Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for medical transcriptionists. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Produce medical reports, correspondence, records, patient-care information, statistics, medical research, and administrative material.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Identify mistakes in reports and check with doctors to obtain the correct information.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Review and edit transcribed reports or dictated material for spelling, grammar, clarity, consistency, and proper medical terminology.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Transcribe dictation for a variety of medical reports, such as patient histories, physical examinations, emergency room visits, operations, chart reviews, consultation, or discharge summaries.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Distinguish between homonyms and recognize inconsistencies and mistakes in medical terms, referring to dictionaries, drug references, and other sources on anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Return dictated reports in printed or electronic form for physician's review, signature, and corrections and for inclusion in patients' medical records.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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