Also called: Healthcare Documentation Specialist
Turns doctors' recorded dictations into written medical reports.
Listens to recordings with headphones and edits AI-generated drafts of reports, catching errors like a misheard drug name. Mostly remote work.
BLS May 2024.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Certificate program in medical transcription.
Ways in: Certification, Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Medical Transcription (certificate).
Shrinking (about -5% over 10 years). Declining.
High risk for 10 years. Speech recognition and AI scribes now produce most reports; the few remaining jobs edit AI drafts.
Classes: English composition, Keyboarding, Biology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 31-9094.
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