Sunday, September 9, 2007

Consciousness Raising Exercises

Obviously, readers of this blog cannot fill in the blanks on these exercises by entering data on their computer screens. However, readers should feel free to print out any of these exercises for use as a teaching/learning tool in a professional setting.


Consciousness Raising Exercise #1

This exercise is designed for physicians who can't understand why anyone "who can type" doesn't possess the core competencies required by medical transcriptionists to do the work they do.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #2
This exercise is designed for physicians who vent their anger against the personnel in the Medical Record Department during the course of their dictation.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #3
This exercise is designed for physicians who have trouble understanding that they must be held accountable to the same -- if not higher -- standards of accuracy as the medical transcriptionists who must convert a physician's dictation from voice to text.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #4
This exercise is designed as a wake-up call for risk managers and medical record directors coping with doctors whose dictation is inaccurate, incoherent, and irresponsible.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #5
This exercise is designed for doctors who insist on dictating at speeds that undermine the quality of their dictation.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #6
This exercise is designed for doctors who are in acute denial about the fact that they have impaired language skills.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #7
This is another exercise designed for doctors who insist on dictating at speeds that undermine the quality of their dictation.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #8
This exercise is designed to help doctors of different generations examine how new words that have entered the vernacular have changed their ways of
communicating.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #9
This exercise is designed to help doctors articulate histories and physicals for some of the more bizarre cases they see on duty in the Emergency Room.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #10
This exercise is designed to help doctors narrate a physical examination for a patient who has numerous body ornaments.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #11
This is another exercise designed to help doctors of different generations examine how new words that have entered the vernacular have changed their ways of communicating.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #12
This exercise is designed to help doctors overcome any priggishness about dealing with sexually-transmitted diseases and the language used to describe their cause.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #13
This is another exercise designed to help doctors of different generations examine how new words that have entered the vernacular have changed their ways of communicating.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #14
This exercise is designed to help doctors examine the language that has evolved through the increased politicization of healthcare and medicine.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #15
This exercise is designed to help physicians communicate with the diverse types of patients whose lives will be touched by them.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #16
This exercise addresses the quality assurance issues raised by doctors whose personal quirks compromise the integrity of the data in their dictated reports.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #17
This exercise addresses the risk management problem of doctors who don't want to learn about the mistakes they make in their dictated reports.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #18
This exercise addresses a dangerous quality assurance issue which could lead to a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #19
This exercise is a classic example of risk managers needing to ask "What's Wrong With This Picture?"

Consciousness Raising Exercise #20
This exercise deals with patients who become hostile and abusive during an examination.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #21
This exercise addresses the problem of hospital administrators negotiating for the lowest possible price on transcription without understanding the effect of their action on risk management and quality assurance.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #22
This exercise addresses the problem of how to dictate the embarrassing situations of patients who come to the hospital with "rectal foreign bodies."

Consciousness Raising Exercise #23
This exercise addresses the problem of medical negligence when dictating reports.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #24
This exercise addresses the problem of having your peers listen to your poor dictation.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #25
This exercise addresses the problem of a dysfunctional office manager who comes between a good dictating physician and his transcription service.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #26
This exercise addresses the quality assurance and risk management problems raised by speech recognition technology

Consciousness Raising Exercise #27
This exercise addresses the problem of doctors who refuse to learn how to work with a digital dictation system.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #28
This exercise addresses the problem of hospital administrators who expect transcription services to be performed for unreasonable compensation.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #29
This exercise addresses the problem of doctors who want faster turnaround time on dictated reports but refuse to migrate from tapes to digital dictation.
Consciousness Raising Exercise #30
This exercise addresses the problem of doctors whose sloppy dictation habits cause unnecessary work for support staff.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #31
This exercise addresses the problem of doctors whose dysfunctional behavior can alienate them from the very people whose help they need the most.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #32
This exercise addresses the behavior of doctors who like to bully and intimidate fellow members of the patient care team.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #33
This exercise addresses the problems of doctors with poor time management skills who procrastinate when it comes to dictating their reports.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #34
This exercise addresses the problem of doctors whose dysfunctional behavior sabotages the concentration of medical transcriptionists in the workplace.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #35
This exercise addresses the problem of dysfunctional doctors in denial who need to understand that they are the cause of problems they complain about in their dictated reports.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #36
This exercise is designed to show a difficult dictator what it is like to be on the other end of the line.

Consciousness Raising Exercise #37

This exercise is designed to show what can happen if a medical transcriptionist is not editing a doctor's dictation.


Consciousness Raising Exercise #38

This exercise is designed to show what can happen when risk managers and purchasing agents lack an understanding of the dictation/transcription process.


Consciousness Raising Exercise #39

This exercise is designed to demonstrate the risks of attempting to dictate medical reports when mentally and/or physically exhausted.

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