Spellchecking

Every medical transcription job must be carefully checked for spelling errors. The spellchecker that comes with a word processor is inadequate. For this reason, every medical transcriptionist should have a good medical spellchecker installed on the computer and linked to the word processor. Most companies will  require the availability of a resident medical spellchecker before hiring. The most frequently recommended or suggested spellchecker (and oftentimes it is required) is Stedman’s Medical Spellchecker.

Be aware that no matter how good a spellchecker might be, no spellchecker will find errors in words that otherwise might be correct. Homonyms* are a good example, i.e., there/their, week/weak, dysphasia, dysphagia, etc. The presence of a spellchecker does not preclude proofreading for such errors. Proofreading is still required.

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*A comprehensive list of homonyms is available here. .