Stedman's Medical Transcription Skill Builders

Book excerpt: This text/CD-ROM package equips medical transcription students and professionals with the terminology knowledge, transcription practice, and proofreading and editing skills to succeed in the field of orthopaedics. The book provides thorough coverage of terminology encountered in orthopaedics transcription, with definitions, descriptive illustrations, and cross-references to sample reports. Fifty proofreading and editing exercises with answer keys are included. A bonus CD-ROM contains audio dictation files encompassing various orthopaedic topics, dictation styles, and accents. Answer keys provide remediation for common errors. The CD-ROM also includes an audio pronunciation glossary, crossword puzzles, and matching, fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, figure labeling, and spelling bee exercises.