MR260 Medical Transcription II Week 3-Chapter 5 “Family Practice & Critical Thinking” Essentials of Medical Transcription Instructor: Amber Krasny MBA, CPC,CMRS

What You need for this class… Both textbooks:  Essentials of Medical Transcription, A Modular Approach, Destafano & Federman, Second Edition  AAMT Book of Style for Medical Transcription  Any other resource books you may have available such as medical dictionary, PDR, Merck Manual, etc.

How the class will work… This is an open book Seminar. Be prepared to respond to the questions on each slide. Be prepared to share your thoughts with the other class participants. After the questions slide you will see an answer slide so you can check to see how you did.

Is everyone ready?

Critical Thinking Skills  Learning to be a critical thinker is imperative in our business.  Developing critical thinking techniques ensures the accuracy and validity of your documents.  Using critical thinking techniques will help you find the answers to all the questions that will come up as you are transcribing.

Characteristics of a Critical Thinker Raymond S. Nickerson (1987), an authority on critical thinking, characterizes a good critical thinker in terms of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and habitual ways of behaving. Here are some of the characteristics of such a thinker.

Nickerson’s Partial List…  Uses evidence skillfully and impartially.  Distinguishes between logically valid and invalid inferences [conclusions].  Can learn independently and has an abiding interest in doing so.  Is aware of the fact that one's understanding is always limited, often much more so than would be apparent to one with a non-inquiring attitude [mind].

A Fun Definition of Critical Thinking Paul, Binker, Adamson, and Martin (1989) "the art of thinking about your thinking while you are thinking in order to make your thinking better: more clear, more accurate, or more defensible.“ This is called “metacognating,” or thinking about what you are thinking about.

Critical Thinking Cont. Can you find the word “metacognating” in or through any of your resources? If so, where and what is the definition that they give? Can you give me an example of when you have caught yourself metacognating?

4 Steps to Critical Thinking 1.Identify the elements of your document a.Body system and/or specialty b.type of document c.report headings, paragraph content, and the other sentences in the paragraph that you have already transcribed d.Find the diagnosis or procedure. e.Use any other information you may have on hand, such as the medical record or previous reports.

4 Steps to Critical Thinking 2.Evaluate your assumptions about those elements a.Does this word, test, etc. belong in or with this body system, procedure, operation, diagnosis? 3.Judge your choices probability or acceptability of being right.

4 Steps to Critical Thinking Cont. 4.Evaluate your choices by asking: “With what I already know, which is the most probable or likely to be correct, and why?”

Group Discussion Finally, After going through this and none of the things seem right, or you can’t find an answer what do you do? NO, don’t throw your books out the window!!

Now here are some opportunities to use what you just learned.

Exercise The next few slides have sentences to review. Using the Critical Thinking Model we just discussed choose the correct word(s) for the sentence.

H&P Family Practice “She noted that his BP drops at times at home going into the hundred sycosis/systolic/stasis range.” Hypertension and angina parous/pectoris/pectineal. MI 3 months ago. Medications: Lipitor/lisinpril 10 m.g. daily Lopressor/lorazepam 100 m.g. BID

Answer the multiple choice questions below: 1.Accumulation of fluid and cellular debris in the tissues: 1.Exdate 2.Exudate 3.Edema 4.Exdema 2.Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose 1.Mucosa 2.Mucos 3.Rhinitis 4.rinitis

Group Discussion How did you do? Give me some idea of why you chose one thing over the other, especially in question 1 where the two words exudate and edema are so close?

Chart Note Family Practice SUBJECTIVE: The patient comes in still complaining of mid-upper gastric pain. She denies any hematemesis/chemotaxis or melena/heloma. OBJECTIVE: Her skin pallor/pallium is normal. The abdomen is soft, slightly tender in the epigastric/epiglottis region. There is no rigidity/depilatory or rebound.

Group Discussion  How did you do? Give me some idea of why you chose one thing over the other?  Will this lesson help you in the future? How?

The End Well that’s all for tonight! Next week we’ll do some more metacognating!! Thanks for joining us. I hope you learned something to help you in your transcription career. I’m feeling a little bewitched after this class! See you next week! Same time—same place!