Forrest General Medical Center Advanced Medical ... (ISBN 1401833489)

Difficult book to use:
This book and its predecessor are difficult to use. While the information may be good, this book requires a lot of flipping back and forth between pages. The CDs are really, really bad. The persons posing as doctors are poor readers. It's obvious they're reading scripts from the sound of turning pages heard. These persons affect poor accents...one female tried to sound Scottish and kept saying "fart" for "for". One male, who reads as if, at best, he has an 8th grade education with a 5th grade reading level (he doesn't understand commas and periods), is really bad to listen to when he tries to sound Hispanic. Loud crunching sounds and cocaine sniffs by one male and the above-mentioned female sound like delinquent hogs at slop. The very worst thing about the CD and text, however, is in the fact that terminology is not only not found in the text, it isn't found in Taber's, Mosby's, or Stedman's dictionaries, nor in the Merck Manual. I wouldn't recommend purchase unless, like me, you are required to purchase these for a class. I know doctors can be extremely aggravating, but no more so than the "doctors" on the CD and this text!

Excellent as long as you get the tapes!:
Great book for advanced training. Get the tapes for sure!

Forrest General Medical Center:Medical Term.& Transcription:
This is a reference book only. You have to call the publisher to order the dictation. Without the dictation a medical transcription 'course' is rather useless.

Excellent book:
The 2004 Delmar Thomson catalog states that an audio CD is in the back of this book. In order to get this audio CD of dictations, call Delmar at 1-800-998-7498, extension 2687 Page 115 of this catalog says that an audio CD of helpful exercises is in the back of the book.

Advanced Training:
The training material will hopefully give me information needed to pursue a career in Medical Transcription. I am currently studying the first book. This particular book, Forrest General Medical Center Advanced Medical Transcription Course, I have not used yet. I have done transcription before for a legal group and wanted to pursue the medical records field. The book is full of information that I will use when I begin medical transcribing.