Book of Style Scavenger Hunt – Medical Transcriptionist Week

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Happy National MT Week!

The Book of Style is an incredible reference guide for Medical Transcriptionists. Sharpen your research skills and learn your BOS or eBOS better with the scavenger hunt below. Submit your answers during MT week for a chance to win some great prizes!

1. I am hiding in one of the eBOS appendices. I am defined as a conical pointed projection.
2. I am a component of the psychiatric diagnosis and represent psychosocial and environmental problems.
3. I used to be called adult-onset diabetes. My new term is:
4. In genetics, I contain genetic code, and I am located in the chromosomes of humans and animals. Cold-case files are often solved because of me.  (Provide expanded form, not the abbreviation.)
5. There are 3 of me in a standard 12-lead EKG, and I am bipolar.
6. I am an unacceptable brief form meaning hematocrit.
7. Help Someone stole my punctuation and I dont know where it went Where should it be  (Chapter 6 may help.)
8. I am a derived SI unit abbreviation representing frequency.
9. I am the name of a classification system that describes the level of consciousness of patient with head injuries by testing the patient’s ability to respond to verbal, motor, and sensory stimulation.
10. I am a rule found in the Specialty Standards section of the BOS. I explain when to capitalize vaccine/immunization references in the record.  What is my rule number?
11. I am a verb form ending in “ing” and am used as a noun. What am I?
12. I am one of the 2 classification systems that exist to quantify cardiac function and status following an MI. My classification system describes the cardiac function after MI.  What is the name of my classification system?
13. I am an acronym used to describe characteristics of melanoma detection: ABCDE.  Please expand me!
14. Dictated: He has a plus twenty-five lens. How should this be transcribed?
15. How old am I? I had a normal electroencephalogram – **Hint – You will need to check Sample Reports in the BOS.

To submit your answers for this scavenger hunt please email: [email protected]. Submissions will be accepted until May 23, 2015.