My training was good. It was about an hour long and then I was sm
Posted By: New KS MT on 2007-11-07
In Reply to: what training? no training for me, first day they Tried to give me 2 ESL.... - they tried; they did not succeed; be careful with
working. I love Keystrokes and I love the account I am on. Perhaps the account you were on had 2 ESL doctors come up first. The account I am on in first in, first out, so there are days that I get mostly ESLs and days that I get no ESLs.
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they did not come up first. An hour of training is not really training.
nm
I think it is $12/hr and it was 4 hours + 1 hour training, 2 days. nm.
nm
Companies that have training for new hires - do most pay by hour during 1-2 weeks? any info? nm
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Yup, still have to travel to NJ for a long training
course! Forget about it!!
How long did you wait for training at Transcend?
Just wondering what the typical time frame is from install to training?
web site says MT-s go through a 28 week training process. That's a long time!
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You're supposed to get 12 hrs of paid training even though it doesn't take that long to learn
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Yes, and make sure the training is good, and
if you are going to Meditech, make sure your word Expander will work and it is a good spell checker. IMO
I have actually used Dragon 9,0 before, and with good training,..
it was not bad. The discussion, though, is about what MTs get from clinics and hospitals not from training your own VR software.
When I was trained, I was told the system learned from what was typed in, and I really did think it should work as well as the Dragon software. The fact is, it simply does not.
From what I have seen, there are a lot of reasons for this, but mostly it is that each MT's style varies so the software cannot really learn 1 single way of doing something. Along with the complexities of whether a word is a heading or part of a sentence, when giving a number is not starting a list but the size of a suture, and the general ability to comprehend the ESLs on the system, you do very often end up with an illogical mess.
There also seems to be something about how the report is processed by the VR system. I can get the same doc (one that does routine colonoscopies), and one report can be mostly formatted and need minor corrections, and the next identical report can be 1 long paragraph needing quite a few corrections.
The last thing I noticed is that the VR system really does not learn. After a full year of doing VR, it still cannot get the names of the hospitals correct. These are only ever spelled one way, so there is no reason that it keeps happening over and over if the system is able to learn and improve.
This was definitely not my experience with the Dragon software, but it is the mess I trudge through every day. I definitely wonder how my platform can originate from the same company and the 2 products be so different.
Spheris pays for training. It used to be pretty good. Don't know what
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Good grief its just 1 hour more a day
If one more hour a day is really going to kill you, well, I feel bad for you.
I think the entitlement issues I'm seeing here are from long-time employees that are used to having things a certain way, and any change sends them up the wall. But try to put this in perspective when you look at the chaos that other people are going through at other companies.
Seriously, working 40 hours to get benefits is pretty much universal in all industries. Its not as unreasonable as y'all are making out. When we acquired Chartmatrix, its what THEY were working to get benefits. This is another leveling of the playing field that came with the merger.
I think though, that in this economy we are lucky to have jobs. If our employer has to do away with a few perks, it beats a layoff or having the company close. It certainly beats having our insurance become unaffordable. I have no axe to grind because I still think Webmex is paradise compared to some of the places I've been.
Looking for IC with 24-hour turnaround and good accounts....
Any recommendations?
$7/hour is pretty darn good, I was making
the MT inexperience, as the inexperienced is all they are able to hire. Seasoned MT's know better than to go there.
Is $15.00 an hour good pay for pathology transcriptionist at a LabCorp
with bennies, working in-house?
12 hour window on my accts - pay for acute good. (sm)
Work flow steady, weekend and shift differentials, OT offered at times.
I think things are different for some people depending on the TAT and specifics for their accounts.
Talk to a recruiter, they can give you much more info.
Is $15.00 per hour with excellent benefits good pay for a pathology transcriptionist
There is an ad in my local newspaper for this position, and I am considering applying. It doesn't mention anything about incentive, so I doubt that there is any, but the way the transcription industry is going, I think this may be my best shot for the next 15 years. As I turned 50 yesterday and looking to retire at 65. They have pension plan and 401K with match, long and short term disability.
MDI-MD hires statutory employes, 24-hour window, and good pay. nm
Good luck. 
Are you telling her to work for $5 an hour? That is not healthy or good advice nm
nm
Their training schedule kind of got backed up and so far the only training..(sm)
I've had is one short Bayscribe session. But I extended my 2 week notice at Medquist and I have until July 17 now to get some training in at MDI and do some reports to get familiar with the platforms. I'm looking forward to it!
I heard pay is good, but you have to pay for long
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I can't say enough about their training team. Excellent training!
The people at Medware are all just great. I wish I would have joined the Medware family sooner! They are very flexible and caring!
do you mean company training or med transcription itself training?
nm
As long as you don't need benefits, good place.
nm
Seems like the good ones are staying a long time
I know many who have been there 2, 3, and some 4 years. Volumes are up right now, and we've had several new accounts go live in the last couple of months as well.
I have been with co for a long time. I have it pretty good, but new
xx
Anyone ever start a job and no long afterwards realize it was not a good
fit and feel stupid quitting right away within a month or two.
Interesting and long, good money makers! nm
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I love the K. Long reports, good lines.
nm
From what I remember not very long. They are flexible, pay is decent, good dictators,
I have never had any problem with them.
may be good now, wait until they Global your account, too. I left there long ago, happy I did. nm
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think, people! If she does 250 lines/hour, same docs daily, will make $15/hour
nm
Not just this week, a long term problem. Nice people, good benefits, but
nm
Good Company, but yes very strict supervisor or mine was anyway! As long as you meet the deadline
you are safe! They were strict when I was with them though
Short cuts go a long way with ortho. A good speed typing engine will
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100,000/year - no way. I charge $35/hour and work 10 hour days - sm
AND I DO NOT CLEAR $100,000/YEAR.
what's not to believe - I said that I charge $35/hour and work 10 hour days AND DO NOT MAKE - sm
I DO NOT MAKE $100,000/YEAR
try READING the post.
$35/hour x five 10-hour days = $1,750 gross/week.
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$20 an hour is not even average for radiology. You should not make less than $25-30 per hour. sm
I work for Keystrokes and have for 3 years. I average 25 reports an hour, which is $31.25 an hour. I have 401, health insurance, direct deposit, life insurance. My lead tells me I'm wonderful when I talk to her, but I do not need a daily pat on the back.
I also have a good friend who works for them on a clinic. She only makes 0.08 per line but does 300 lines an hour, which is $24 an hour, again higher than your $20.
I don't think we're selling ourselves short. There are companies out there that are good to work for, 6 or 8 of them that I know of personally. Don't settle for $20 an hour.
what training? no training for me, first day they Tried to give me 2 ESL....
nm
Well if I could do 500 lines per hour, I would be making 35.00 an hour. sm
nothing to sneeze at. More than fair for having a 2-year degree. Come on people, we are all acting like we expect 6-digit incomes! Whatev!
I think they would. Those are good days for 10-hour days. sm
I have a set schedule but it is Tues-Sat and it works well for me. It wouldn't hurt to ask!
No problem :) No matter how long, it is too long for me - I am broke the day after payday. Kids wi
do that to you!
I know that they have worked very hard to make sure that checks are never late and I can say that in the past two years, I have had one problem (2 days late) and in the past 18 months, they have all been on payday and perfect.
I know that there are a lot of hard feelings in MT in general. I also know firsthand (and I am not mgmt) how hard KS has worked to get things going good.
I would not want to walk in an MTSO's shoes for any amount of money, but that's just me. I like to finish my work for the day, forget about work when not working and get paid on payday. I never want the other things that go with mgmt or owning a company of any kind :)
They definitely rip you off with your line count. Figured this out long ago and quit long ago
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If that's $9.50 an hour, that would be just under 6.5 cpl at 150 lines an hour. nm
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Are there any QAs out there that are getting paid by the hour at 15+/hour? If so, where are you and
how are the work conditions/requirements/benefits,etc?
For example, I count every hour on the hour with my job
and while I was posting here and also checking email in between I averaged $22 an hour for 2 hours, not bad for someone who is a) slow or b) does not have a lot of time in transcription work; therefore making me a prime candidate for VR.
What really sucks is that I looked for a LONG, long time -sm
before joining DRC - wanted a highly reputable, not-too-big co. that was LOCAL, and that treated its MTs humanely. I'm very happy with DRC & had planned to stay with them permanently.
Long, long history of not paying...and
similar posts have been made here in the past few months. Everyone thinks they will be different, and then they end up coming back here to warn others that they don't pay.
The best co. ever! Good work, good people, good pay, good bennies.
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They did go through it on your first day of training.
Check your email attachments again. Call the HR person or the trainer on her toll-free number, and they will explain it to you again. Posting and venting here won't do anything for you.
training
Training was good. It is what happens after the training that is not so good. Why do they not read what people post on their own portal. If they would just do that they would see what they need to change.
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