TERRI’S MEDICAL SPECIALTY GLOSSARIES
for use with Instant Text
- 15 Glossaries - 16,000 Entries -
(for the Shorthand/SpeedType version click here.)
Terri's Medical Specialty Glossaries (TMSG) are a set of fifteen glossaries for use with Instant Text organized by medical specialty such as Laboratory/Pathology, Oncology, Radiology and OB-GYN.
The glossaries have been compiled for use as reference lists, for text entry, or both. Using Instant Text and TMSG you can quickly look up unfamiliar words and phrases, and then enter them into the text at the same time -
a real time saver. There are often helpful hints and notations alongside the medical terms as well, as will be shown below. The glossaries range in size from 5000 to 80 entries and have been carefully selected
because of their proven use for individual transcriptionists, small or medium transcription services as well national transcription services.
You can open one glossary, several glossaries, or have access to all the
glossaries by using the Includes feature of Instant Text (Pro version) or Merge (regular version). You can easily customize your use of TMSG depending on your needs per client, per job, or per transcriptionist.
Here are
some screen shots from the glossaries. Terri's Medical Specialty Glossaries (Set 3, which contains all 15 glossaries) has been loaded in Instant Text. The Word Advisory is shown and the Phrase advisory has been turned off
for this illustration. The letters "em" have been typed and the following is displayed:
Notice how much information is at your fingertips after typing only two letters!
You can then use any left-to-right abbreviation - the extraordinary "skip ahead" feature of Instant Text - to narrow the choices,
then enter the text by using the marker key. To get "Embedded Figures Test", for example, you could type 4 and the marker key. Instant Text uses special keys like the semi-colon to enter text, although one can
use the space bar as well. You would type 4 keystrokes to get 21. Or you could type "emb" and the marker key to get the same result.
As seen in this example, Terri's Glossaries often give the
acronym (EMACO) and then the expanded version (etoposide, methotrexate...). Often you may want to enter only the acronym, but on occasion it may be essential to know the expanded version as well. In these glossaries, the
plural form of a noun is also given in some instances (here, embolus/emboli), which is helpful to the beginning transcriptionist.
In this screen shot, only the letters "wy" have been typed. The example shows how Terri's glossaries contain explanatory comments in parentheses (line 3 and line 6) and give acronyms in full (line 7). Some of the entries are long and should be keyed in if you need to read or enter the entire entry. This is far quicker than switching to another program and doing a search, or doing an Internet search with Google or a specialized medical search page and sorting through returns, or getting out a reference book and thumbing through its pages. The combination of Terri's Glossaries and Instant Text further illustrates what great keystroke savings are often obtained. For example, typing "wy8" and the marker could get "Wallaby phototherapy system" with a savings of 24 keystrokes, or a 600% savings.
The above screen capture shows the details of typical entries from Terri's Glossaries, e.g. the company name, acronym plus acronym with expansion, and alternate forms of a phrase to allow selection of the version required (lines
5, 6, 7). Only the letters "be" have been typed and again much detailed information is instantly available.
In the following screen shot, we have clicked on "TerrisMSGSet3" in line 3 under the gray
"Glossaries" heading, which brings up Instant Text's Glossary Viewer:
This screen shot shows additional typical entries in Terri's glossary set. Note that "ObGyn2" in pink at the lower left indicates which glossary (and medical field) the entry highlighted in blue ("Pomeroy tubal
ligation") may be found in. One can also search the glossaries using the "Search" feature on the left hand side of the box.
Another way to check a term would be to open a single glossary back on the
main Instant Text page (examples in red above) and do a "wild card" search for a term (that is, typing in letters you think are in the term) rather than using the complete set of 15 glossaries which we have been
employing here. Instant Text offers many options in ways to arrange and do things.
Terri's Medical Specialty Glossaries for Instant Text are available in the following sets:
Set 1: AIDS, Cardiovascular, Dermatology, Male Reproductive, Neonatal, Nephrology, Neurology (7 glossaries, c. 2500 entries) [$20]
Set 2: Gastrointestinal, Genitourinary, Laboratory/Pathology, OB-GYN, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, and Radiology (8 glossaries c. 13,500 entries) [$30]
Set 3: The complete set (all the above glossaries - Set 1 plus Set 2)
(15 glossaries, c. 16,000 entries) [$40]
Note: Terri's Medical Specialty Glossaries are also available on this web site in Excel format for reference only - that is, for reference but not for text entry.
You may also order the Instant Text version from the ABCZ web site if you prefer to make payment with your credit card.
For the Shorthand/SpeedType version click here.