription

Venue: Sarthak educational trust
DG-2, 248-A, Vikas puri
New Delhi-110018

Dates: Evaluation (Test & Selection) on 5th, 10th and 15th June 2009 at Sarthak educational trust
            Inauguration will be on 20 June 2009
            Course will commence at Sarthak trust from 20 June 2009.

Joining Procedure:

1. Candidates have to call Sarthak trust office and take appointment for the evaluation test. If they are from out of station, the evaluation and interview will be conducted via telephone. Local candidates who pass the evaluation will be asked to come for interview on 5 June 2009 at Sarthak trust .

2. For further queries contact us:

Sarthak trust , DG-2 ,
248-A , Vikas puri ,
New Delhi-110018,
Telephone: 011– 28538994, 9718711463.
Email: sarthakedu@gmail.com

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