FAAMT
Posted By: Judy on 2006-02-20
In Reply to: I'm offended that you laugh about it - FAAMT
I have to agree. Even though I do not put CMT or FAAMT behind my name, I respect what the initials represent. I could have grandfathered in as a CMT way back as I started in 1971. It took six years before I really got enough skill and speed to really make good money. Whoever is laughing out loud at these credentials must not have put into their career what I have put into it, mastering so many dialects and specialties and working so hard at excellence. I wish I did grandfather in as I have over thirty years experience; the field is that difficult. Why should not a field that does legal medical reports on extremely high levels such as open heart surgeries and life and death issues not be a credentialed person. Perhaps the people who are laughing out loud should go to another profession, one like MacDonalds, of which I am certainly not putting down. I appreciate dedicated workers in all fields. Medical transcriptions are tremendously underpaid even at best, and highly skilled even at worst, so who could dare laugh at the credentialing system. They were called typists so long. They have fought long and hard to have the dignity that they should have always had. While it is very hard to sit and the work is tedious, I am so honored by my own skill that sometimes I sit back and think, I really can do this type of work. I have such respect for dedicated transcriptionists. I am looking forward to the day that we are paid on the proper scale. Then we will have completely won the victory!
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What credential is FAAMT? sm
Where I work there's someone who likes to sign her emails with
RN, CMT, FAAMT
It's kind of laughable. Should we all start writing our degrees and education behind our names?
No education? Feel free to give yourself an abbreviated title.
ASMS (Associate of Science in Medical Secretarial--I tried it without the medical first, but it didn't look so nice behind my name).
Anybody else think this is all a bit silly in our field?
What do the credentials FAAMT stand for? TIA
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It's silly and pompous to be putting FAAMT behind one's name.
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