Medical Transcriptionist Resume Sample

The purpose of this section is to provide some basic details that are typical for describing your work as a medical transcriptionist. This will aid you in creating sample descriptions for your resume.

Below is a list of bullet points that can be used on your resume to describe your role as a medical transcriptionist:

• Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. 
• Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. 
• Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction. 
• Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology. 
• Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries. 
• Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine. 
• Translate medical jargon and abbreviations into their expanded forms to ensure the accuracy of patient and health care facility records. 
• Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material. 
• Take dictation using shorthand, a stenotype machine, or headsets and transcribing machines. 
• Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records. 
• Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.

For a general list of keywords for your medical transcriptionist resume, you can see a comprehensive list on our Resume Sample Keywords page. These keywords are designed to help you use strong verbs in describing your experience on your medical transcriptionist resume.