Opinions wanted...
Posted By: MTing around in CA... on 2006-03-01
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I am an IC working for an MTSO. I have a few accounts. All of my accounts have always worked to where whatever is dictated up to 7:00 PM has to be done and back by 8:00 AM. Well, there is a new account that I work on. Apparently, it's pretty important to my MTSO. They have been very unhappy with other transcribers in the past and very tough to please, but they are loving me. One problem...
They keep dictating later and later, and my employer keeps asking me to have it back at the same time. I don't work at 10:00 at night, and I don't feel that I should be asked to get up at the crack of dawn in the morning. If they are dictating at 8:00 and 9:00 and later at night, why should I be expected to do a less than 12 hour turnaround for the same 8 cents a line?
If they dictate at 9:00, I would be happy to have it back by 9:00 the next morning, but the MTSO is still expecting that I will have it all back by 8:00. I feel this is unreasonable. I am doing it right now, but I feel like it is really cutting into my life-work balance a lot.
What say you?
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I have a masters degree in biology and thought medical transcription would be the perfect way to use some of my education while working from home. I took an independent study course in transcription. In this course I transcribed all of the beginning and advanced SUM dictations at least twice. I was almost ready to test with Medquist when my instructor disappeared. Other things were happening in my life at the time, so I put my hopes for an MT career on the back burner for a while. I intended to start over with Andrews or M-Tec. I was ready to enroll when my husband lost a job. Now it doesn't seem like a good idea to spend money that we may need to live on for an MT course, and I really can't afford the time it would take before I start to earn. I was thinking about doing a really intense review. Then I would try to test with as many companies as possible and hope that one would give me a chance. I know this is not the ideal way to go about it, but does anyone think it might work? Are there companies that will test someone like me?
Why would you take the opinions of posters you don't even know?
1. You have no idea who is posting here.
2. You have no idea if they are even MTs or not.
3. You don't know their definitions of success, their perspectives, etc.
WHY would you make a career decision based on nothing but blind faith in an ANONYMOUS message board?
Uh...excuse me...those of us with dissenting opinions
we hate being paid so little for it..and that is the fact. Years of training to make no more than 10-11 hour. that is a fact. I am sure there are the few fortunate enough to still make a very good living..but the MOST MTs and definitely NEW MTs will NEVER make a decent living working for an MTSO..UNLESS they get their OWN account.
Community college course or online? Your opinions? sm:)
Hi. I'm new to the board, and would like your opinions on which you think is a better education: local community college here which offers an MT certification course (3 semesters in length) or online with either CS or M-Tec?
I am self disciplined, but still may stay more focused if I have deadlines, and classes to go to. I'm not sure...
Have any of you found more value in one choice or another? Thanks in advance for your time/input! :) Anne
work wanted
Does anyone out there know of any at home entry level MT jobs. I just graduated and I have had 2 people call me to set up testing for a job. When I let them know I just graduated this month, they sound a little worried. Any tips or advice. Much appreciated!
Tiffiny
Work wanted
Is there anyone out there who will give this newbie a chance? JUST GRADUATED AND LOOKING FOR WORK!!!!!
Thank You
Tiffiny
work Wanted
Washington State!
That person just wanted the price!
Why are you so negative? All that person was asking for was the price of the course. M-Tec will not say that this is a job in which you can get rich fast. Everybody has their own story, and this goes for every type of job. M-TEC does offer top notch training. They also have a great reputation which will open the doors to a job as a "newbie." The rest is up to you. It is up to you how hard you study and how high your GPA is. Like in other jobs, the higher the GPA, the more opportunities you will receive. Of course you will have the learning curve in the beginning and might not make much money. You might only make 6 cents per line in the beginning. Anybody who is informed knows that anything is possible because so many factors play a role. There are great companies to work for, and there are companines that take advantage of their employees. You will find the same problems in the MT world as you will in other jobs. What is different is that you can work from home which save you time, money, aggravation. If you live in a rural area where there aren't many jobs, then being an MT, working from home, offers you opportunities you otherwise would not have had. If you do not like what you are doing, then maybe you need to get a different job. Why waste your time on a job you obviously do not like? For sure, you should not respond like you did to a simple question about the price of a course.
wanted to share something from my 15+ years experience....
When I first started out, I graduated from a business college. Nine months, five days a week, four hours a day of schooling. When I finished top of my class I thought I was ready. I struggled to find a job; not too much outsourcing back then. I begged a medical records director to hire me on, and he did. I literally was not ready for what was to come. Luckily I was mentored by a lady who knew it all. She was great. After six years at the hospital, I broke away and started with my own accounts. I have raised four children (youngest in kindergarden). I have been a team mom for baseball, board of director member for local little league, and never missed a school function. This has been an awesome profession for me. Some days are better than others as far as pay is concerned, but on average I am pulling $200 a day....not bad.
There is a book out there that might be of help to you new graduates. It is called The Medical Phrase Book. That book helped me very much. The other thing that really works is using a telephone book A-Z to jot down new meds and words you learn.
Good luck to all of you.
I felt I had all the support I wanted when I needed it.
However, you need to remember that the course is self-study. You need to be prepared (and I think you are) to work mostly on your own because that is how it will be once you graduate and get a job. I think you will find that you do not need to contact them much, as that is the way their course is designed. Take advantage of the online student group they hold weekly, post on their message boards, and involve yourself. You get out of it what you put in. :-) I think you have the right idea!
I graduated in 9 months and had recruiters banging down my door to test with them. I was working within 2 days of graduation and never looked back. I still enjoy it after 5-1/2 years!
Sorry for all the typos! Just wanted to vent and got carried away nm
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I only wanted to work for a local company, not a large national. So... (sm)
I went to Google Local. Clicked on "find businesses". I then put in medical transcription in the "what" box and my City, State in the "where" box. I sent a resume and cover letter to every hit that looked good to me. I also went through the yellow pages and sent a resume and cover letter to every listing. I sent out more than 50 resumes.
I had about fifteen calls back. I had five offers. I accepted one. I have been getting calls ever since. In fact, I left my first position about three months after I got it in order to go to another company that was offering me more per line plus incentive. Yes, I accepted 7.5 cents from my first employer and she worked me to death and had some serious, shall we say, boundary issues. But I got my feet wet and in the door and was on to better things within months. I have been at my current position for about seven months, and it was a position I got based on yet another one of those resumes that had been received, kept on a desk somewhere, and acted upon months after I had sent them out.
One thing that no fewer than five of the fifteen callbacks said was that they were very impressed by my resume and my cover letter. One lady said that she was amazed by the number of people applying for jobs as medical language specialists who cannot even manage to put out a resume and cover letter that is free of spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes. So, do a professional resume and cover letter and make sure it's PERFECT.
I love my job and feel very blessed that I never experienced some of the awful newbie troubles I have read about here. If you have any questions or anything, feel free to contact me off the list or reply here and I will get back to you ASAP.
Elle
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