Before reading - WARNING - I am IT lingo challenged.

How did you set up your physical exam reports for each doctor? Do you use the same abbreviation (short?) for each one and just keep them in separate glossaries? Do you have all of them in a master list with different abbreviations, i.e., PESmith, PEJones, PETurtlehead?

I am in the middle of transcribing a neurologist and he uses two exam formats in almost every report, one for general and one for cranial nerve. I would like to copy and paste this text and set it up in IT right now but am not sure of the best method.

Any suggestions?

Muchas gracias,
raine

For IT, since you have the columns that pop up, it probably makes more sense to do it rossmith, rosjones, and pjones, psmith.

I do it jonesp, jonesros, jonese, jonesrtc. One particular doctor I have review of systems, physical examination, rtc, and "This dictation was dictated in the presence of the patient."

For other help with headings and common things after, see Surgical Headings thread.

Thank you for responding.

raine

I've kind of hesitated to reply to this because I don't consider myself one of the more organized people out there with IT, though I feel like I do fine. I guess, too, because I basically do the same PE format for all of them, and I just make shorts for all the different things each one says.

One thing I would not do is give them the same short, even if they were in separate glossaries. You can get along fine with same shorts in IT, but it still isn't that wise, in my opinion. Well, at least if you use includes. Not that I don't actually have some!

I might probably make a new glossary and then have all the different docs' shorts in there, then include it with your main glossary. Just some short forms with a differentiating letter or letters, like Georg suggests. I think giving them unique short forms and even just keeping them in your main glossary would be fine. But then again, I've seen some real pros out there giving methods they use, that seem really neat. Here is only single post out of many, many you may find helpful at the IT forums:

http://fitaly.com/board/itmainforum/posts/950.html