No ESLs on my account, but they're not hiring.

• Chiropractic - BCurtiss
  • Even if you so happened to start out with no ESLs, - missyMT
  • No ESLs on my account, but they're not hiring. - nm
  • As to the ESLs, nope, you can't. They're everywhere, especially as - our medical "specialists." NM

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do this, but generally you don't abbreviate diagnoses, but using cm and mL are okay, just don't use CHF instead of congestive heart failure.   In the body of a report it is acceptable to abbreviate, but you should really transcribe as dictated.  If the doctor dictates CHF then type CHF, if they dictate congestive heart failure than type congestive heart failure. 

some time.  If you tend to have the same ones regularly it really helps.  What I do is, if I have blanks I just mark a blank and continue the report.  When I finish the report I go back and relisten and I am usually able to get the blanks because I have figured out the accent.  If you get QA back make copies of the reports for future reference.  If you have a couple of reports by the same doctor and don't have to send them in immediately, sometimes you can pick up something in one report you didn't in another and you can go back and fill in.   Getting up for a short break does help, also taking a deep breath and closing your eyes while you replay the dictation helps.   I have dictators that I just cringe when I see them come up, but I just take a deep breath and just jump in.  If I have the right frame of mind I find that even the difficult ones tend to go better.  If I'm tired and frustrated I chose another dictator that isn't so bad and come back to the bad ones.  I download via internet so I know who I have and I can do them in any order - I'm not cherrypicking.  

I have had new ESL dictators and I swear they aren't speaking English and it can take me a couple of sentences to figure anything out and then I go back to the beginning and I can do it better then. 

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. 

Hi I'm I guess what they would call a an MT newbie. How exactly can you get the 2 years experience that most companies require if they won't hire you without having any experience? It seems like every company on the internet wants a minimum of 2 years experience. I am just starting out in this field and would actually like to work as an IC.

Can someone give some ideas on how to break into this business? Who hires the "newbies"?  Please give some company names that may take on some new mt's

Hi Wanda,

I work for Transolutions and they have started hiring new grads.  They are a fantastic company in my opinion.

Cori A

I have a friend who has 1 year experience in PT but hasn't worked for a few years...does anyone know of places that are hiring for someone with not so much experience? 

 

Thanks...

I graduated from Career Step program and looking for a second shift position.  Does anybody work for a company that is currently hiring graduates?  Thanks for any responses! 

Oh, just relax...Of course I want MT's with experience - and as long as there continues to be MT's with experience that want work at a certain rate, they will be hired in front of a newbie. In the work place it is all about what the market will bear. Nursing shortage? Nurse pay goes up. Until Filipino nurses flood the market. Then nurse pay goes down (just as an example). All I'm saying is as long as there are experienced MT's who are willing to work for 6-7 cpl (and I get plenty of them asking for work all the time at that rate), then a newbie can't be worth the same. It's all about what the market will bear. Therefore, you have to give the employer something to make hiring you more attractive than the next person....which is what? I'm always surprised that a newbie doesn't take an internship or something- whatever it takes- to get that experience. Without the experience, your chances of being hired go waaaaaay down.

My own suspicion is that it's the MT schools who keep telling newbies to go out and try to get jobs at 6 cpl - sometimes I even get resumes asking for 8 or 10! If the MT schools were honest about how difficult it was to break into the field - would people sign up and pay the money? No. But they take the money, train 'em and don't tell them that training isn't enough. Then the boards are full of postings from newbies complaining about how hard it is to break into the field. Well, for crying out loud - I would rather work for free for six months and then be marketable than to get 0 work at 6 cpl for years and years, holding out for that one chance in a thousand that someone would be willing to take me on

And I recognize that.  However, when my employer reviewed my first few batches of reports, he was quite impressed and surprised at the quality given that I was just getting started. 

So, I ask again- what is it that makes AHP an inferior education to other schools like Andrews and M-Tec?  Do they not provide enough anatomy/medical terminology instruction? Are they deficient in practice report experience? 

The only thing I felt under-prepared for was how quickly the doctor's dictate in real life versus what I was used to in practicing.  Other than that, doing real transcribing was actually easier than the practice tapes I was doing because AHP uses a good deal of difficult foreign accents on their practice tapes.  The account that I work on now has no foreign doctors (which is probably unusual), but some of them are ridiculously fast and incoherent. 

I'm really not trying to stir up anything here or argue that anyone is wrong.  I truly am just curious to know why AHP is not a good school.  I have many people ask me about what I do and where I got my training, and when I tell them that I've read online that the quality of an AHP education is questionable, I have no reason to give.  Thanks!