Medical Transcriptionist Aptitude Test

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Technical Questions

1. When a physician dictates the patient is status post CABG, what is he/she referring to?

2. Does the diagnosis MI belong with a two year-old patient?

3. Where in a chart would you find the phrase guaiac negative?

4. What does Glasgow Coma Scale mean?

5. What are Prolene, Ethilon, and Nylon?

6. What does CBC stand for?

7. Where in a chart would you find the terms LDH, SGOT, SGPT, PT, and PTT?

8. What is otitis media?

9. Where would you locate the spelling of a drug name?

10. What procedure would you follow in trying to fill in a missing word or phrase in a dictation?

11. What does NKDA mean?

12. Do you maintain a folder on new medical terms and procedures?

13. What part of the human body is the femur located in?

14. Is a blood pressure of 70/130 a normal reading?

15. What is a chief complaint?

Select the correct word from the choices in parentheses:

1. The disease has a peak (incidence, incidents) in patients between 20 and 30 years of age.

2. A mass was noted on the right side of the (navel, naval) on abdominal examination.

3. Different forms of drugs are given via different (roots, routes) of administration.

4. Her complaints of abdominal distention (bore, boar) no relation to what she ate.

5. The (aural, oral) cavity is free of any lesions.

6. My (advise, advice) is to use ice and elevation.

7. The patient was not (conscious, conscience) after the accident.

8. The patient was recently diagnosed with urinary (track, tract) infection.

9. The patient complained of burning chest pain and on gastroscopy was shown to have severe gastroesophageal (reflux, reflex).

10. The patient came into the emergency room with an ataxic (gate, gait).

11. On autopsy, the body showed evidence of (liver, livor) mortis.

12. ENT exam the (palate, palette) appears to be injected.

13. There were decreased breath sounds at the (bases, basis).

14. The patient could not tolerate the pain with oral antibiotics and was switched to (parenteral, parental) IM injections.

15. The patient was given (subliminal, sublingual) nitroglycerin (en, in) route to the hospital.

16. The patient's arms were covered with numerous small (vesicles, vesicals) from the ant bites.

17. (Cor, Core, Corp): The heart was not enlarged.

18. The patient experienced shortness of breath and (perfuse, profuse) diaphoresis.

19. The patient had a migraine headache which she said was preceded by an (ora, aura).

20. Following the stroke, the patient had (dysphagia, dysphasia, dysplasia) so we had to administer medicines by intravenous route.

Select True or False for these statements:

1. Arterial blood gasses include pH, pCO2, pO2.
True False

2. The correct way to type creatinine dictated as point one is 0.1.
True False

3. In laboratory testing, PT means prothrombin time.
True False

4. S1, S2 refers to breath sounds.
True False

5. A chest x-ray shows bibasilar infiltrates so this refers to fluid in the heart.
True False

6. A quantitative beta hCG is a pregnancy test.
True False

7. A KUB refers to an x-ray of the extremities
True False

Enter the correct abbreviation:

1. Central nervous system

2. Upper respiratory infection

3. Cerebrovascular accident

4. Complete blood count

5. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Enter the correct meaning of each abbreviation:

1. SOB

2. p.r.n.

3. t.i.d.

4. b.i.d.

5. q.d.

6. JVD

7. LVH

8. DJD

9. DDD

10. CHF

11. CABG

12. TIA

13. DOE

14. PND

15. LOC

Choose the correct answer:

1. The patient complained of pain over the right CVA area.

cerebrovascular accident
costovertebral angle
cardiovascular arteries
cardiac ventral artery

2. What word means unable to speak?

aphagia
ataxic
aphasia
apheresis

3. What word means unable to swallow?

aphagia
ataxia
aphasia
apheresis

4. How many pairs of cranial nerves are there?

5. Which abbreviation means right ear?

O.U.
A.S.
A.D.
O.S.

6. Which of the following is a tranquilizer often used during surgery because of postoperative amnesiac effect.

Valium
Versed
Restoril
Xanax

7. The abbreviation PERRL would appear under which physical exam heading?

Lungs
Heart
Head, eyes, ears, nose, throat
Abdomen