I've thought of doing it too! Anyone remember the ROS School of Transcription? The lady that SM
Posted By: MissouriMT on 2006-09-07
In Reply to: Please help me with a crazy idea.... - mac
started that school was an MT working out of her home. She ran the school out of her home too! It was a distance learning program. She contracted with CMT Transcirption Service to let her students type some of their accounts. CMT in turn employed a mentor who would basically train the students, check their work, and give them feedback. Once they graduated the program, CMT usually hired most of them if they had enough work.
I know because I used to be an IC for CMT as a Mentor/Editor. Pretty good job at the time except once everyone got trained, there was very little left for me to edit. That's when I started thinking "hey, maybe I should start my own school!"
Now with ROS defunct, I was thinking about again. There really is a need for a good school created by MTs and run by MTs where the sudents are mentored by real MTs. But that's just me, I'm always full of big ideas, but can never really figure out how to make it happen, ya know? 
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I was 15, in 10th grade, getting ready to go to school I guess - a bit hard to remember - nm
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I remember our 1st microwave too...thought we were *uptown*
And the old Atari game...we were the only ones in the neighborhood that had one! How about the S&H greenstamp stores....don't know if these were only in the south or not, but I remember filling those stamp books up and going to the store...my sister and I bought a Billy Joel album...yes album! 
Which are the best transcription school?
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ever thought about going back to school?
I stay focused because i'm in school now and i'm working towards something. I'm just as scared in regards to job security, i'm the only earner. I'm not getting anywhere in this industry, I still live in an apartment. I am afraid to buy a house because i'm not sure where this company is heading.
Fun in Transcription Training School
If I had a hammer....... I'd hammer . . . . .
B--A--R--B! I know I would. Today I have the displeasure of being having to be trained for a new job. Since the Heartless, Inc. I used to work for traded me as an employee for 29 Indians in Bangalore who will now do my job.
Medical transcription itself is second nature to me, but the hoops and hurdles on how to get the job done with their company is what they are trying to teach me.
You know, this information she conveys to us is all covered in the company handbook under, "Redundant Rhetoric." That's under the subsection heading of "Everything You Will Never Need to Know."
I never do well with the whistles and bells of any new job. Our trainer has been systematic in this group conference call presenting the material. She is very windy in her explanations of "do this, don't do that, .... can't you read the signs?"
no, I'm sorry . . . I can't. She lost me about an hour ago.
Instead, I worry. I'm not sure if I have attention-deficit disorder, or irritable HOW disease. Maybe my give-a-flip is broken, but something has gone terribly wrong.
I can still hear her now, but . . . . I have not actually understood a word she said except, "Um, and So Um." I hope they aren't, um, going to test me on it, so um, apprehension is my middle name.
I interestingly study the flight pattern of flies.
She said, "That about summarizes it. Do you have any questions, or comments?"
'Summarizes" was a buzzword I was looking for. It signaled the end. Over! Finis! Yeah! Magically, I was awakened from my coma.
A dag-gone medical miracle, no doubt.
Well, it was either her words that woke me, or now that I think of it . . . . . it may have been the pain from the cat claws piercing my back as Buddy cat tried to jump up on the back of my chair. We'd have to study that a little more to know for sure.
I was relieved, but that did not last long.
Apparently, next up on her synopsis of fun-filled classroom activities was, "HUMILIATION," just before the part on "TORTURE."
She called me by name to reiterate what she just taught us.
I am totally bumfuzzled. I've been fritzenfrackered before, and this feels a whole lot like fritzenfracker to me. I hate fritzenfracker. My heart beats like a bunny at about 500 beats a minute.
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking it must be the same feeling skydivers experience the last two seconds before impact, after their parachute has failed to open.
A long pause of silence follows.
My mouth is instantly cottonball dry as I choke trying to speak.
"Mari?" She said. "Mari are you there?"
When all else fails . . . . I know it's best to just be funny.
It may not work but it's a ploy to stall for time so I can crash course myself and maybe come up to speed on what the heck she was talking about. Yes, I learn fast.
"Whew!" I said sounding out of breath. "I just got away! Sheesh! Don't worry, I'm okay though. Ya'll didn't pay the ransom did you?"
She said, "I'm sorry. What was that?"
"You didn't pay the ransom did you? I was hoping you wouldn't pay, because I knew I could get away.
Did I miss anything?"
Now our trainer was now stunned.
She was speechless. She stuttered. The class laughed.
"No, I'm just kidding." I said, "What was it you asked me?"
She said sternly, "I asked if you could review what we just learned here."
Since I didn't have enough time to fully absorb the information . . . . again, I went with funny and fritzenfrazzled.
"I could," I said, "and so, I would, but you know, um, I have to be honest with you here. . .
(I used her favorite words of 'and so and um' to summon some sympathy from her, so you know, maybe she would not send me to the New-Hire Firing Squad. At a minimum I hoped they would give me one last cigarette before they shot me. )
"And so. . . . Um when you started talking about the PDQ, the RSVP, and the ASAP, ADT, you lost me. I tried to pay attention, but mwah, mwah, mwah Charlie Brown's teacher, and I don't get it."
"What!" She said. "Sounded like what?"
"Um, you um, sounded like . . . . Charlie Brown's teacher." I said boldly and daringly.
As I explained it all to her, I imitated the sound to properly apply full effect, ". . . And the next thing I knew, Poof! Mwah, mwah, mwah. Hmmm . . . unconscious."
My fellow classmates laughed hysterically.
I thought, "Yeah, right, laugh, encourage me. I should be carrying a sign around my neck that reads, "Will work for laughs."
This is not funny. I'm through. This isn't the standup comedy club you know for Pete's sake. They aren't paying for funny here. I know, I'm as good as fired.
As the class continued to laugh, surprisingly the instructor apologized in cutest her baby talk. She said, "Oh my! I am soooo sorryeeee. You should have said something! Does anyone else feel that way?"
The rest agreed, "Mwah-Mwah, Mwah, MWAHHH!" They said excitedly in unison.
Realize here, that this woman has a very bubbly, yet violating voice.
Imagine if Barbie could talk. That's our trainer. The high-pitched, I've-been-in-the-sun-too-long voice. After a while, listening to her felt a whole lot like fingernails scrapping the chalkboard.
Apparently her sun-baked idea is that we are going to do it all over again.
Oh no, uh-uh. I can't take anymore. Uncle! Put a Fork in me, I'm done! Hearing her for one more minute is too much. Keep the training pay. I need hazard pay.
I have to do something different, because unknown to her I am a nice person until I've had enough. When I reach the point of total aggravation and frustration . . . . if a butterfly happens by and softly touches me I will grab a hammer to smash that &#$&*!. I know this about myself. I try to control it.
"Excuse me . . . . Barb," I asked interrupting her, "May I be excused? I gotta run and get a flyswatter."
"Mwah, mwah, MWAh?" The instructor asked.
"NO ma'am it CANNOT WAIT!" I said frantically. "This IS an emergency!"
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Transcription Relief Services has a school
with AAMT approval for offshore transcriptionists.
Why is the AAMT promoting this?
http://www.aamt.org/scriptcontent/mtapproved.cfm
http://www.transrs.com/about_us/educate_deliver.asp
POLL: Home School vs. Charter School vs. Public School vs. Priv ate School...
Pros and cons of each too. I have two little ones that will be starting school soon and I would like opinions on all. Thanks in advance! :)
I've never been to an MT school.
I've done this over 20 years and make around $1500 a week. I have never had a QA score less than 98%. I am very successful in this field, more than many, less than others.
It is fantastic that we have MT schools available now but that does not discredit anyone who learned this without those educational programs.
It is a job that has to be learned like any other one. Having the education from an MT school will give you a great start.
WHat will serve you better, though, is your ability to comprehend and actually use the information you are learning - whether in a classroom or on the job. If you cannot do that, you won't be successful in this industry regardless of whether or not you have been to MT school.
Unfortunately, this is not a regulated business. There are no standards. Even the AAMT does not really stand for the MT anymore.
The criteria for working for nationals and MTSOs are set by their owners. While most of those do tend to want to see an education from newer MTs, I don't imagine they would refuse to test someone who had 10+ years experience.
Even if starting out without a day of training, if someone can wrangle an account or 2 on their own and they do well enough on it, and they are paid for their work -- they are an MT, same and you and I.
Sounds like everyone is going to an extreme here...an extreme right or left of a line that does not even exist -- as long as one can find work and be paid to do this work.
"mean lady, ice lady, flaming monsters"
watch others feel hurt? from my computer? locked away? huh? you have clearly let your imagination run away with any powers of logic you may have had. sad.
You've still got that junior high school impression
that K-Mart is beneath anyone with any social status or money, hmmm? Retail managers make pretty good money. K-Mart was a booming retail store until Sam's Club and WalMart came to town, and Martha Stewart started her insider trading. They still pay decent money to their management.
I've thought about it---
It's just that I know people in the Whitehall-Twin Bridges area-- they have all been keeping their eyes and ears open for me. Also, I love the mountains. Eastern MT is a lot more flat, hotter in summer and colder in winter. I did like Miles City when I was there for the Bucking Horse Sale a few years ago. We'll see---.
I've thought about it
After having the taxes done, I was so disappointed. I made really good money, but after the deductions and then figuring the hours I worked, it wasn't so great after all. I'm tired of working weekends and holidays. I'm tired of the nightmare I go through every time I take a day or two off to get caught up.
I would think the benefits alone would be worth returning inhouse ... if you get them. Sick Leave. Vacation Leave. Retirement. Insurance. No more self-employment tax.
And no matter how hard I emphasize that I am not to be disturbed when working in my home office, there is always the interruption for "just five seconds." I'm tired of the lack of respect for my career and my working hours.
I say, "GO FOR IT." Good luck!
i've thought
-- if i didn't have to work at home -- that it would be "gravy" to do the dictating for a physician -- at least we'd know how to pronounce things correctly and what things are important to the MT on the other end. Don't know how lucrative it would be tho...
yes, I've thought of that ....
but it is a union position and their hands are tied, as per HR. My boss would give me more $$ if she could. Our sister hospital is NOT in the union and that MT makes $4 an HOUR more than me! Aagghh!!
Well, as for me, I've always thought sm
intense heed is very important, don't you?
Naaaaaaasty lady. Bad lady. Pooh.
(pouting)
LOL. Wow, you've thought about that one a lot, haven't you?
It's good to have a plan, I agree. I'd like to set up an SEP retirement account for myself because I know social security won't be there for me.
No, I'm just really tired of job hunting. My perfect job would be parttime with regular steady hours. I don't care if I'm SE or IC. It's not about only wanting to work when I want to. I know that the company needs coverage. However, I'd like to be able to take a day off when I'm sick instead of being told, "No, we need this work done. Nobody can do it except for you." I could even make up my hours, but IC seems to mean you're not allowed to get sick or anything. It just seems like you sell your soul to the devil just for the "luxury" of working at home. I'm so extremely tired from everyone demanding from me all the time. I pitch in all the time when they're out of TAT or someone else is absent, but I'm not allowed to have needs of my own. The more you give of yourself, the more everyone wants. I feel as if there's nothing left inside of me.
I've thought about it, but am usually too burned out ..(s/m)
.. at the end of the day to want to do more transcribing. But that may be a good way to get my feet wet... maybe filling in as a part time IC for someone who is on sick leave or vacation, so it would only be temporary.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Honestly, I send my kids to public school. They've never had a belly ache either.
must you be so full of yourself?
I've always thought the difficult dictators should be
weighted at the very least to compensate the MT at a higher rate for their effort. I think the cherrypickers, if they are not going to be stopped, should at least get lower pay for their reports.
Of course, if you paid 2 cents more for Dr. ESL's work then you'd have to set a limit to how many blanks could be accepted period or the cherrypickers would do them and leave nothing BUT blanks to get the money.
It would have been better for them to have never tried the "send back to pool" block than to let the complainers overrule and win. Sad.
Do you have a bachelor's degree? I've thought about
but the lack of a bachelor's degree is really the main weeding-out tool/stumbling block for me, darn it. I didn't realize it was such a major requirement for this type of job too ... as far as http://www.fdch.com goes, anyway. I thought maybe not having experience in court reporting/CAT machine transcription would be the breaker, actually.
Interesting, but.... (sigh)
I've always thought that podiatrists are trying to trump themselves up into something
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Great idea...I've often thought of doing some...
thing similar. After all, AAMT was started by individuals with an idea. Unfortunately the original, most likely that *good* idea has been long lost.
So, form a new organization. Set up testing. Issue a credential. Actually represent the American MT. What a concept.
I've Typed Insurnace Transcription, Also
I got a break from doing medical transcription for a couple of years doing insurance transcription, also, but this was in-house at a third-party insurance company. Most of the adjusters' reports were quite lengthy, but pretty basic. Nothing too difficult at all.
Don't understand why not. I thought I've seen other posts similar to this before. I'm not t
cause any problems, but as I work for DSG, so I'm naturally curious. As I said, I liked working with them both. Is it a secret?
I've done transcription for a Court Reporter using the setup described.
The pay was pitiful, $1/page, and the quality not all that great. Apparently, the good pay is going to the actual CR and not the schlub doing the "work".
I've thought about sitting in the camper or locking myself in the bedroom before,
but those wouldn't work either. I've been trying to take a nap all weekend due to lack of sleep and a nasty cold, but every five minutes, someone's pounding on the locked bedroom door and whining for Mooooommm!!!! Cripes, sometimes I can't even use the bathroom or take a shower without five or six interruptions. As much as I love them, my entire family has been driving me apestuff this past week. My office is currently in the living room with the phone, TV, video game system, stereo, front door, and most of the household foot traffic running through. That's going to change soon when we turn the old dining room into a private office with soundproof walls and a locking door. 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I've seen quite a few names, first and last, of people
mgmt on this board in the past, in similar situations, which is why I felt I could post this question. I certainly don't think I was not being tactful to the people I asked about, as I complimented them and enjoyed working with them. I wouldn't mind my name being on this board if someone said something nice about me.
I enjoy being alone at home, but I've got one home sick from school already.
One on one with a kid is nice, too.
This summer has been absolutely crazy. I haven't had a moment to myself for three months because all of my kids were home traipsing their friends through the house and yard. My husband switched his work schedule, too, so he's around more than usual. However, I like not having to do two loads of dishes and four loads of laundry a day. There are no toys or clutter dragged out everywhere. I can clean the house first thing in the morning, and it stays clean until everyone gets home at night.
I even got to relax with a cup of coffee and watch TV for half an hour this morning, something I liked for a change instead of cartoons or kids' movies. I signed up for an online class that I've been wanting to take. I can exercise without being interrupted. Yesterday, I went to the mall and spent all my saved up gift cards. I got some clothes, books, bath stuff, and a new coffee mug. My work gets done a lot faster, too. Call me nuts, but I've never had the luxury of being alone in the house for 14 years. It's kinda nice. I love my family with all my heart, but I love having a few hours to myself each week, too.
Except now the cat and dogs have been acting weird since the kids went back to school. They must think that I need someone or something to clean up after and correct behavior on. They're getting into everything and racing around the house behind me.
I did that with 2 kids with time mgmt and a high school girl who babysat 3 days a week after school
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The cost of running a private school or any school is expensive....
Why do you think public schools are so run down and can't find good teachers? Because the government and people to not put forth the effort or $$$$ to improve the educational system.
The School of Hard Knocks is the best MT school
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I use EXText with my current job and I've used at a couple of other jobs I've had. I've ne
used DocQscribe, but I have used Meditech, Cerner, Vianeta, the Precyse platform (I can't remember the name), Dolbey, and Lanier platform I think was called Cequence (?).
Out of all the different platforms I have typed on, I have liked EXText the best. In my opinion, it's very user friendly, easy to learn, and I really like ESP which is the built in abbreviation expander. Plus it is very easy to create your own normals which I love. My fingers literally never leave the keyboard because there are macro keys for everything. You can use your mouse if you prefer or learn the function macros. I love it. I think I'm more productive on EXText than with any other platform.
Agree, verbatim transcription equals poor quality transcription.
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I've thought about coding. My DH does medical coding and I think with an MT's medical termino
background and anatomy and physiology knowledge, a transition into coding wouldn't be hard at all. From what I can tell by looking through my husband's books, an MT would have to learn insurance regulations and legalities. We've basically got all the medical background down or we should be if we're worth our salt as an MT.
I even contacted AHIMA and found that the qualifications for taking the CCS or CCP coding exams are completion of the a coding program, RHIT program, or RHIA or related work experience. Transcription is part of HIM, albeit the red-headed stepchild of the HIM department, but a part nonetheless and so satisfies the qualification of having work experience.
The test is tough though. My husband didn't pass it his first time out and I think I read something like only 20% or so pass it the first time. So it would probably be best to take some sort of formal coding class, in my opinion.
Know AIM transcription system, never heard of Hull transcription. Are you sure
you are not thinking about DHull who is a recruiter for MDI-FL? They use the AIM system.
oil of old lady!
That's what my husband calls Oil of Olay, but what does he know. I'll be 50 this year (and proud of it) and everyone says I look great for my age.
QA Lady
So obviously you were never a newbie? You came out of MT school the "perfect" MT. I have nearly 3 years experience and there are still things I look up. One thing about MT work is that is it forever changing. Not to mention the QA that faults me for things that are considered correct according to the Book Of Style. Just because an MT is new does not imply that she cannot do the job.
Hey QA lady. You were all over the
GAB board yesterday and now you are on the MAIN board telling us once again how wonderful you are and how superior you are to the rest of us. GET OVER YOURSELF. You keep telling us how awful MTs are, so QUIT and you won't have to deal with it anymore. I would hate to have you as my QA person. I think we all have heard enough about how PERFECT YOU ARE and how worthless MTs are.
You saying that, I only wish the lady
had been here at that particular time. I was transcribing a physician who changes almost every other word, sentence, saying oh don’t put that in, change to thus and so and then says a sentence and then says delete that. I could pull my hair out when I even see his name coming in. I remember the first time I ever listened to a physician and like the person you mentioned above, knew he was speaking English and I barely knew the first word he was saying. I guess most think we sit at home just "typing" a bit and then eating chocolate chip cookies the rest of the time.
just an observation, but I don't believe that lady had PPD
I believe she was psychotic. It's hard to second guess a diagnosis, but as I remember she had been ill for some time; her problem was not really post-partum depression. Does anyone else remember the details of this?
I just imagine myself as a bag lady nm.
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Wow! Your one busy lady! My hat goes off to you!nm
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27-year-old lady:)
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No shopping but me, but did you see the lady with the wig?
NM :)
I wonder if you have the same boss lady as me...
She is terrible. She constantly acuses me of things I am not doing and then when I call her on it, I never hear any more about it. Never an apology. I have tried to speak with her on the phone but she won't and it's always by e-mail which is so frustrating. I have been slammed so many times I can't even count any more. I just never know from day to day whether I'll have a job or not because I never know what I will be accused of next. Oh the things we put up with to make a living in this business
Ask the Fruitcake Lady. sm
Just for grins and giggles. Still LMAO.
https://home.comcast.net/~jfmelnick/fruitcakelady.wmv
What a nice lady you appear to be..sm
In this world of nastiness, it is refreshing to see your giving post, your willingness to help a Mom out by taking care of her child because she is not able to currently. More impressive is that you are the *mommy* but are very open-minded and have full intentions of returning said child when the Mom returns back to being Mom.
KUDOS to you!!! You will be blessed and are probably blessed today!!! What a great holiday post even though it's not holiday related!! Warmed the cockles of my heart!! 
(((hugs2u)))
Signed: Another Mother in this life!! 
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Eleanor Roosevelt for me.
Lady Baltimore!!!!
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KYMT thanks for that tip. To the lady asking SM
about the macro, when recording your macro, you use the Control F9 to make a field, but when recording the macro you have to use your right arrow button to get out of the gray highlighted field and then continue with on creating your macro. When you are executing your macro, you would use the F11 button to move from field to field. This is essentially what KYMT posted, but her tip is so much easier!
Just wondering if there is a way to somehow "program" the autotext entry so that it takes you to the first field in the report after using the enter or F3 button?
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