I sincerely hope that you do not own/manage an MTSO.

• from nursing to mt - Sarah
  • Nurse to MT - lyssalou76
  • Sheesh! Let's Turn This Around, Folks! SM - SadKat
    • Can you start an IV, put in a catheter, change a colostomy - Wannie
      • Uh, you're missing my tongue-in-cheek point! :)) NM - SadKat
        • So you're saying.. - bips
          • The ones that I see above went to school and can't find - Wannie
            • Point proven again. - bips
              • I sincerely hope that you do not own/manage an MTSO. - Wannie
                • If I have been ... - bips
                  • I didn't find it rude that you didn't agree with me. That doesn't - Wannie
                    • I guess you did not understand - bips
                      • Yes, I understood perfectly. You came across loud and clear. - Wannie
        • Maybe you were trying to be funny. I don't really - Wannie
          • Not so much a "joke" as... SM - SadKat
            • I hate to burst your bubble, but some people can do it. - Wannie
              • And Bill Gates dropped out of high school... :)) NM - SadKat
                • And your point would be? He did exceptionally well for - Wannie
                  • "point" is that there's always ONE in the group... sm - SadKat
  • Nurse to MT - Marie
  • I started out in the file room of the urology office I used to work for. - tired fingers
    • Remember, - bip
  • nursing to MT - SA
  • check what is required before u - agj
  • Even if you could take it, you probably couldn't pass it. - deb
    • That is an ignorant statment...I am living proof!! -sm - jenn
      • Being a transcriptionist is much different from being a nurse, - deb
      • response to jenn - sm
    • I went straight from being a nurse to doing MT work with - Wannie
      • One thing to remember - bip
      • You need to be trained sm - bip
        • I had no training but - Rachel
        • i thought this was for the new MT, not the MT who knows everything in the entire world.. - zzz
        • P.S. - I also know that sentences always start with capital - wannie
        • QA says my work is right. The seasoned MTs who trained - wannie
          • criticize - bip
            • My 2 cents. - You also had an incomplete sentence
              • i completel agree! - Vanessa
              • Yes,and - bip
                • My point is you need to get over yourself. - No one is misinformed.
                  • THANKS! Wish I'd said that! - Rachel
                • And i'll bet a lot of them have CMT behind their name. nm - nm
                  • You're probably right lol... - Bip
                    • That's exactly how I learned. Trained by people who knew - Wannie
                      • It's not about you. - bip
                        • Actually from what - Rachel
                        • She can also take the classes and then she may or may not - Wannie
            • also - bip
              • You might also want to refer.. - bips
                • Did you not have anything left to learn when you finished - Wannie
              • Common sense... - bip
                • I work for a national. Never took any classes. Got - Wannie
              • Someone (probably your - Rachel
              • Would you not be upset if someone that you didn't know, - wannie
                • Heck yes! Tell her like it is!! - SM
                • I did not beat anyone down. sm - bip
      • Nursing to MT - GC from NC
      • You are the exception to the rule, isn't fair to make people think ANYONE can do it. nm - deb
        • Actually she is not the - Rachel
        • I didn't indicate that anyone can do it. I simply - wannie
  • From the sounds of the gripes on this board anyone - in the medical field has a good shot of doing this
    • I can't say I agree with - Z
      • I did it. Believe it or not, in nursing school, we also were taught - wannie
      • nursing to MT is - Wendy
  • Heck no! Your nursing definitely helps in this job, but you still need - MT training. Expect a BIG pay cut! nm
    • I make 2-3 times what I made as a nurse. nm - wannie
      • MT on the side - Michelle
    • I make more as an MT than I did as a nurse... - jenn
      • You are blessed, for sure! :) nm - Life Is Good!

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Even transcriptionists with a lot of experience have to leave blanks, which is an important part of this job because you should NEVER EVER guess.  There is such a thing as an "educated guess" and context clue guessing, which I have done, but I have a lot of experience and still there are times when I just cannot fathom what they are saying or have never heard of that term.  That is why this board is a very good tool.  I wish I had known about it earlier in my career.  I have learned so much from simply reading.  As a matter of fact, I learn something new everyday.  By the way, welcome to the world of medical transcription.  Enjoy the ride because it goes so fast!    

I really hope someone chimes in with the answer to your question but I wanted to comment that I have heard nothing but positive reviews for MTEC and the reviews have been mixed, but leaning towards the positive for Career Step.   There are some CS students and alumni that will defend their school tooth and nail that it is not a second class stepchild to MTEC, and some that feel that MTEC (or Andrews) would have been a better choice. 

I had a friend who could not afford the down payment for Andrews, and either could not or did not want to try to get the Sallie Mae loan for MTEC, and I steered her towards the CS program at Everett CC because she had pell grant and student loan eligibility. 

You might want to ask some national companies whose grads they hire.  I asked a few (you could certainly ask more than I did, and I recommend that), and one listed a few schools I had not even heard about up to that point. 

It seems that the companies have some thing going on with CS because many of them have a link to request training info from CS.  Not a guarantee of employment by any stretch but worth asking what that is all about.  (hopefully not just about getting money from CS for advertising and referrals).

If it were me I would choose MTEC over CS.  But my decision is made - I chose Andrews over both of them and as soon as I can bring myself to send in the $1500  down payment(its just a scary amount of money to plop down), I am doing it!

I just finished a dictation that the dr. cancelled 20 seconds into it because he "already did it on EMR".

Acct still has a large volume of work, but I wonder if they are easing into EMR.

Has anyone else started to run into this?

I work for a service so at least this one account is not my only source of income, but it does provide a lot of work.

Keeping fingers crossed.....

I got this by typing "set font" into the help area:

Hi All!

I am a newbie. I haven't even officially graduated yet. I attend a school that has been called a 'matchstick school'. I have figured out why there was so much negativity about my school. The students are only required to do 20 (GASP!) transcription assignments throughout the course. However, the CD we are given to work off of has over 100 dictations. I would not be defeated by this school! I not only did the required assignments, I worked my way thru the other 100 in my own time.

Well, this weekend I found a website that lists 137 transcription companies located in the USA. I wrote my resume, omitting the name of the school I attended. I also listed all the transcriptions and specialties I worked on. I listed the amount of time I spent working on these as experience. Then I wrote up a cover letter expressing my desire and drive to work for a great, solid company. I sat at my computer over the weekend and went down the list of the companies. I emailed EVERY company on there with my cover letter and resume. By Sunday night I had a request to test with a company. I tested with them Monday afternoon and by Monday evening I had a job offer. They have asked me to start tomorrow. I also have 4 other requests to test with different companies sitting in my inbox. This amazes me because I have not even officially graduated yet!

Please do not mistake this for bragging. I have worked very hard and have been extremely discouraged over the past several months. I have sent out over 100 resumes and have had my fair share returned stating I do not have enough experience. During my downtime I worked thru all the dictations my school offered. I also found a website that helps improve typing speed. So for all you newbies, do not give up. When you are not job searching, practice your transcribing, even if it is one you did a hundred times before.

I hope this gives some fellow newbies some hope.

Hey ya'll!

I just want to give a little hope to fellow newbies out there! I have finally found my first job!

I started searching at the beginning of the semester, and now, a week before graduation, I have finally gotten my first position!

It takes a lot of hard work, determination, begging, crying, giving up, starting again, crying some more, and networking, but it pays off in the end!

So please, don't give up! Test, network, practice, make phone calls, apply for positions, knock on doors, pretend your sick so you can get some one on one time with your doctor, and most importantly, pray! You will get there!

Good luck everyone! I hope this gives ya'll a little boost! I know how frustrating it was, but you'll forget all about that when you finally get a "yes" from someone!

I'll be praying for all of you!

that I had to remove were made by experienced MTs and were very ugly in nature.  Nichole came here and asked for help and when she was ridiculed only then did she retaliate.  I posted a Sticky above about helping incoming new MTs and not treating them like they are trash.  I would ask all experienced MTs to please follow that advice or don't post at all.

Thank you,

Administrator

Forgive me for being so ignorant of the abbreviations, but what does MTSO stand for?

Thanks.

anymore.  When you are competing with single-digit line rates from off-shore companies you can no longer charge 18 cpl.  In most cases it isn't corporate greed, but trying to be stay afloat.  Medical expenses are through the roof and everyone is looking for a way to cut expenses and MT is one of them. 

I agree that companies that went offshore long ago did it for greed, but now it is mostly for survival.

People go into this business lured by working at home and making $40,000/year.  They don't investigate to see how realistic that is.  They go to one of the cheaper schools because the better schools are too expensive, yet the cheaper schools are pretty worthless and don't equip you to work as an MT in the real world.   If potential MTs would do their research on the front-end they wouldn't go into this field to start with. 

Could someone tell me what MTSO stands for?  May be a dumb question, but I wont know if I don't ask. 

Thanks

Not only can they be overwhelmed with trying to handle the new work load, but they have to sort through resumes, interview and hire someone, plus paperwork. So if they do have more work, this just adds to the workload. I dread bringing on someone new because it is such a huge amount of work - that takes away from getting the work at hand done in a timely fashion. So patience is good, I'm sure they know you are there, but maybe just keeping their head above water...

Accepts the people who demonstrate a good understanding of the importance of use of proper grammar and rejects those who don't.  She probably feels sorry for those who do not understand this and appreciates those who do.

She didn't get where she is by starting out with a lack of common sense.  That's something you have or you don't.  No gray area or inequality about that issue as I see it.

I was a newbie once too.  We are were.