I would concentrate on your
Posted By: Me on 2007-12-02
In Reply to: Need some advice!! - Tracey
expansion program, making more shortcuts for yourself. Listen for his key phrases. You can do English phrases as well as medical phrases. You are doing fine at 5 weeks production wise IMO, but if you add another 3 hours of work a day so soon it could be hard on your mind and body. Personally I wouldn't add more work until you can get 1200 lines done in 6 or 7 hours. That's when I'd think about stepping up the work, but that's just me.
Stay healthy. Get your exercise with brisk walking, swinging your arms if possible (I know, most moms are pushing a stroller when they're exercising, but I'm afraid it must put their shoulders in knots!). If your neck and shoulders get tight, you'll have pain and get tired and start having headaches. Sounds like you're doing well with the work though.
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I would concentrate more on
the medical aspect of the testing than the Word part. Most of what you would need to know in Word to do reports is going to be as simple as knowing how to make a numbered list line up (Ctl-T), how to use autocorrect in order to insert "canned" text and simple things. Don't worry too much about formatting because they will give you samples to follow if you get the job. Most employers don't even looked at formatting when hiring because everyone formats differently.
Think more in line of HOW do you find something you don't know. What web sites are good to have noted in your favorite list...how to use Google for searches, maybe sign up for a free month on the Stedman website, free subscription to Monthly Prescribing Reference...how to quickly find a doctor's name and address.
Yes you should look through your terminology to brush up on that, as well as the drug list. I think Rxlist.com has the top 200 drugs on their home page, at least they used to.
Good luck. It sounds like a good way to get into the business.
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I'd concentrate more on not leaving as many
blanks since that seems to be more of an issue. The speed will come with practice. My very first day I did about 670 lines, no macros, no previous MT experience, no MT education, and I nearly flunked typing in school. I have been at this for nearly 20 years and I can routinely do 300 lph and sometimes closer to 400 lph, but not consistently, and those are proofed client ready lines.
I'm assuming you are working at home and if you aren't this won't apply, but if you are on-line many times throughout the day, work on only getting on-line to check your e-mails. If you can wait to send work in, write down all your questions and get on-line at the end of the day to investigate. If you are allowing yourself to be distracted by TV or household chores, make yourself work 2 hours before getting up. You can set a timer if you need to. Personally I find my biggest time waster is the internet. I get on to look something up and 30 minutes later I get off and I never looked up what it was I got on for, but checked e-mails again and answered them, surfed my regular sites, etc.
After you have gotten better about filling in blanks then work on your speed. I set the speed of my dictation up a bit and increase it a notch every few months.
If you get corrected files back from QA save them. Print them out and put them in a notebook by doctor. When I started my current position I had lots of experience, just not with ESL dictators and I had lots of them. I was overwhelmed because I had several blanks in almost every report and and I can usually go months at a time with no blanks. When I had the corrected reports to look at I was able to decipher what they were saying and couldn't believe that I didn't hear it the first go round.
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