This course is designed for people who wish to gain a recognised qualification to enable them to begin work or improve their career in medical reception and medical administration roles. It develops a broad understanding of the principles of medical administration and reception. They will learn techniques and good practice for medical administration and also develop skills required in all areas of medical and clinical administration.
1: Reception Skills
General reception skills
Duties of a Medical Receptionist
Telephone skills
Customer service
Making and recording appointments
2: Office Administration
Record keeping
Communications
Time management
3: Technology
Typing and keyboard skills
Microsoft office software
Common medical software
4: Medical Terminology
Origins of structure and medical terms
Composition of medical words
Terminology of body structures, systems, diseases and conditions
Titles, professional qualifications and professional bodies
Eponyms, acronyms and abbreviations in common use
5: Working with Medicines
Drugs awareness
Legislation governing medicines
Medicines
Controlled Drugs
Drugs disposal
6: Hygiene
None
| Starting | How long | Days you attend | Tutor | Where | Class info | Price |
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Online course |
60 hours |
You choose the days | Self taught | You study this on your computer | Max size:99 |
£329.00 |
Intermediate
NCFE
Medical Secretarial Work, Medical Reception

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A good, basic introduction to counselling. However, the college seems to overplay its own qualifications, by, for example, calling the last piece of work required a 'thesis', when it is just an essay. Also, a mark of 80% scored an A+, but...more
7 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.I started the course with a very basic knowledge of bookkeping. I was more interested in the Sage part of the course more than anything but was advised to start off with a manual refresher course as it had been a few years since i had done ...more
7 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.So far so good! I enrolled in September and I must say that I have been dealt with in a friendly and efficient manner. I chose the uk open college as i believe they offered good value for money for this course which was £999. I had been quo...more
2 Hotcourses user(s) found the following review helpful.This course gives you a diploma in counselling, but as counselling is a non-registered subject (at the moment), it is far too easy to be a 'proper' diploma. It does give an interesting insight into the basics of counselling, but, for examp...more
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