It's impossible for us to know how much you have learned

Posted By: MT on 2006-06-26
In Reply to: Frustrated!! - Amy

You could test with as many employers as you can. If you don't have job offers from those tests, there may be a couple of reasons why.

1. You took a good course, but weren't ready for it as far as spelling, typing, and basic word skills.

2. You took a bad course, aced it, but learned very little since they taught very little.

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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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Nothing is impossible !
Hi,
I am in this field for last 7 years now and I find this field very interesting. I got my training in India. Now I got my own setup and people work with me. I got experience of doing almost every specialty, currently doing a big electrophysiology group and a radiology group. It took me 5 months to be an MT and I got the job proposals even before finishing my course, and since then I got everything I have now from this Medical Transcription. So, if u r thinking of doing it, go ahead. U can do it. Any help from me, just email me.

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That s/b difficult but not impossible. nm

One thing I have learned...
It seems that most people in this business are perfectionists, to say the least. Even when someone is rude, there is something to learn by the answers that they give. I take it with a grain of salt, because there are people like that in every business.

I flunk many tests at first, but I learned from each one - sm
that is what you must do. I used to joke that I learned more from the tests than I did from my course. Not quite the case but I did learn a lot from the tests too, they were certainly eye-opening some of them. All you can do is keep trying, what is the saying you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince, well finding a MT job is sort of the same thing, in both finding a job and finding one you like. Try again at Transolutions when they say you can try again (usually 6 months) and in the meantime apply anywhere and everywhere that you can. Good Luck.

I learned tips from my workmates and
other than that I made them as I worked. But you do have to really pay attention to how they play out. If you don't think about it and make a shortcut of bm for bowel movement, and then forget that's what you used it for, you might assume you set it up to stand for something else, and then suddenly you have a sentence that reads: "This 48-year-old bowel movement started having chest pains on Saturday ..."

That's exactly how I learned. Trained by people who knew
*what the heck they were doing.*

I remember my first job quite a few years ago and making about $2 an hour until I learned...sm
the account, got used to the doctors, learned how to efficiently research etc. I also needed to create my own expansion program as the system I worked in back then would not allow an outside expander. Keep at it and good luck, it will get better.