Word Processing Guru
OCR Medical Diploma Level 3
This course combines OCR Medical Word Processing Level 2, OCR Medical Audio Transcription Level 2 and OCR Text Production Level 3.
Course content
The course involves typing, word processing and transcribing from audio a variety of business documents, most with a medical context including, medical letters, tables, notices, posters, advertisements, information sheets, reports and articles. It also includes learning abbreviations, spellings and correction signs, moving and copying text, emphasising text, changing margins, changing the line length and dealing with a distraction. You are also expected to correct grammatical errors such as apostrophes which are not indicated in the scripts.
Distance / home learning
We will email your learning materials and instructions to you. When you have completed an exercise you email your work to your personal tutor. Your tutor will then mark your work and provide you with constructive feedback. Further exercises are then emailed for completion, marking and feedback in the same way. Further Details
Course duration
The course will need 30-40 hours of study time. The overall duration could be anything from 3 weeks to 12 months, depending upon the time you take to complete the work set.
Certification
There are 2 ways a student's ability can be assessed at the end of the course, leading to 2 different OCR / RSA equivalent qualifications.
- Students who successfully complete the end of course assessments will be awarded the Act Assessed Diploma (AAD). There is no additional charge for this.
- Students who pass optional on-line examinations will be awarded the Act Invigilated Diploma (AID). There is an additional charge of £50 per examination for this optional extra. Further Details
Is this the right course for you?
Before starting this course, students should have an advanced knowledge of word processing, a good knowledge of English grammar and a typing speed of around 50 words per minute.
This level 3 training course is especially suitable for people who either already hold level 2 qualifications or who have significant work experience in a secretarial role. The course is particularly relevant for people wishing to work in a senior administraive role in the NHS.
It is not necessary to take any text processing courses at either level 1 or level 2 before taking this level 3 text processing course.
To get the most from this course, students should have access to a foot pedal to play back the audio recordings. We are happy to provide advice on this.
Course price
The total cost of this course is £315.
This is the total amount you will pay. There is no administration fee, delivery fee, payment processing fee or certification fee and there is no VAT to add.
Enrolling
The easiest way to enrol is to click one of the links below. If you would prefer to make a bank transfer, please contact us and we'll send you our bank details.
After enrolling
Your enrollment will be processed by a person, not a computer. It may be the next working day before we contact you.