For students, not much.

I'd estimate from my own teaching experience that it will take them 6 minutes of transcribing time for every one minute of dictation time.  If you give them a 30 minute tape per week, that's approximately three hours of transcription homework per week.

For a real job at eight hours per day, 1,200+ lines per day is usually the minimum rquired.  (Which is why they don't hire newbies.)  People who do 200-350 lines per hour are very experienced, have the same accounts every day, and use a word expander.  It's not representative of the expectations from a student or newbie.

• MT class - Teach
  • For students, not much. - ex-teacher
  • I average around 300-325 lph. - MT
  • The average lines per day at most companies (SM) - Chickadee
  • i would say a good experienced average is about 200 lph so students maybe 100 to 150 lph. nm - MT
    • I think 100 may be a lot for brand new newbies. nm - Maybe 50 to 75 in the beginning....
      • I have trained 2 people from scratch, no medical background, no school, nothing and they started ave - MT

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On another unrelated board someone asked about medical transcription.  I mentioned that pay goes down instead of up because of offshoring reports and isn't the most secure job.  She came back and said she asked her teacher about offshoring and she said:  "They used to do that but they are sending it back to us now because what the clinics would have to do, is hire someone to edit them and then redo them so it wasn't working out.  They talk about it at every advisory board meeting apparently."  Hmmmm, okay.   

Just wondering.