medical transcriptionist
ISCO: 3344. Skills: 35. Essential: 15.
Essential skills
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- apply organisational techniques
- archive healthcare users' records
- comply with legislation related to health care
- database
- edit dictated medical texts
- execute working instructions
- grammar
- health records management
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- manage digital archives
- medical terminology
- transcribe medical data
- use electronic health records management system
- use word processing software
Supporting skills
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- collect healthcare user's general data
- display medical problems
- handle paperwork
- health care system
- human anatomy
- identify patients' medical records
- liaise with typists
- manage digital documents
- medical informatics
- participate in medical records' auditing activities
- perform backups
- perform clinical coding procedures
- process data
- professional documentation in health care
- review patient's medical data
- transfer medical information
- use databases
- use shorthand
- work in multidisciplinary health teams