She should visit the websites ...
Posted By: WorthEveryPenny on 2006-07-19
In Reply to: Can someone tell me what the online schools - charge?
and get the scoop there. She needs to consider what is covered in that price.
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Well, all I can say is the Board of Labor Statistics should visit our hospital where
an entire radiology department went to VR with Dictaphone's platform and within 30 DAYS were dictating their own stuff without ANY MT EDITING. Including the high-speed dictator, the Pakistani dictator who doesn't even WANT to do it, and the lazy slurring dictator. I think in light of my own experience, the Labor Board is behind the times. The statement below is no longer true.
"In spite of the advances in this technology, the software has been slow to grasp and analyze the human voice and the English language, and the medical vernacular with all its diversity. As a result, there will continue to be a need for skilled medical transcriptionists to identify and appropriately edit the inevitable errors created by speech recognition systems, and to create a final document."
websites
Do you have a web address for these companies?
Thanks
I'd look over the websites
and read everything there. Does the local program sound as in depth as the other 2 programs?
Then I'd talk to somebody at each of the programs to see how flexible they will be for you to test out of or have your English credits accepted.
IMO, all you will need to study is the BOS style guide for that part of your studies (and I suspect some of the rules are going to set your teeth on edge).
The websites will have a lot of information..sm
about price, what you get for your money, how long you can expect the course to take, etc. Any other questions can be directed to the school and they will be happy to answer your questions. Just don't let price be the only consideration. The value of the materials, instructors ability, and marketability should be considered.
Go look at the big MT companies' websites.
Many of them say they SPECIFICALLY take Career Step grads. Seems like you wasted triple the amount of money on Andrews for no reason.
You can get lists of shortcuts off of websites, from other MTs, etc. sm
However, you will have to tailor them to what fits you best. Some people use an "x" after an abbreviation like COPD to expand it, others use a ";", some use COPDi. You have to decide what works best for you, and then make your entries that way. Do a search on this website for Expanders or shortcuts, you will probably come up with some good suggestions.
A lot of it you will have to get from your specific accounts. I make doctor's names two ways, "D______" for Dr. _____, and ______m for ______, MD. I use the "m" for all initials, RN, PA, DO, etc. That streamlines it.
Each doctor has specific phrases they will say, put all of those in. Someone once wrote if a doctor says it twice, she put it as an expander.
The big thing is you have to remember how to put things in, so you will have to add things slowly and use them, or you forget they're there. You can also keep a list, although I don't. I don't use my expanders as well as I could.
There was a book out some years back, something about keystrokes. It was very popular. It gave a lot of tips on setting up shortcuts.
It all takes time, but little by little, if you use what you put in, you will find yourself getting faster.
You can view the various company websites.
Some of the companies will have an on-line test through MTTest. You have to submit you resume on-line as the first step of the test and then there are spelling, grammar, context questions, and then transcription testing.
I can't remember the names of companies that do this, but every test is diffferent so that even if 3 different companies have tests through MTTest, they are all different, so you can't just do one test and have those scores available for other companies to assess.
Many company websites will let anybody try their test for free.
Why not try a few company website tests and see how you feel after that.
And I think the comment about mastering things was a result of another poster's mispelling of English terms such as there/their and your/you're. Some MTs tend to think the way a poster spells on an MT board says something about their mastery of the English language.
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