Designed for: Those who wish to learn how to develop their word processing skills for use in a medical office environment. Potential careers include a variety of administrative roles – medical secretary; ward clerk; medical receptionist; medical summariser; medical admin assistant
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft Word and Business Document Production
Objectives: To prepare those who wish to work as a medical secretary and to take the OCR Level 2 Medical Word Processing unit examination
Course Content
- Lesson One – Including: using document templates; writing letters, reports and notices; proofreading; margins, spacing and indenting; formatting a table; moving and deleting text
- Lesson Two – Including: amending an existing document; recognising proofreading symbols; inserting and changing a file; word counts; formatting text; rearranging and sorting data in different types of document and in different formats; portrait and landscape orientations; headers and footers; inserting an automatic file name and path; numbering pages
- Lesson Three – Including: routing; inserting autotext; numbering continuation sheets; inserting and adjusting a picture; aligning decimals in a table; finding and replacing text in a document; applying text wrapping; reordering data in a table; sorting information into alphabetical order
Benefits
- The opportunity to gain a Level 2 unit qualification
- The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace
- A workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course
- The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate
Course duration: 6-8 hours