Clinic notes. SOAP is the format,

subjective

objective

assessment

plan

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SOAP stands for subjective, objective, assessment, plan. Those are the headings that usually comprise a clinic note.

Hello,

Does anyone have suggestions for companies that hire for physical therapy or just general transcription/clinic work?  I've tested at several companies and did not score high enough apparently to do acute care, even though I did not leave so many blanks, I thought.  My problem was with the actual transcription; passed the other part of tests.  Really discouraged right now.  TIA--

I have been an MT for 20 years.  I have hired and trained MTs for a service.  There is a HUGE difference between clinic notes and acute care.  The poster who says she made the switch and didn't have problems is lucky and is probably a very good MT, who had a good base of knowledge to start with.  It can be done, but not in every case. 

Some MTs who work on clinic notes work for the same set of dictators every day typing about colds and aches and pains.  Dictators tend to say the same things over and over.  Most clinic notes are only a 2 or 3 paragraphs.  They work for the same set of dictators for years and even have their stuff canned, just pull it in and make the changes.

You put that same MT on an acute care account for a large teaching hospital and they may have a nervous breakdown, I've seen the meltdown, it's not pretty.  On an acute care account like that you may have all the specialities and subspecialties, probably 30-40 or maybe more, adults and peds, with all the dictators, anywhere from 5 to ??  And residents, let's not forget them.  And all the work types.  They are dictating DS, H&Ps, consults, ORs, clinic visits, progress notes, etc.  They are dictating about new procedures and medications that may not even be in reference books yet or that are experimental.  Some of those reports are 20-30 minutes long, 7 or 8 pages.

I'm not knocking the clinic MTs, but don't just assume because one does clinic notes, they can jump into acute care.  That would be very misleading and a total injustice to a newbie who read that and got into an acute care position, possibly setting themselves up for failure. 

specs.  Many times, no headings are made, things are not spaced the way the account wants it to be.

Do not believe the lies they are telling you.  I work on it now and it does not do what they are telling you it does.

when comparing a gross line count to a character count, but my goodness, .23 a line sounds like it cannot possibly be true.  My gross lines accounts don't convert that way at all.  One doc has a 1-inch margin and her gross line count is just slightly above the 65-character count because she doesn't do lists and keeps her PX in paragraph format.  If you are being told it converts to .23 a line, I would wonder if most of the whole report is indented half-way across the page.  Maybe you hit upon a gold mine!   Ask about the format...

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Transcription and their online school?  i have looked and looked through these posts on companies and can't find anything about them.

i was wondering if theyr'e a good school to go through.  and, if not, which online school would be best?