Thats great with your education hopefuly you can get out of this career soon

• politically correct? - katmt
  • Negro patient - CTT
  • Mental retardation. - Verbatim MT
    • Outdated - FLMT
      • According to Stedman's... - Verbatim MT
        • Again with the assumptions - FLMT
          • Our job is not to police the physicians - see message
            • Exactly type what they say and move on - xcopper
            • Please see main board - FLMT
  • You transcribe what the doctor says. It is not - see message
    • Correction - FLMT
      • In regard with what you said about MTs being responsible - kt
        • Not where I've worked - FLMT
          • Not a job for the conscientious - Barry Watts
      • That just seems a little presumptive - BlechMT
        • I agree exactly with what you said about - lp
        • Speaking of presumptive - FLMT
          • Thats great with your education hopefuly you can get out of this career soon - xcopper
      • No, when something is obviously wrong you - see message
        • I agree 100% - me
        • P.S. And yes, there are some doctors - see message
          • I am allowed to edit and correct - katmt
            • True, it is in all what you are allowed or not - see message
              • Wow thats amazing.. - xcopper

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Continuing Education Credits: Approved by National AAMT for 1 CEC in Professional Development

Name of Class: Bang for the Buck: Making the Right Information Work for You

Course Description: This presentation will focus on how to utilize industry articles and publications to maximize your practical skills and how to couple those resources with dynamic networking to improve productivity and efficiency. Transition from skimming through JAAMT, Plexus, and other industry publications to proactive reading and organized research that can enhance your awareness and readiness for industry change and make you a greater asset in your workplace.

Presenter: Lea M. Sims, CMT, FAAMT

Lea M. Sims, CMT, FAAMT is Director of Publications & Communications for AAMT with 20 years' experience in the industry from MT to transcription service owner, MT educator, and AAMT Director. She is the Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal of the American Association for Medical Transcription and Plexus magazine.

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Continuing Education Credits: Approved by National AAMT for 1 CEC in Technology and the Workplace (TW) Name of Class: ”Who’s Afraid of Macros??” Course Description/Presenter: Betsy Ertel has been a transcriptionist of 30+ years in the acute care environment. She has done all fields of transcription and owned and operated 4 of her own businesses. She is the CEO of We Hear You Transcription Service and the CEO of SpeedType, "The Extreme Word Expander” for the Windows operating system, Immediate Past President of the Central Florida Chapter of AAMT and President of the Advisory Council for Winter Park Tech in Orlando, Florida and on the Advisory Council for Seminole Community College in Lake Mary, Florida. Because she is a transcriptionist with previous use of many different word expander programs all the way back from the DOS environment, she understands the need, as well as the demand to have an efficient and easy-to-use word expander program for every day production. Today she is going to demonstrate to you the unique features and functions of word expander programs utilizing the SpeedType program inside the Windows environment. You will be surprised at the advantages of a macro wizard. So sit back and enjoy and have your questions ready. ACQUIRE YOUR CECs ONLINE, AT HOME, IN YOUR SLIPPERS, WITH YOUR LATTE, (BEDHEAD IS OPTIONAL) WITH FRIENDS IN A CHAT ROOM Length: One hour. Cost: $5.00 members, $7.50 nonmembers Open To: Students, Grads, Practitioners, Members, Nonmembers/Guests of Online Chapter. You do not have to join AAMT or OC-AAMT to attend classes. Register Here > > www.aamtonline.org/ce/macros1105/macros.htm (Upon registration, you will be sent an email with instructions and the URL to the conference room for the meeting and the password to get in. PRINT IT, AS YOU WOULD AN AIRLINE CONFIRMATION.) Your username is your real name in order to get credit for attending. When: Saturday morning, November 12, 2005 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time 11:00 a.m. Central Time 12:00 noon Eastern Time Monday evening, November 14, 2005 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time 8:00 p.m. Central Time 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday afternoon, November 15 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time 3:00 p.m. Central Time 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Please write Education@aamtonline.org if you wish to be on the mailing list to receive announcements. In the event OC-AAMT or the presenter experiences an unavoidable weather/technology glitch at time of presentation, OC-AAMT reserves the right to refund or solve in the best fashion. Many employers are paying for their MTs to take these classes. Everyone is encouraged, always, to make hard copies to take to local/regional meetings and employers and distribute with permission.

ONE "LIVE" PRESENTATION ONLY: March 14,2006; thereafter, available for private download and viewing from OC-AAMT archives. Continuing Education Credits: Approved by National AAMT for 1 CEC Clinical Medicine Name of Class: MTs and Me: How and Why I Came to Recognize the Importance of MTs in My Practice. Course Description: Mr. Fisher is a gentleman who loves his work. He works 50 to 70 hours a week caring for and empathizing with his patients. When asked how he has the energy to work long hours, he replies, 'I receive energy from my patients.' He sees his practice as enabling him to further his humanity by bringing his life to his work. Mr. Fisher views the transcriptionist as the provider of the record that will be passed on so that patients will receive professional help. He understands the crucial link transcriptionists represent in continuity of patient care. He views the medical transcriptionists he works with as invaluable assets in his life, and in his patient care. He appreciates the transcriptionist's contribution to the historic link of record both for himself and for those who read after him. Mr. Fisher presented for the Louisiana Association for Medical Transcription (LAMT) in 2004 in Baton Rouge, where he held his audience spellbound and set a positive tone for the entire day. LAMT wishes to recommend Mr. Fisher highly. This is one presentation not to miss. Presenter: Larry Fisher, RNP Mr. Fisher is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Nursing School and Loyola University Family Practitioner Program. He has been a Registered Dialysis Nurse, Neurology Nurse Practitioner, and currently a Rehabilitation Nurse Practitioner. ACQUIRE YOUR CECs ONLINE, AT HOME, IN YOUR SLIPPERS, WITH YOUR LATTE, (BEDHEAD IS OPTIONAL) WITH FRIENDS IN A CHAT ROOM Length: One hour. Cost: $5.00 members, $7.50 nonmembers Open To: Students, Grads, Practitioners, Members, Nonmembers/Guests of Online Chapter. You do not have to join AAMT or OC-AAMT to attend classes. Register Here > > www.aamtonline.org/ce/mtme0306/mtme.htm (Upon registration, you will be sent an email with instructions and the URL to the conference room for the meeting and the password to get in. PRINT IT, AS YOU WOULD AN AIRLINE CONFIRMATION.) Your username is your real name in order to get credit for attending. [/b] When: PLEASE REMEMBER, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME Tuesday afternoon, March 14, 2006 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time 2:00 p.m. Mountain Time 3:00 p.m. Central Time 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Please write Education@aamtonline.org if you wish to be on the mailing list to receive announcements. In the event OC-AAMT or the presenter experiences an unavoidable weather/technology glitch at time of presentation, OC-AAMT reserves the right to refund or solve in best fashion. Many employers are paying for their MTs to take these classes. Everyone is encouraged, always, to make hard copies to take to local/regional meetings and employers and distribute with permission.

Her father has a master's in education.  do master's or education need to be capitalized?

Due to severe weather (presenter is in Baton Rouge in the path of Hurricane Katrina), the original date for this presentation (Tuesday, Aug. 30th) has been canceled and will be rescheduled. 

(The new date is tentatively rescheduled for Tuesday September 27; please write CEC@aamtonline.org for confirmation after September 15.Thank you.)


ONE “LIVE” PRESENTATION ONLY: (Tentatively Tuesday, September 27); thereafter, available for private download and viewing from OC-AAMT archives.

Continuing Education Credits: Approved by National AAMT for 1 CEC Clinical Medicine

Name of Class: MTs and Me: How I Came to Recognize the Importance of MTs in My Practice.

Course Description: Mr. Fisher is a gentleman who loves his work. He works 50 to 70 hours a week caring for and empathizing with his patients. When asked how he has the energy to work long hours, he replies, "I receive energy from my patients." He sees his practice as enabling him to further his humanity by bringing his life to his work.

Mr. Fisher views the transcriptionist as the provider of the record that will be passed on so that patients will receive professional help. He understands the crucial link transcriptionists represent in continuity of patient care. He views the medical transcriptionists he works with as invaluable assets in his life, and in his patient care. He appreciates the transcriptionist's contribution to the historic link of record both for himself and for those who read after him.

Mr. Fisher presented for the Louisiana Association for Medical Transcription (LAMT) in 2004 in Baton Rouge, where he held his audience spellbound and set a positive tone for the entire day. LAMT wishes to recommend Mr. Fisher highly. This is one presentation not to miss.

Presenter: Larry Fisher, RNP

Mr. Fisher is a graduate of Louisiana State University, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Nursing School and Loyola University Family Practitioner Program. He has been a Registered Dialysis Nurse, Neurology Nurse Practitioner, and currently a Rehabilitation Nurse Practitioner.

ACQUIRE YOUR CECs ONLINE, AT HOME, IN YOUR SLIPPERS, WITH YOUR LATTE, (BEDHEAD IS OPTIONAL) WITH FRIENDS IN A CHAT ROOM

Length: One hour.
Cost: $5.00 members, $7.50 nonmembers
Open To: Students, Grads, Practitioners, Members, Nonmembers/Guests of Online Chapter. You do not have to join AAMT or OC-AAMT to attend classes.

Register Here > >
www.aamtonline.org/ce/mtme0805/mtme.htm

(Upon registration, you will be sent an email with instructions and the URL to the conference room for the meeting and the password to get in. PRINT IT, AS YOU WOULD AN AIRLINE CONFIRMATION.)

Your username is your real name in order to get credit for attending. [/b]

When:

PLEASE REMEMBER, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

Tuesday afternoon, September 27, 2005 (still tentative)
1:00 p.m. Pacific Time
2:00 p.m. Mountain Time
3:00 p.m. Central Time
4:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Please write Education@aamtonline.org if you wish to be on the mailing list to receive announcements.

In the event OC-AAMT or the presenter experiences an unavoidable weather/technology glitch at time of presentation, OC-AAMT reserves the right to refund or solve in best fashion.

Many employers are paying for their MTs to take these classes. Everyone is encouraged, always, to make hard copies to take to local/regional meetings and employers and distribute with permission.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/directory/Specialty_Dictionaries/Medicine/more2.html

Thanks a lot everyone.  That DMS list is wonderful!!  I guess it must be his thick Maine accent!!

I do think it must be organism/bacteria, and you probably have them right. But how do they expect us to know what they are talking about when they throw out obscure acronyms like that?

Thanks again!