I went to a community college and was hired

• Frustrated!! - Amy
  • I have worked at home since day 1 of graduation from M-TEC - happytyper
  • Jobs are going overseas anyway - - sm
  • Be careful when people have to write you off the board - Caution
  • Sent you an e-mail - POT
  • On site work - dee
  • Don't need to go to the "top 3 schools" - Deanie
  • You can do it....keep trying!!! - IndyMT
  • Don't give up... - Jeannal
    • Love, love, love your story! nm - take that, top three
      • Yes! Let's encourage lack of education and bumbling into jobs - CMT
        • Education comes in other ways than only top 3 schools - LL
          • Being a paramedic is something to be proud of, but nothing to do with MT - Apples and Oranges
            • The insinuation was that anyone without formal training was bumbling... - EMT-P
              • Years ago none of us needed training and there were no schools - Wouldn't try that now though
                • There's some MT's that can't even figure out - No schooling
                  • Why doesn't someone give some good reports on other schools - MT
                    • They are probably all busy working! LOL - nm
                      • Of course! That must be it. LOL - :)
        • So thank you for saying Spheris employees are bumbling. That was nice. - Jenna
          • Who said anything about Spheris? The message was about accidentally getting into MT - MT
            • Maybe you should read before you post. - Patti
            • Jeanna did. And you said "let's encourage bumbling into jobs.." - MaggieDay
  • It's impossible for us to know how much you have learned - MT
  • I went to a community college and was hired - sm
  • You do not have to be a graduate from one of the "top three schools" to get a job!! sm - Tired of hearing about top 3 schools
  • Ten thousand dollars? On an MT education? - I seriously want to know about that.
    • cost - Amy
      • What type of education did you get? What did you study? - My BA degree didn't cost that!!
  • Breaking into the industry! - Brandy
    • Don't give up!! - NC Newbie

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3 terms, September to June, got a certificate in medical transcription. I then went an additional term and picked up a medical office specialist certificate and also took some coding classes and passed the coding test that same year. Within 2 months I had an in-house transcription job (the first and only transcription job I applied for) worked there 3 years, did every type of report and all radiology reports, and have been at home for 2 years now. My current employer (which is a very good national) hired me without even having me take a test of any kind, just did the phone interview, so my community college certificate has not hurt me in the least. Good luck in whatever you decide.

Hello,

I am interested in taking the Career Step program, but trying to decide whether to go through San Juan Comm College.  I would like to know if anyone has taken the CS course through the college and if they felt prepared.

Thanks!

Hi Julie, I am a student in the medical transcription program at Everett Community College. I am in my second semester and have been able to get financial aid (that I don't have to pay back) for my first 2 semesters. They also offer Federal Student Loans that anyone can get. The program is great but definitly not easy! The instructors are also awesome. Let me know if you have any questions!!

http://www.everettcc.edu/programs/bat/medtrans/index.cfm?id=300&linkFrom=Search

I completed their 2-year program, and it was excellent.  The person in charge of the program is a CMT and she had another CMT working with her.

Chickadee

If you are *hired by a company* then usually you are an employee...it is when you score your own accounts that you can become an IC....but I'd brush up on typing skills, no offense.....it's truly detail- oriented work and you misspelled pursue and independent...and again, no offense....

I am a new graduate ... where can i get a job? All the posts want yrs experience! how do i get any ... if no one will hire me?

                          Thanks for any help

You didn't mention the name of the company. It could be they have a new account and it's not off the ground yet. It was a month after I was hired before I actually started working. That was two years ago and I'm seldom out of work.  I'm still on that same account. 

This insistence on Andrews or M-Tec makes me very uneasy.  I've been responsible for hiring and training thousands of MTs and even I don't know these two schools that well and I rarely see graduates from there.  I know they have good student support.  I do see lots of graduates from Career Step.  BTW, the Career Step grads are not well prepared for employment- not at all.  Not like you'd think from reading current posts.  Most of my past hires from Career Step failed to stick with it.  Only a small percentage could hold up- bad typing skills- but good on terminology.

Most of our employees (MTs) are either graduates of community colleges or staffing schools that we contract with.  If Andrews and M-Tec were as dominant as you read here, I'd expect the only good MTs to have come from those schools and I don't.  I didn't go there.  I've done fine.  I've never had a problem being hired in my early days as an MT.  I went to a community college and they used HPI publications.

I think this insistence on a "big three" is very misleading.  As a person who hires and trains, I know you don't need to attend one of these 3 schools to get a job.  Attitude has far more to do with it than book training anyway.  We'd much rather have a graduate with a poorer education who has a great attitude than the reverse.  The education can be improved quickly while the attitude is impossible to change.

I will just take your word for it that these 2 schools have great classes, but why all this drum beating when there are untold numbers of excellent community college programs and also staffing schools.  How about Mentoring Internships too?  There are lots of resources that my MTs have used to become well educated.

However, there are "schools" that are nothing but internet marketing machines.  It is obvious who they are.  They are the ones who sell diplomas for almost anything.  New students should definitely beware of those.  Medical Transcription is too difficult to learn from a mail order house.  You can't sit in isolation at home and learn medical transcription very easily and that is the big trap, IMO.  This is not like getting your real estate license and only needing to pass 1 test to get a job.

That's my view from my corner of the world.