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Medical Office: Assistant & Transcriptionist: Top Resources

Guide to library and online resources for students in the Medical Office Assistant and Medical Transcriptionist programs.

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Top Resources

Medline Plus
Excellent information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine the latest health news, a medical encyclopedia and interactive patient tutorials.
Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Services (CPS)
CPS (formerly RxTx) provides access to CPS and CPhA peer-reviewed monographs, therapeutic choices, drug tables/choices, a drug interaction checker, Health Canada advisories and recalls, etc. It is updated weekly.

Merck Audio Dictionary of Medical Terms
Listen to the correct pronunciations of medical terms.

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
A comprehensive guide to disorders and diseases with information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and drugs
Academic Search Complete
Provides indexing, summaries and some full text articles from academic and popular journals covering a wide variety of subject areas.

MedWord
"For Transcriptionists By Transcriptionists" Canadian site, targeted at the working transcriptionist. Links to sites specializing in equipment, software, and book resources.
Labtestsonline
This site is excellent for looking up lab tests and reasons for them on line. It will be an asset to any student needing to understand lab tests and their relations.

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Subjects: ASL, Deaf & Visually Impaired, Automotive & Heavy Duty Transport, Basic Education, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, EAL (LINC & Pathways), eBooks, Education, Family Literacy, Interpreting, Legal Assistant & Paralegal, Office Administration, Sociology, Visually Impaired, Zotero

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