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Welcome to MRMT 2371 Medical Transcription III allows you and your professor a unique opportunity to take advantage of the latest technology and techniques in distance learning. MRMT 2371 offers interactive features that will make your experience comparable to that of a traditional classroom student at Collin College, while providing the flexibility and convenience of online learning. MRMT 2371 Medical Transcription III is an electronic, interactive class with a professor, students, and assignments. You will access the course via the Internet from a computer at home, work, or on campus--anytime, day or night, that you have access to the Internet. Even the Orientation information is presented via the Internet. It is the next-level continuation of the MRMT 2333 Medical Transcription II course, so you should be familiar with course procedures and requirements. How does this course differ from a traditional campus course? As soon as you enroll, access Orientation information through the MRMT 2371 course link on Professor Baird's homepage (http://iws.ccccd.edu/lbaird) and then monitor it frequently until classes begin. Updates will be posted there, so you can see them before classes begin. Because your course is on Blackboard, you will not have access to your course until classes begin. It can take time to upload all students into classes at the busy start of the semester. Your schedule allows for that time, so you will not be behind. What you can and should do right away is to purchase the required course materials as follows: TEXTBOOK REQUIRED REFERENCE BOOKS Saving Keystrokes Stedman's Surgery Words with Anatomy and Anesthesia Words (hardbound), 2nd edition, 1998 (or any later edition), Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , ISBN 0-683-40190-4. Surgical Instruments (a pocket guide), Wells & Bradley, 2002, W. B. Saunders Company, ISBN 0-7216-9571-X. OPTIONAL REFERENCE BOOKS/SOFTWARE SpeedType The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Berkow, Fletcher & Beers, Merck Research Laboratories (Merck & Co., Inc.), 16th edition, 1992 (or latest edition), ISBN 0911910-16-6, Merck Research Laboratories (Merck & Company, Inc.), publisher. A Word Book in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Sloane & Dusseau, 2nd edition, 1995 (or any later edition), W. B. Saunders Company, ISBN 0-7216-4040. Saunders Health Professional=s Planner (spiral bound), 2002, W. B. Saunders Company, ISBN 0-324-14972-7. SOFTWARE MS Word 2007 for Windows is the recommended software for transcribing and submitting assignments for this course. Do NOT use Works, WordPad, or Notepad. If you do not keyboard by touch (without looking at your fingers), then take POFT 1329 Beginning Keyboarding first, which will include MS Word software basics. If you keyboard by touch (perhaps had typing in high school) but want MS Word training before or while taking Medical Transcription I, then enroll in POFT 2301 Intermediate Keyboarding, which includes using MS Word instruction and a helpful handbook. SUPPLIES Disks of your choice for backing up assignments files. Do NOT delete any course assignments or files until the course is finished and the final grade has been posted. EQUIPMENT Foot Pedal: Select USB port connection The foot pedal replaces the need for a standard cassette transcription machine. It is recommended that you purchase the HPI foot pedal from Collin bookstores or from HPI (http://www.hpisum.com). It is also available at many online stores. Head Phones: You will also need comfortable headphones for use with your computer. Your online classroom includes medical record format guides for each medical specialty and focuses on transcription of authentic physician dictation, rather than traditional textbook experiences. You will find the format familiar, since the course is the next-level continuation of what you learned in MRMT 2333 Medical Transcription II. A weekly schedule will keep you on track for each specialty. A detailed list of required documents will guide you through assigned transcripts. Instructions for submitting assignments, subject lines to use for each group of documents, and the required saved file names will be similar to the system required in the prerequisite MRMT 2333 course. Assignments must be submitted as attachments to Blackboard. This information will be provided on the Blackboard course site. An important success objective of this course is your development of the personal self-discipline and work habits necessary to produce medical documents on a weekly basis, as you will likely do on a daily basis when managing your own home-based medical transcription career. Great emphasis will be given at this course level to what is called "turn-around time" for production of medical record transcripts. During the process of completing MRMT 2371 course work, you should improve your personal time management and transcription accuracy and production skills. Your online professor will work with you one-on-one via Blackboard email to evaluate your assignments and to help you with questions or problems. Your assignments will be scored electronically and returned to you as attachments via Blackboard email. You may be required to evaluate certain compared assignments yourself and provide quality-assurance feedback to your professor as part of the learning process. Grading will include professor comments, as appropriate and/or helpful. How do I access the MRMT 2371 Medical Transcription III class? First, you must be officially
enrolled.
Once classes begin, you should go to
http://cougarweb.ccccd.edu and follow login instructions there. Once
you have access, all email communications and submission of
assignments must be within Blackboard.
[Exception: If you have questions that
are not about course work, such as advising for enrollment, career
questions, etc., those questions should be emailed to Professor
Baird at
LBaird@ccccd.edu,
where an advising folder is maintained for guiding you over time
toward the completion of your educational goals. Please use an
email subject line that reflects the message content, such as
Enrollment Questions.] Please be patient with the process of adding all students to the many
Blackboard classes at the busy start of each semester! The
professor's homepage contains
a link to the Blackboard course site. What is the MRMT 2371 course like? After registering for the class and purchasing the course materials, you will:
YOU are responsible for scheduling your study time and completing your assignments. You are responsible for keeping up to date with the course schedule, marking the course weeks on your calendar, and keeping a record of the assignments you have submitted. The production grade component will reflect whether your work is submitted in a timely manner. Your professor is available to help you through the course by email; please do not hesitate to contact your professor. Your professor acts as a facilitator to help you master the course goals. What you gain from the course experience largely depends on how much study you personally devote to the course work. At this level, you should be focusing on achieving entry-level career skills. Realize that this course requires YOUR motivation, commitment, organization, and self-discipline. YOU must supply those success factors. Effective learning results only when students become active participants in control of their learning and take the initiative to do what is necessary. Learning the skills necessary to communicate in an online course format will be a valuable bonus to you in preparing for working in high-tech offices. MRMT 2371 Medical Transcription III is a competency-based course. To be evaluated, you must meet certain performance objectives, which are found in the course syllabus. Your final grade will be based upon your participation and your performance on the required course components. Again, welcome to the class! |
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