Thanks for the optimistic outlook (sm)
Posted By: nobitterhag on 2006-06-05
In Reply to: I do MT placement and I have more jobs for MTs than ever before - MT Placement Pro
It is good to hear some positive feedback about the MT field, rather than the doom and gloom that is so often spread here. As a new MT or student looking on this board and reading 90% of the posts, I would imagine a lot of people are discouraged and perhaps even turned away from a terrific field because of those who post such depressing "news" and (mis)information.
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But I think your outlook will be
brighter if you go to M-Tec or Andrews. Don't shortchange yourself on your education. The cost of these good schools may seem like a lot, but not compared to most any other 1- or 2-year school you could go to, and you are going to need all the support you can get from excellent teachers and job placement counselors. I can't tell you how much it will pay off to do it right the first time.
See now I have a different outlook on that.
I would think that the companies would like to see people using all the resources they can which from what I can remember are asking real people questions. I know many people that learn the bast by asking the questions rather than just getting frustrated because they cannot find the answer on " their own".
Just a thought for those companies that are looking at these and seeing them as negative. The tests do say to use ALL resources. :)
-Still a teacher at heart.
Outlook for MT employment
Curious what the Board of Labor Statistics has to say about MT outlook and employment projection? According to their website:
"Contracting out transcription work overseas and advancements in speech recognition technology are not expected to significantly reduce the need for well-trained medical transcriptionists. Outsourcing transcription work abroad—to countries such as India, Pakistan, Philippines, and the Caribbean—has grown more popular as transmitting confidential health information over the Internet has become more secure; however, the demand for overseas transcription services is expected only to supplement the demand for well-trained domestic medical transcriptionists. In addition, reports transcribed by overseas medical transcription services usually require editing for accuracy by domestic medical transcriptionists before they meet domestic quality standards. Speech-recognition technology allows physicians and other health professionals to dictate medical reports to a computer that immediately creates an electronic document. 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."
Unfortunately I don't think ANY of the schools, including the Big 3, are honest about MT outlook.
The amount of work going overseas, the fact that you CANNOT work twice as fast with most voice recognition as you can with straight transcription (despite the fact that the companies insist you can and therefore only pay you half as much). There are a lot of MTs with a lot of experience who are getting out of the business.
Also, it's even harder to find a part-time MT job when you are a newbie, because there is a big learning curve regardless of what course you take, and companies don't want to spend that much time on someone who only wants to work part time, because it will take them a lot longer to get up to speed.
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