Medical Keyboarding
Course Information
This course is designed to familiarize the user with medical keyboarding, medical terminology in medical documentation, and medical office skills. It includes case histories for timed writings, medical terminology, medical letters, and a variety of medical reports. These exercises will help the learner increase their knowledge of terms they will encounter on the job, and will improve their keyboarding speed and accuracy. A very brief introduction to Medical Transcription is included. This course is a prerequisite for the Beginning Medical Transcription course.
Intake F26 SEM
Start Date Sep 08 / 2026
End Date Dec 15 / 2026
Prerequisite(s):
Students need minimum keyboarding skills of 30 net words per minute with 5 or less errors. Students with keyboarding skills less than this need to improve their skills prior to registering for this course. Medical Terminology course can be taken concurrently.
Computer Software Requirements:
This courses requires a subscription at https://typistapp.ca/ (approximately $195.00). Students must have a laptop or desktop computer- course cannot be completed with chromebook or tablet.
Chats:
No
Group Work:
No
Registering college code:
CF-OL452
Host college code:
LA-KEY1033
How to register
You can register online or in-person. When Registering for a course, it is not necessary to include the 2 digit college code prefix (e.g. ENL001– not CF-ENL001). For details, please visit https://www.confederationcollege.ca/online-courses.
Contact
Online Learning
Email : onlinelearning@confederationcollege.ca
1450 Nakina DriveThunder Bay, ON
P7C 4W1
Phone : (807) 473-3888
Fax : (807) 473-3718