You don't know anything about MY education

Question my actions all you want, but let's leave the personal comments out of it, okay?

I could give you a run-down on my "education" but that is not the point here. I asked a question about something I had not dealt with before, and asked how other MTs handle it. I did not ask for personal comments or slurs.

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in looking up a term encountered today, i googled to this page, on Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy -- quite informative and fun images....so thought i'd share.

http://www.takotsubo.com/

I paid too much for a crappy program that did even come close to preparing me for real-world medical transcription. 

What I am saying is this, take a medical terminology course and keep studying after the course is over, take a human anatomy and physiology course, and take an English or have demonstrated skills in language usage and grammar, and then get out there and get a job. 

You will learn more on the job then can ever be taught in ANY classroom!  Quite frankly, you could order a medical terminology text book and A&P text books and study on your own and be just as prepared as you would paying $4000, 2000, 1200 or whatever to a school.

And yes, I have trained and QA'd Andrews and MTEC graduates and they have sucked eggs just as much as the next newbie MT. 

I'm looking at a company called Future MT for online education.  Does anyone know anything about them?

The following was written by my son when he started 9th grade at our local high school.  My son is very intelligent and has always made high honors through school, but has never really been challenged.

He asked if he could home school and I told him I needed som good reasons that I would find acceptable.  He typed up the following synopsis  for me: 

"You have to get up way too early to go to the school where you only sit around for a half hour and then finally go into a classroom for 1^st period where your teacher is not prepared and doesn’t start for a good 15 minutes after the bell rings. Then when he finally does start teaching, he doesn’t teach over the material that we learned. He doesn’t keep track of the homework, barely makes us pass it in, and then tries to give us projects about things he hasn’t taught us yet.

2^nd period is study hall in the cafeteria with 150 students for 45 minutes where the students just talk and the monitors don’t care and the kids that want to get work done can’t because they can’t concentrate.

3^rd period is health. We have all known this stuff since 4^th grade and haven’t learned anything new.

4^th period is math, the only class where we learn something new every day, but we don’t really learn it, they just expect us to keep what we were told in class in our heads and then we have a test with only a one day review.

8^th Latin. Latin is fun to learn, it’s a good thing. It would help if the teacher knew how to teach the material. He doesn’t even teach, he just says the words in Latin but doesn’t give us any meaning and then wants us to translate it into English.

9^th English. English is my favorite subject. I really liked the English teacher I had, but she quit the first week of school. We have had 7 substitute teachers in a 6 week period and haven’t done anything in class, but just sit around while the substitute tries to gather herself.

10^th World Geography. Only good thing that I have actually come across about the high school. The teacher knows how to teach. Best I’ve ever met, very attentive, very energetic and he gets the whole class into discussions.

Overall summary of the high school is that the education isn’t the greatest. The kids are horrible. They like to pick at people. There are all kinds of new kids from the towns that don’t have their own high school. Everyone is always grouchy. It’s not a really friendly environment at all.

The sophomores, juniors and seniors don’t set a good example. There are only about 10 kids out of sophomores, juniors and seniors that actually are respectable and the rest just talk about partying.

While I am quite educated, this below came from a T-shirt someone bought for me years  ago because they said the T-shirt reminded them of how I have tried living life and succeeded and taught others the same.  (Think about it, have you not met some over-educated people in the life who haven't one lick of common sense?)  ENJOY THE READ!! 

SOHK

A good education is an essential part to success.  However, one must have a certain respect and admiration for those who have made their marks without the benefit of the traditional university education.  The culture that we call street has given birth to some of the most successful and insightful people in the world.  Many of us would not be here today were it not for the skills and knowledge we acquired and the dues we paid on the streets.  There is no replacement for the street sense and instinct.  There is no school tougher than the School Of Hard Knocks. 

Do you think that schools are getting away from teaching curriciulum in general and focusing more on teaching things that are on standardized testing?

My elementary school age child is already getting stressed because the teachers constantly remind them of the CRCT testing that will be given in the spring and if they don't pass, they can't move on to the next grade.  Each week we get memos about what type of things are on the test and that is what the kids are working on.  Good grief - it's only September and we're worried about tests in the spring and not teaching anything else?

 What about your state/area?

MT does NOT.  A flying monkey could become an MT with a little training.  Some people make it sound as if we're doing brain surgery here.  Honestly, we are glorified typists.  Anyone who thinks it's more than that is just trying to feel better about being a medical typist.  I get slammed all the time for this opinion, but the harsh reality of it is that this is NOT a difficult field to get into IF you have the proper skills.  Don't slam someone for being a nurse and wanting to transition to MT.  She has more education and certification in the medical field than we do.  As long as she has good grammar, spelling, research, and typing skills, SHE WILL DO GREAT!!!!  Why do people have to be so egotistical and negative on these boards?  We ought to encourage newbies getting into the field instead of telling them it's too difficult or they aren't qualified.  Hey, let's just alienate all the newbies and send the work overseas to people who don't have EFL skills.

There are plenty of "educated" boneheads out there in the world.  There are plenty of "uneducated" people who live in houses nicer than mine!  Educated people live in trailers and work in bars, too.

The term "trailer trash" refers to people who don't care for their property.  They'd rather be brawling and getting drunk than putting any effort into picking up the trash that's littered all over their yard and house.

I know all my neighbors.  I can show you homes of "uneducated" people that are nicer than the homes of the "educated".  We have several immigrants on our block that have no high school or college education.  However, they are the nicest neighbors to have.  They care for their property.  They are kind and generous people.

The undesirables in the neighborhood have a lot of problems that have nothing to do with their education level or type of house.

is your lacking of personality, and your [ pointing the finger ] attitude that you have.  You go back to transcribing all the YUK that we now get after VR skims off the cream and see how well you do sitting listening to that for an entire shift, and you may take off that crown on top of your BIG HEAD !! How did you find one big enough to fit?

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