Be prepared for QA.
Posted By: Z on 2008-03-19
In Reply to: Thank to all - tgmt
It sounds like you are touchy about advice, even when you ask for it.
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I know many who are doing very well, but they were well prepared
They didn't get into it until they had a good education and they were ready. That often, but not always, makes the difference. Too many people got into the field years ago when you sort of "fell" into it by accident. No training. No education. No idea of how to do a good job. If the boss accepted what we did, it was good enough. That's not good enough these days, so quite a few of the people who worked that way got left behind. That's my opinion from what I've seen over the years. Also, you can't necessarily believe people when they say how good they are at transcription. People I know and like very much have a greatly overrated idea of how good their work is. Just because some employer has accepted it for years doesn't mean any other employer would. That's a big problem when people with poor work skills, doing a poor job for 15 or 20 years have to get a new job when the old boss retires or the hospital outsources. I'll stop here.
But someone who is prepared to (sm)
to transcribe medical transcription has taken a lot more than 2 courses - do you mean courses or in-depth programs that includes biology, pharmacology, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology I and II, and multiple English classes (writing composition, grammar and punctuation, and spelling).
On top of that, a good school will actually put it all together and give you experience with actual transcription, but not until all the above building blocks have been conquered.
If you haven't had all this from a reputable school, you have not yet begun to fight.
You will be prepared if you go to M-TEC! sm
I had no problem passing tests when I graduated. I have been working from home doing acute care work for 9 years now. Best of luck to you. 
No, I did not feel as prepared as I could have been. See message.
I have been working as an MT for a little over 4 years. I am a CS graduate, and if I had it to do over, I'd choose Andrews School or M-TEC.
Almost all of the books you receive from CS are written by the lady who started the school. The other 2 schools use real reference books that contain a LOT more. That's one reason the other 2 cost more. Since graduating, I have purchased quite a few of the textbooks used by Andrews and M-TEC, and have improved my education significantly.
Also, the other 2 schools have real instructors who go over your work and point out errors, and help you along. At CS, your work is "automatically compared" against the same report done at some unknown time and place by some unknown MT, who may or may not have done it correctly. All you get is a comparison between the two, it only shows the differences, like holding two pieces of paper up to the light to see if everything matches. Whenever there are differences, it's up to YOU to figure out which one is correct. The only time a real person actually looks over your work is when you take your final exam (which over 50% of students fail the first time they take it, and that statement comes directly from CS itself, not from me).
Yes, I did get a work-at-home job after graduating from CS. But I feel my first year of work was a lot harder, I spent a lot more time looking things up, there were a lot of things I would have learned at Andrews or M-Tec that I didn't learn at CS.
You're already ahead of the pack by knowing that you will not be prepared.
Unfortunately, far too many students coming out of some programs think that they will be prepared and that the experienced transcriptionists here are just trying to rain on their parade, which isn't true. We speak from experience, something those new students don't have, and some of us are in the position to see what kind of students programs turn out.
If you are inadequately prepared, you will be toast. My business is growing.
Please don't put us all in the same box with you. Some of us have nothing to complain about. We're doing well.
You may not like that. It may not make you happy. That doesn't make it any less true. Go ahead and wish the worst for others if it makes you feel better about losing your accounts, but you may have lost them because you aren't very good at what you do.
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