Expectations for a new MT

• MT Frustrated - Tiffiny
  • Huh - Misha
    • Huh...What! - New MT
  • What school did you attend? - nm
    • School - Tiffiny
      • No it's not a "great school." - See message
        • Expectations for a new MT - SM
          • Expectations - Cindy
        • School - Tiffiny
          • Per your own words, you're having a hard time. - See Message
            • School - Tiffiny
  • I hear ya... - newmtalso
    • A good book for phrases is the Medical Phrase Index. $$$ but well worth it when first starting - out. nm Early Morning Oldie
  • I know when I was just starting, I was leaving whole phrases blank! sm - JoV
    • Thanks - Tiffiny
  • If you don't absolutely know it, don't type it. - ...
  • Agree with below, leave blanks, don't guess - OP Queen
    • Reports - Tiffiny
      • The newbies working on clinic accounts for me..... s.m. - An MTSO
  • Tough to say, but (sm) - me

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you are right when you say "getting a Medical Transcription service up and running from your home is nearly impossible?!?!"  From your exact words, it sounds like to me that you are wanting to start your own medical transcription service from home? Nearly impossible is a good choice of words. It seems to require a combination of perserverance, skill, intense networking and just plain luck. And there is a reason why "Everyone wants someone with "EXPERIENCE" only." I can't imagine a doctor's office saying, "sure, we would love to send you our voice files and depend on your untested skills for our patients' medical records...not to mention keeping our office running."  Physicians work very hard to take care of their patients. They can't take an integral part like medical records and just hand it out to any ol' body. They need someone who is VERY GOOD at their job, not only getting the records transcribed, but finding a file transfer method, troubleshooting, fair pricing, etc. Certainly fresh out of school you would not have those skills and it would be as completely unreasonable to expect any doctor's office to contract with you as their service, as it would be to ask the office nurse to do your appendectomy (on her kitchen table LOL).

You say, quite emphatically that "Working from home is my ONLY option right now." Working from home may not be an option at all. You can't DEMAND a job from any one. You can only see what's out there, beat the competition and prove you can meet the requirements. If you can supply what the market demands, you can get a job. But if the market is glutted with MT's with 2 years' experience, well, you are in a tight spot then. So your choices are: either spend months applying, try to get an inhouse job, spend months on an internship, or go into another job market.

 While I understand your feelings ("just paid alot of money to train for this, etc"), sometimes it's just not that simple. I am not trying to be discouraging, just honest-- and honestly, it's a very discouraging time right now in the MT field.

What I don't understand is how come so many newbies post here, saying they just finished their program and NOW they are finding out how hard it is to break into the field? Seems like communication between all of us is failing somewhere

When a new graduate or inexperienced MT applies for an online position and takes the transcription portion of the application, what are the companies expectations? Are we supposed to be 100% accurate, or do they allow you to leave 1 or 2 blanks where the dictator mumbles to the point of just not being able to understand them?

Do all companies have QA that will review the reports before submission? If so, as an applicant would leaving blanks count against me. Surely the most experienced MT leaves mumbled words blank. Just wondering.