An individual who supports doctors by transcribing, formatting, and proofreading dictated medically-oriented reports is known as a medical transcriptionist, or "MT." The primary responsibility of a medical transcriptionist is to produce the uncomplicated and most accurate healthcare documentation possible – and do it fast. This course will provide all the information needed to understand the various aspects of the medical transcriptionist job.

Although this course teaches the vocabulary and terminology of Medical English, in our multicultural world, this is, of course, not enough. A key aspect of this course is knowing how to use this new vocabulary as part of your overall English skills in various environments. Medical professionals find themselves in a wide range of situations across cultures, each of which presents itself with important linguistic and stylistic differences.

This flexible CPD in Medical Decision Making: Ethics and Law is suitable for anyone in healthcare or legal professions (or anyone else who is interested in this area). You can study flexibly, and on-demand at a pace to suit your work and other commitments.

Study the knowledge that underpins effective decision-making in practice and develop your critical analysis skills. Our range of flexible, interdisciplinary courses will deepen your understanding of ethical and legal issues in healthcare and will help to build your confidence.

Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that examines medicine and health through humanistic disciplines such as history, ethics, religion, literature, cultural anthropology, media studies, and the visual and dramatic arts. Students in the minor will learn about medical and health systems and practices using methodologies such as close reading, cultural comparison, historical contextualization, creative expression, and critical thinking. The field is committed to interpretive and qualitative work that explores the human dimensions of experiences of health and illness, for doctors and for patients. The Medical Humanities minor is an interdisciplinary course of study, housed in the School of Humanities.

Medical terminology is the study of the rules of medical word building. Receive a thorough grounding in basic medical terminology through a study of root words, prefixes and suffixes.