That person just wanted the price!
Posted By: M-TEC Graduate on 2007-08-29
In Reply to: Good luck - SABMT
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.
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Why don't you just give them a call and have all of your questions answered by them? Everyone there is very friendly, honest, and will take the time to explain things to you.
gotta wonder why it's 1/2 price
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There are quite a few and range in price - sm,
Stedman's Smartype, Instant Text, Shorthand, and one or two others I think. I have used ShortHand and Smartype. I prefer the Smartype as it comes loaded with medical terms, etc., the Shorthand doesn't from what I remember. They run $90-$200 depending on which one you buy. I believe you can get free trials, so that would be the way to try them out and see which one you like the best. I have heard that IT is harder to learn and get used to, but as I have not tried it I really don't know. They really do help though, I know I am at least 30-40% faster because of my word expander.
ICS will NOT teach you enough to get a job. Don't be suckered in by the low price. nm
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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!
Opinions wanted...
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?
Maybe not full price, I agree. But some companies are
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I found this nextag site: price 5.99 to 44.50:
http://www.nextag.com/Microsoft-Word-2003-60348100/prices-html
(Here's the page I came off of to get to the "prices" URL: http://www.nextag.com/microsoft-word-2003/search-html . It has various MS Word 2003 packages. You might check it out also.)
MTStars FlashType is also just like Shorthand only cheaper in price.
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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
Thanks for being an understanding person
and giving the "newbies a second chance. Bless you!!
What an awful person I am trying to get them
away from a bad school. The bottom line is it is a BAD school. Just because people scurry around teaching themselves AFTER graduating from AHP and the likes doesn't mean they were successful because of AHP. They were successful in spite of.
I have talked to dozens of AHP students and graduates wanting me to help them and I have seen the material. To congratulate and praise them on choosing AHP is plain idiotic. If someone reads my negative comments and chooses a different school because of that, great!
Standards are raising in MT even if the pay is not. Companies want to hire people from an MT school and more often than not they want those people to come from a good one.
This person is an angel!!
I am a new graduate (January of 2008) and I have been eagerly trying to just get my foot in the door, without the infamous 2+ years experience. I would be blessed if a company like this one would allow me to gain this experience, even at 0.05 cpl!!! Maybe it's just me though!
I emailed this person and you are wrong
Out of curiosity, I emailed this person. He is not trying to sell anyone anything. He has his own resume writing business (hence his email address) and he also does transcription. He had a lot of good ideas. I do agreee with you about sending professional letters though. Flyers seem cheap and impersonal. But I really think you should have gotten your facts straight before posting this reply.
One person's sinking ship is another
I think that if someone is trying to gain experience and a company is willing to hire new grads and pay them, then so be it. As long as the money is green, it will spend! I don't work for MedQuist, but I know there are still happy MTs there, and they do have a lot of accounts. I think it would be a good company to get your feet wet if not for anything else. It is a company to put on your resume.
not everything works for the every person, but what i have found.....
I started out many years ago working for a few doctor's offices (neurosurgeon, infectious disease, oncologist, urologist) in the same building. I would pick up tapes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and deliver work those same days. I worked seven days a week back then (probably still do). After years of doing and the cost of gas skyrocketing, I realized it would be more beneficial for me to work for a service (either independent contractor or employee). I signed on with a national company (MedQuist). I know there are a lot of people out there who are not happy with MQ, but I am. My accounts are good, so I can make a good line count. The only problem is that my accounts are so good that there are many MT's working on them, and I tend to run out of work early in the day. I have signed on with an additional company to fill the void in my day.
I think I saw somewhere that MQ was hiring MT's with little or no experience. If that is the case, I would consider MQ or another national to get started.
I don't know anything about the benefits offered, as I rely on my husband for that.
Good luck.
I'm pretty sure it isn't recognized, as the other person
said, it is just a basic course and in way prepares you for being an MT.
I am the person, who sent the email. I am a mentor. sm
I have had some challenges with interns, some requiring longer internships than others. Other newbies have breezed right through. I average the time from 3-4 months.
You are given a variety of family practice and specialty clinic work. You must meet 97% accuracy in medical terminology, medications, grammar and formatting before referral for contract is made. You will be contracted beginning at 7 cpl.
When you graduate, you take a doctor with you, one you have mastered and will get lines immediately. I assure you this is a legitimate internship.
You also receive new terms weekly.
-Jade
I think you have the wrong person or someone else's resume. I have been working for 10 years. I
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I have the right person and you are too quick to reply to posts. A professional
You don't see the big guns worrying about anything posted on this board. Sheesh.
MTStudent, the person who was quite rude to you has been banned. MTStars encourages new MTs to ask
questions and without being viciously attacked the way you were. There are a lot of very nice, helpful people here and will answer your questions.
Administrator
Don't worry anon, this is the same person on the Word Board asking test questions!!
How would you show the cards in person when you work in another state? You copy them and mail/fax
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