WHAT TOOLS DOES A MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST USE?
Transcriptionists who work from home usually use their own computer or a computer rented to them by the company they work for. Sometimes, if the doctor’s dictations aren’t digital, they use a transcribing machine, but in this day and time, these are starting to be phased out of the transcription field. A foot pedal is used to fast forward, rewind, and stop the dictation in order for the transcriptionist to keep up with the doctor’s voice. You can set the foot pedal to automatically rewind as many seconds as you would like in order to catch up to the speed of your own typing. Transcriptionists also usually use headphones to listen to the transcription either through their computer or through the transcibing machine. Personally, I work from home on an internet connection. Each dictation, or doctor’s report, comes through as an MP3 file, and I listen to it and transcribe it on my own computer using the foot pedal to go back and forward in the report. I then send the finished product on to
