Isn't that similar to which came first the chicken or the egg?

How to get experience without a job and how to get a job without experience?  Do you have formal MT training?

• What about entry-level people? - Rebecca
  • Isn't that similar to which came first the chicken or the egg? - M.
    • Degreed - Rebecca
      • It may "encompass" transcription, but it's not enough to qualify you as a trained MT. NM - deb
      • The difference in education might - simply be the curriculum!
      • I hear ya... - M.
        • See message - deb
          • I agree with you wholeheartedly. - M.
            • I SEE said the blind man! - toomuchfun
      • Which is why we always suggest (sm) - Z

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I was given the opportunity to transcribe for the radiology department and soon was asked to cross-train to other areas of the hospital to transcribe.  Boy, did I learn a lot. 

I remember one lady (I was only 18 when I started working at the hospital) after 3 years of vo-tech high school training.  I used to get mad because she would make me look things up in the medical dictionary.  She forced me to use my noggin.  Once I got the hang of it, I thanked her again and again for being so hard on me.  There was another lady who worked p.r.n., but she had her own clients.  I learned a lot from her.  I think of her often when I "can't go/have to work" even though I work from home.  NOW, I know what she was talking about, but I have learned to manipulate my schedule to not miss out on anything. 

The internship I speak of is not the Jumpstart program but is a similar program.  I took part in a medical transcription course of study at a community college.  In order to obtain my diploma I must complete the internship.  I think it is a wonderful idea and provides experience, not to mention real world learning.  I didn't determine before I started how the clock hours necessary would be calculated.  I thought clock hours meant 8 hours per workday 5 days a week.  Wrong!  Lines typed are divided by 200 lph.  Yea, way longer than 120 actual clock hours!  That's okay but I wasn't given that information at the beginning which I think I should have been.

You learn things the hard way when you new and naive!!