Patricia Ireland, CMT, FAAMT, started in medical transcription in 1968 and has been a part-time instructor of medical terminology and medical transcription since the mid-1970s. In 1989, she was asked by Southwestern Publishing Company (now Delmar Publishers) to co-author the 3rd edition of one of their best-selling textbooks, what is now Hillcrest Medical Center: Beginning Medical Transcription Course, 6th edition, the textbook currently used in the GES Medical Transcription Certificate Program.

A working medical transcriptionist, Ms. Ireland has been certified by the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) since 1981. She's been President of her local chapter of AAMT, the Alamo Chapter. She has also represented the Texas Association for Medical Transcription as a delegate to the AAMT House of Delegates, and earned her Fellowship in AAMT in March 2003.


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Medical Transcription

GES 113 -- 240 hours

Instructor Bio


    Patricia Ireland, CMT, FAAMT, started in medical transcription in 1968 and has been a part-time instructor of medical terminology and medical transcription since the mid-1970s. In 1989, she was asked by Southwestern Publishing Company (now Delmar Publishers) to co-author the 3rd edition of one of their best-selling textbooks, what is now Hillcrest Medical Center: Beginning Medical Transcription Course, 6th edition, the textbook currently used in the GES Medical Transcription Certificate Program.

    A working medical transcriptionist, Ms. Ireland has been certified by the American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) since 1981. She's been President of her local chapter of AAMT, the Alamo Chapter. She has also represented the Texas Association for Medical Transcription as a delegate to the AAMT House of Delegates, and earned her Fellowship in AAMT in March 2003.


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