Occupation Atlasmedical transcriptionist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5d5fde2c-47ce-4dcd-99f0-ba651b7b908f
medical transcriptionist
Medical transcriptionists interpret dictated information from the doctor or other healthcare professionals and convert it into documents. They create, format and edit medical records for patients based on the provided data and take care to apply punctuation and grammar rules.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
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Occupational interest profile
CSIConventional · Social · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.25
- S Social3.69
- I Investigative3.60
- R Realistic2.47
- A Artistic1.74
- E Enterprising1.26
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Medical Transcriptionists (31-9094.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (15)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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
Optional (20)
- 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
O*NET equivalents
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