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Great for anyone wanting to work as medical secretaries, ward clerks, medical receptionists or medical admin assistants and many more roles.

Whether applying for a job or honing your skills to impress employers or colleagues, this short course helps you look the part.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 8 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date
Flexible
Study Type
In centre, online, or a combination
Training Type
course
Duration
Around 6 to 8 hours

About This Course

Medical offices require a lot of admin. Getting to grips with the finer workings of Microsoft Word means you can create professional looking documents and reports quickly and easily, saving you hours of wasted time trying to format files that won’t behave.

In this course you’ll look at how to: –

• Create a number of different documents including letters, reports and notices

• Amend existing documents and proofread with the inbuilt tools

• Format text and tables for a more professional looking finish

• Arrange and re-order data in different types of documents and formats

• Use headers and footers for document consistency

• Insert pictures into documents

Here is what you’ll cover throughout the three modules in this course:

  • Module One: Including: using document templates; writing letters, reports and notices; proofreading; margins, spacing and indenting; formatting a table; moving and deleting text.
  • Module Two: Including: amending an existing document; recognising proofreading symbols; inserting and changing a file; word counts; formatting text; rearranging and sorting data in different types of document and in different formats; portrait and landscape orientations; headers and footers; inserting an automatic file name and path; numbering pages.
  • Module Three: Including: routing; inserting text; numbering continuation sheets; inserting and adjusting a picture; aligning decimals in a table; finding and replacing text in a document; applying text wrapping; reordering data in a table; sorting information into alphabetical order.

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Aims and Objectives

This course will help you learn how to produce medical documents effectively with Microsoft Word.

Pre-Requisites

Some basic knowledge of Microsoft Word would be an advantage.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

  • Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
  • You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

What we can help with:

  • Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
  • Tailored personnel letters
  • Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).

Funding & Grants:

There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

Combine this training with other, such as learning key medical terminology, and you could gain a rewarding career in roles such as Medical Administrator or Medical Secretary. If you’re working in a private GP practice, you could push towards the role of Practice Manager. Alternatively, if you gain work in the NHS, you could work through the system to become Administration Manager.

What’s the Difference?

We offer a range of training packages in a range of subject areas and can offer blended learning opportunities to best meet your needs.

Our courses are practical in nature and focus on a single subject and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.

Diplomas are designed to give you a complete skillset mapped to a specific career path and contain a number of core and elective courses.