What is the Medical Documentation and Secretarial Department?
Graduates of the Medical Documentation and Secretarial program are responsible for admitting patients, maintaining records, and ensuring general office operations in healthcare facilities or private practices. Graduates of the program earn the title "Medical Secretary."
The professional responsibilities of a medical secretary can be summarized as follows:
Answering incoming patient calls, recording messages, and forwarding them to the doctor.
Providing insurance and payment information to patients calling for appointments.
Accepting patients and registering them.
Setting patient visit dates.
Scheduling the next appointment before patients leave the office.
Delivering forms to patients.
Ensuring work efficiency by adjusting the doctor's schedule.
Calling patients to remind them of upcoming visit dates.
Conveying laboratory results to relevant staff.
Recording patient history, surgical notes, and medical reports as dictated by the doctor.
Performing billing procedures.
Ensuring patient confidentiality.
Adhering to professional standards, hospital policies, and procedures.
Ensuring that repairs are made to office equipment.
Performing various clerical and administrative functions, such as ordering supplies.
Maintaining financial records.
What Do Medical Documentation and Secretarial Studies Graduates Do? What Are the Job Opportunities?
Graduates of the Medical Documentation and Secretarial Studies Department can work in public healthcare institutions, private hospitals, and healthcare organizations. In addition to hospitals, graduates of the department can work in medical software companies, ambulance companies, private practices, and businesses involved in the sales and promotion of medical supplies.
Medical Documentation and Secretarial Studies Score Type: TYT
Medical Documentation and Secretarial Studies Language of Instruction: Turkish
Medical Documentation and Secretarial Studies Type of Instruction: Formal Education
Medical Documentation and Secretarial Studies Duration of Instruction: 2 years
Department Head: Contact
Assoc. Rukiye BORAN 0(382) 288 28 03
Department Vice Heads: Contact
Assistant Prof. Gülen Oytun AKALIN 0(382) 288 28 10
Lecturer Dr. Maide YEŞİLYURT 0(382) 288 28 07
Lecturer Mehtap AKGÜN 0(382) 288 28 27
Faculty Members:
Assistant Prof. Ayşe Nihan ARIBAŞ
Lecturer Dr. Fadime GÖKTAŞ
Lecturer Seyhan İNCİ
Lecturer Nesrin UZUN
