I have very few applicants who can even do easy clinic notes,

• MTSOs, on a scale of 1 to 10, how qualified are - your applicants for acute care work? sm
  • Not just the newbies who cannot be trusted with acute care! - sunny
    • You are right - Me
      • This is encouraging. Thank you for posting. - nm
  • Out of 20 I hire, maybe 1 will be good enough to keep! - tired MT
    • Gee...are you at all aware of the degree of negativity you have? If your negative... sm - AnnaD
  • Most applicants GROSSLY overestimate their abilities - - no name, no state
    • Testing isn't free either - Me
      • Wow! Ridiculous! I've heard it all now. - nm
  • Are all the bad applicants necessarily newbies????? - just checking
    • Absolutely not. In my recruting experience many were old-timers having worked - for large nationals for years! sm
      • This newbie thanks you. - nm
  • Well, I am sorry to hear about all the problems - you're having with newbies! - sm
  • I think there are a huge number - QA also
    • May not be lying.. *certain* companies never bothered to check their work. - Amazing what I have seen. nm
      • Yes I think so too - Me
    • Here, here. Exactly my experience also, even down to the 10 year work experience. nm - Why do you think they pick 10 years?
      • When I became an MT supe many of my problem MTs - sm
  • What does this tell you? (sm) - QA'r
    • On mine, many MTs with 10+ yrs exp. SHOULD be on 100% QA! - Even scarier. QAer2 NM
    • This should tell MTSOs to value their REAL MTs sm - nm
  • I would have to say the MTs my company hires--sm - just QA person
  • I have very few applicants who can even do easy clinic notes, - forget about acute care
    • OK. Double wow. Same newbie here doing well. - I guess I went to a good school! - nm
  • You can't imagine.... - me
    • Amazing - newbie
      • How many lines are you producing a day? - You go girl!
        • I produce around 1000 lines per day... - newbie
          • That will change - once you start - NM
          • Good for you; you're a natural born MT and I wish you well. nm - Sadly, I think you're a nice exception from mos
            • Thank you so much for the kind words! - newbie
      • It's great you are doing so well. Are you doing all work - types, including ops, and ESLs? nm
        • Also Psych and ER....forgot about those! - newbie
        • Yes, I do everything - newbie
    • Wow. I'm a newbie MT, and I can do waaaay - better than that! - sm

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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. 

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The trend has always been that vets handwrite their own reports in order to save on costs, but that may be changing now that they are hearing other vet groups are using transcription services?  The company I work for only types veterinary ophthalmology reports, along with a few simple op reports.  The ophthalmology terms and medications are pretty much the same as those for humans, but the reports can be a lot more interesting at times, since the animals don't always cooperate!  Once you are comfortable with the terminology the doctors use on a regular basis and the company guidelines as to how the reports should be formatted, the work is a breeze!