I have medical students spelling every third word, such as N-O-S-E, sometimes twice.

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I want to update my 2000 Stedmans Spellchecker.  Is there a newer version and what would be the best one to get.  

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I'd estimate from my own teaching experience that it will take them 6 minutes of transcribing time for every one minute of dictation time.  If you give them a 30 minute tape per week, that's approximately three hours of transcription homework per week.

For a real job at eight hours per day, 1,200+ lines per day is usually the minimum rquired.  (Which is why they don't hire newbies.)  People who do 200-350 lines per hour are very experienced, have the same accounts every day, and use a word expander.  It's not representative of the expectations from a student or newbie.

On another unrelated board someone asked about medical transcription.  I mentioned that pay goes down instead of up because of offshoring reports and isn't the most secure job.  She came back and said she asked her teacher about offshoring and she said:  "They used to do that but they are sending it back to us now because what the clinics would have to do, is hire someone to edit them and then redo them so it wasn't working out.  They talk about it at every advisory board meeting apparently."  Hmmmm, okay.   

Just wondering.

and Tessier's The Surgical Word Book, 3rd edition.  Books you could buy used I would say would be Stedman's Pathology and Lab Medicine and Cardiology/Pulmonary word book.  These are all the books I use the most during my day.  You could buy other speciality word books as you need them and could probably go used with those.

I wouldn't bother with buying a drug book, new editions come out every year and I just stick to the FDA website and RXList as my drug references.

Also FYI, not a book, but I use my Stedman's Electronic Medical Dictationary a lot.  It's easier to open the program than it is to pick up a huge 30-pound dictionary.

Okay, I was taught to spell out everything under 10, but I am hearing that is wrong.  Was I taught wrong or did it change or am I doing it right.

Thanks in advance!

Doc dictating "I will order a single dose of Zofran for her nausea".  He is even kind enough to spell it.

S-O-P-H-R-A-N !!!!!!

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