Coleen Jackson, an Antiguan wife and mother of three, found herself unemployed just over a year ago when the Allen Stanford saga began to unfold. With the state of the economy and the shortage of jobs, the future was looking dismal until the Antigua Barbuda Investment Authority announced that it had created 40 new job opportunities under the Medical Transcription project.
Like many others, she attended the informational session held at the Multipurpose Cultural & Exhibition Centre. After successful completion of an online screening test, she was enrolled for training in the day classes.
A medical transcriptionist converts recorded dictation to an electronic data format. This dictation is done by medical practitioners in hospitals all over the United States and Europe, and is the most common method of documenting and reporting the results of medical exams.
Here in Antigua, trainees received instruction in English grammar, medical terminology, and the various specialty areas of medicine, among other things. The group was then tested and those who gained passes were enlisted to do a 13-week internship. Their final exam was taken in the form of a quality assessment. Those who gained a pass of 95 percent or more attained certification from the American Healthcare Documentation Integrity Association (AHDI), which is the governing body for medical transcriptionists worldwide.
She encourages anyone who is unemployed, has a computer, internet and typing skills, and a good command of English to take advantage of the opportunity. She says it also requires a lot of discipline and dedication, and it wouldn’t hurt to have a love for the medical profession.
“The experience has been great, I learned a lot and I look forward to taking my place as a professionally trained medical transcriptionist,”
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