Don't forget radiology offices in your area.
Posted By: Me on 2006-12-27
In Reply to: New Graduate Going CRAZY! - Brandy
Never know when they might need some part-time help. Or chiropractic offices. You might do other jobs as well, but variety isn't all bad.
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Doctor offices do pay well
My docs pay very well, on time, no bounced checks and appreciate me. So I disagree with you over this. Dermatologists do use transcriptionists as they have a lot of consults that go out. Evidently this office had to cut corners or they felt that another way was more profitable. This is happening in all aspects of business world/life and there is not much that can be done to stop it. We must use our expertise/experience in other ways and it is possible out there. I don't think that they will every replace us 100% and we might be typing in EMR's or doing voice editing but there will be a need for us.
Doctors' offices pay little or nothing anyway. see message
I've seen this happen before. It usually turns out to be a mess and they go back to a classic transcription system. As far as coding, they use a Superbill anyway. They don't need a coder. They just list the codes and check off the appropriate ones for each student. They don't get paid as well as if they had an actual certified coder, but they won't or can't afford a real coder. That's nothing new. As far as the transcriptionist, most dermatologists don't hire transcriptionists anyway. They scribble the notes in the patient's chart. Even if they use some voice recognition system and get poor results, it may be easier to read than the scribbled notes. I've also noted that doctors who do have transcriptionists who know what they are doing are not willing to replace them with a machine. Others are easily replaced. That's just what I've seen and I have access to small and large organizations.
check with local offices
I agree with the above poster. It may sound mean, and I don't mean it to sound that way, but a course through Penn Foster doesn't mean much to employers and doesn't even come close to the education offered by the top schools. I would try to start local if you can, get some experience in, then check out some of the bigger companies if that is what you want.
Don't forget...new episode of House tonight!!!!
M-TEC and Andrews are the two best. Forget about the approved schools ...
they approved Career Step despite the fact that it did NOT even meet their criteria!
Have you tried local clinics or doctors' offices?
I went to a local community college and decided I didn't want to work for a large national so I sent out resumes to local offices and I got a job working for a Nephrology office with great benefits. I can be done, just send resumes everywhere and test when you can.
Don't forget the Philippines, South Africa
Career Step has been training offshorees in the Philippines for over a year. They have a program in South Africa, also to take jobs from U.S.
Btw, Australia and Canada (where CS has training programs) are not really offshoring threats. There is some job interchange with U.S., but workers in these countries can not be hired for less than U.S. MTs.
Those numbers are brought down because they include MD's private offices
Physicians' offices and clinics pay next to nothing. That brings the numbers way down. Every MT I know makes more than that, at least after the first year!
what area are you from?
I live in California. I have been transcribing for 15+ years, and if someone local was looking for a mentor, I might consider. Maybe where you are at there is someone interested in QA'ing all your work. You could make some money to start but worth more than the money would be the training and experience.
Around my area
They post on their website and run ads in the local paper. A lot of available jobs are found by word of mouth. I would just apply to a bunch of facilities in your area whether they have posted anything or not.
I am also in the Dallas area (sm)
and am fairly new to transcription. I do have some experience. I have sent out tons of resumes and letters to companies, doctors, etc. and have not found anything. I have had a couple companies tell me they would give me a chance, but then I never heard from them again. I am not giving up though, I am very confident that I will find something eventually, and I know that I can do the work.
No In-House Jobs In My Area
Dont know where you live but in my area, there are no in-house MT jobs.
Are there any technical schools in the area?
Some colleges offer medical transcription. That would be her best bet. Get in the school (on-site), and then most will place her for a first-time job probably at a local hospital. Good luck to your friend. I'm not so sure these online courses meet the expectations once you've graduated. It can be overwhelming. There are companies out there hiring new graduates, but I just think the on-site instruction is so helpful. 
Training in the Atlanta area
Hi. I wanted to let you know about a training program in the Metro Atlanta area. We are a full service transcription company. We also offer a training program that we feel is unique. Our program consists of the normal training that you would find at other companies - medical terminology, anatomy, laboratory data testing, etc. What we feel is unique is our mentoring program/dictation training. Our trainees work on the same type of work that they would be doing if we were able to offer them a job. Each trainee comes in office 2 to 3 times a week and works on dictation. After each transcript is completed, a mentor/trainer then goes over the chart line per line with them correcting each mistake. Because of our system, we are able to offer approximately 90% of our trainees a job once they reach 98% accuracy. We found with some of the other training programs, the dictations that Transcriptionist were being trained on were not "real" and we were basically having to re-train them completely. Since we are in the metro Atlanta area, we only offer training to people in this area.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
check to see if there is a wireless tower in your area...sm
you will have to do some searching as they don't contact you-- you have to contact them-- but a year ago I found there was a wireless tower about 1 mile from my house. DLS for Direct Line of Sight (NOT DSL!) and sends a wireless signal to a antenna on my roof. Very fast connections and reasonably priced (I paid $300 to install and $45/month). Ask neighbors, etc. and watch for those funky dish-looking things on people's roofs - all pointed in the same direction. I found mine because my sister switched - and then found them on the internet. Perhaps something like "wireless internet service providers [your town])?
Have you tried local clinics or small MTSO's in your area?
That's how I got my first break. Good luck.
try to stick to ACUTE care. You don't want to find yourself 'stuck' in one area.
You were "blessed to find a private company" in your area. Most people are not so blessed.
And most companies will not even let grads of AHP take their employment test, because they know they haven't been trained well enough to pass it. However, the companies will simply say that they "don't hire newbies" and "you must have 2 years' experience" which isn't true, you just need a good education where they know you can pass their test and do the work.
Radiology
Radiology is certainly easier than working for a hospital, doing all the specialties. Naturally it also pays less. I think it's good experience to have because you can concentrate on anatomical terms. It can help prepare an MT for doing operative reports. But you can get behind in practicing drug names and keeping up with the new drugs.
I am doing radiology right now, and I like it, but many MTs don't because most of the reports are short. I have observed that many fast typists tend to like longer reports because they seem to rack up their lines faster.
Another drawback to radiology is that many jobs are being lost to technology. Therefore, you need to be so good at it that the MDs can rarely catch an error. If they have to do a lot of editing and corrections, they might as well use VR technology.
radiology
radiology reports are usually shorter than acute care transcription, but it goes deeper into anatomy and physiology. it would be best to start with basic 4 (hp, consult, discharges, ops) to become more familiar. it takes a lot of people about 2-3 years to even be really comfortable with acute care. good luck
Radiology question
I hear that Radiology is very hard, very specialized. Is this true? If so, why? If so, should a Radiology MT get a higher rate of pay?
MEDITECH for Radiology
I've searched the boards and don't see any real recent posts regarding Meditech. I am starting a new radiology account which uses Meditech. All I know is that I WILL NOT be using the Meditech program that uses Word. Does that mean it is DOS-based? Is that what MAGIC is? Are they other Meditech programs that use something other than Word or DOS? What are your average lines per day? I hear a lot of people copy/paste from Word into the system.. does that work for all Meditech programs? I would REALLY appreciate some info about this platform and people's average lines on it. Thanks so much.
Radiology Transcription
Hello Everyone:
Anyone out there doing transcription for Radiology? can you give me an overview of what the work is like? Do you think a "newbie" could start in radiology? Any information you offer will be appreciated. Thanks,
Is radiology easy?
I would really like to try it, but i dont know whether you will provide the wav file, then only i can say whether it is easy
Radiology experience
I just finished a home study medical transcription course that did not have any radiology reports in the practice dictation, but it did have all acute care. I am just wondering if this course did not give me enough of everything, or are others like this also? 
I started out doing radiology.
You may want to try the radiology portion since it is less intense and it's a good base, in my opinion. Others may not feel the same way, but I think you are better off starting with radiology as opposed to multispecialty. Best wishes...
Radiology training
I am currently a transcriptionist, cardiology and I am wanting to learn radiology. How do I go about that. If someone could help me that would be great.
Thanks
Forget "approved" schools. AAMT set the criteria, then approved schools that didn't meet i
Stick with Andrews or M-Tec (both of which happen to be "approved") but forget about any others, they are not worth it.
Don't forget your local papers and local Temp. Agency or Manpower office. nm
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Need a Job! Experience in clinic and radiology
I am a new medical transcriptionist, I have some minimal experience, I have over $500 into books from stedman and also $300 in computer software! I have every single thing needed except the job! Please I need someone willing to work with me, and someone to understand that I am looking for something LONG TERM! I have experience with radiology and clinic specially. But also a dabble of others as well.
Please contact me via email. I will send you my resume. Blessings, Marilyn
RE: Need a Job! Experience in clinic and radiology
Look on the job board for OSi who posted today looking for cardiology transcriptionists.
radiology is one of the easiest specialties...sm
after all, there's only so much they can say. Heart, lungs, ribs, spine - that's a chest x-ray for you. Very repetitive, if you've heard one, you've heard them all, except when you get into some of the really complex scans. If you could get about a month of training, you would pretty much be able to roll on your own. If you need the experience before getting the job, perhaps you can find a mentor that will let you listen in on dictation with the reports already typed? Great job for beginners.That's where I got my start 25 years ago. 
I agree, radiology is easy, but
there is a bigger threat of being replaced by VR unless you are so good that the radiologist will fight to keep you if needed. Most of the terminology is anatomical terms. They don't change like drugs do, so there are no excuses for getting anatomy wrong. You have to have a large English vocabulary, have great grammar skills, have a 99.5% accuracy rate, and not mind transcribing lots of short notes as well as some two-pagers. If you prefer getting 20-minute reports all day, you won't like radiology. Most of the dictators speak very quickly and efficiently, which is what I like.
Can't forget the AAMT Book of Style II! Gotta have it for style/formatting, etc. nm
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You can't give an average. Radiology reports
are typically under 10 lines and you can do 100 a day. I do Op notes for a hospital and can have reports that are 25 minutes long. I also have a lot of ESLs and if I have a day where I have the really bad ones or the bad American dictators I don't generate as many reports. If you are doing clinic work you would probably be able to do more reports than acute care, especially if you have the same doctors, because they you could set up macros for them. I generally do 40 reports a day, have done as few as 28, as many as 72, but that doesn't really tell anyone anything.
I do Radiology now, kind of fell into it but love it. nm
Radiology or Multispecialty test for newbie?
I have tested with a couple of companies that give the option of testing for Radiology or Multispecialty. I'm just wondering, as a new graduate, which test I should choose?
Why not try local MTSO's or local doctors' offices
That's how I started out when I first became an MT. I found a very small local MTSO who gave me a chance and now I work for a local company and have been there for two years. It might be worth it to take a look. I basically trained at the MTSO's office for about a month so there was no testing involved at all. Just learning along the way. Good luck whatever you decide.
It is hard to transcribe radiology notes as compared to usual notes?
Can a new MT without radiology transcription experience be able to do it?
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