Our Objectives and Purpose 1. To do all things appropriate to the advancement and maintenance of high standards in the art, science and skills of medical transcription and to encourage, establish and maintain high standards of medical education and training for the medical transcriptionist, in order to benefit the public.
2. To promote general awareness of the field of medical transcription as an allied health profession.
3. To gather, publish and distribute information pertinent to growth, development and improvement in the skills of medical transcription.
4. To affiliate, cooperate, and work with medical societies and other agencies, professionals, and associations in the health services field, to improve and maintain high standards in the field of medical transcription.
5. To assist the public by developing high standards of education and training for medical transcriptionists and to implement these standards of education and training through appropriate channels.
6. To stimulate and encourage research concerning the knowledge needed to perform efficient and accurate medical transcription and the sociologic, environmental and legal issues related hereto. 7. To do any and all things that are lawful and not inconsistent with 1. through 6. above. |