There aren't any legitimate TranSCam employees.
Posted By: RUN AWAY!!!! on 2005-10-03
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There was even an article written about them in a national Parents magazine about how they're scammers. They tell everyone they'll "train or mentor" them. They want to charge $300 for a footpedal and software that can't be used anywhere else. You can get a better deal on ebay with a foot pedal for under $40 and download Express Scribe for free.
BTW, I have eight years of experience. I applied there to see what A. would say to me. I know I aced his "exam", but he told me I needed to be trained. Translation: Work for him for free. There's one gal that posted on this website who claims to have worked for him for two years for free now. Don't waste your time or money with it. If you already have, GET OUT! It might take you a while to find a legitimate job, but you will.
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Are they legitimate.
xceladminstaffingservice has anyone ever heard of this company? They sent me an email offering me work but they want an admin fee. It is only for $11.95 but I have always believed that you shouldn't pay anyone to give you work. Does anyone know if they are legitimate? Does anyone think that I should take the risk of losing the $11.95. It would be through a paypal account so they wouldn't have access to anything but that amount of money because I wouldn't put any more in there. Please let me know if you think this would be a good idea.
Some are in it as legitimate EDUCATORS
Personally, I would pick the ones that offer an education for the money. Those who just get your money and get you out the door don't really do it for me.
they might. but then again they might be Heartland employees and
be laid off. All 150 of their US MT's were let go. Without warning. Without severance packages. Now Heartland only has Indian MT's. Does that sound scary? It should.
Legitimate MT schools are different
My university would enjoy hearing that! They charged by the semester--same rate regardless of how many classes you took. An MT program is typically only a semester or two long, so paying in full for the whole thing isn't unreasonable at all.
It's not entirely accurate to say that you have to purchase it as a whole because it's a specialized program with very specific content. In most cases, it is because it is a WHOLE PROGRAM that is not broken down into classes.
If the school doesn't have "classes," how can you pay by the class??
Some programs do not have the work broken down into individual "classes" because they find it better for the student to integrate it into one whole program.
For instance, you can go to a college part-time and take medical terminology and anatomy. The next semester, you can take an introduction to computers and English. Then you have the summer off. The next semester, you can take speech and phys ed. The next semester, you can take math and something else. Then you have another summer off. Then, finally, a year or two later, you can get around to taking a class in medical transcription.
By the time you've gotten to the medical transcription, you've forgotten most of the med terms and anatomy, which you didn't learn very well to begin with because you were (1) new to the program and didn't know how or what to learn and (2) didn't have a reason to learn it. In a program broken down into traditional "classes," there is a disconnect between the classes which promotes poor learning. Oh, and the school has to find a different teacher for every class with only the local market to draw upon. The chances of being able to find subject matter experts who understand what an MT needs to know are almost nil. So, your classes are so far apart that you can't put them together in your mind and neither can your teachers, and nothing is ever repeated, so you never get a chance to learn what you might have missed the first time.
In contrast, an online, national MT program might prefer not to break the program down into "classes." They might prefer to integrate the material, so that you study related material at the same time.
A big factor in this is the fact that the best training material comes from Health Professions Institute. It's a whole program. Schools which use it typically do so in whole programs.
Another reason you have to pay for the whole program, either in full or in payments, is because the school incurs a great expense in enrolling you. They have to pay for your place in the program regardless of whether you feel like finishing it or not. They have to staff the school, purchase textbooks and materials, web space, computer server time, etc., all to support you, whether you stay to complete the program or not.
Enrollment in these programs is at a premium. At some schools, when they let YOU in, they may have to turn away someone else because they do not have enough room for everyone. If you decide to stop attending or to take a few months off, they still have to pay the instructors, still have to pay for the computer time, and can't put someone else in your place because they can't start anyone in the middle of the program.
Charging for the whole program also deters people who aren't serious about completing it.
It's important to do enough research in advance to be sure this is something you want to do and for which you have the support of your family. This is not easy work and learning it isn't easy, either. Quite honestly, if your husband cannot come around to see it -- and the school in which you learn it -- as legitimate, you won't have his support and you might as well not do this.
MQ employees at St Louis office
I just accepted a SE position with MQ at the St Louis office. Can I get some opinions of others that work for this office? I will be part-time, so I'm wondering about their training and how well are you treated. Do you get answers to your questions quickly and do you get feedback regularly.
Are there any happy Heartland employees out there?
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So thank you for saying Spheris employees are bumbling. That was nice.
Perhaps the green eyed monster is the one who can't stand the idea of anyone being successful in this field any way OTHER than the Mighty Big Three.
Health Professions Institute is a legitimate school
This is based in Modesto, CA and you can go to the website and check it out: http://www.hpisum.com. They also have great reference books that you can buy. Sometimes you can pick up used programs on MT Daily as well. You can also download samples from their website. Check it out.
TranSCAM
Talk to all of the brokenhearted newbies and wannabes who lost their dough and their time with these hoods.
transcam
Thank you so much for all your help and reply, I had a feeling they were, I started doing some research and ended up on your board, I am really glad I did, you all seem very nice and hard working people, helping one another, which is very nice to see. I am really taken by this profession, as i said I am an RN, my issue is, why would i have to take all the course that I have already taken Anatomy and Physiology, and so forth, can I bypass all of these courses that I have already taken, as I said I only want to do this as a side job, I already have a full time job. thanks again!!!!! Mina
No, it's not TranScam, LOL! nm
They are known as TranScam. Unless you won't
to pay to work for someone it is best to stay away. Lots in the archives, none of it good.
That soudns like TranscAm. You can always come here and
post, or the most appropriate place would be to post on the company board. If you are the one above who schooled through At Home Professions you're going to have a difficult time finding a job without getting more training. If you read the jobs ads most companies require 2 years of experience. There are always exceptions and I'm not saying you won't get a job, but if someone graduates from one of the schools that are well recognized they are going to have a better chance than you are, no matter what your grades were.
Most refer to them as TranScam . . . if that
xx
Sorry you aren't near me
I live in GA. I worked in the office for a while so I had someone right there to ask questions and check my work. That is the way they work. It was a pain to get childcare but it was quite nice to be able to ask questions and have a live person look at my work right then and there.
Good luck in your search!
No they aren't
Basic 4 are
History and Physicals
Discharges
Consultations
Op notes
Clinical notes are NOT basic 4
My, you are perfect aren't you?
nm
and instructors of many CCs aren't even MTs
Most community colleges can't afford good instructors who really know how to transcribe. They also can't afford the kind of books and materials because administrators don't think they can get jobs anyway.
Aren't you thoughtful
Very Good me! see we work together and help one another.
First you aren't typing 150 lph, you are
transcribing 150 lph - big difference. That lph isn't bad for being a newbie and you can't compare yourself to an MT with 10 years of experience.
You can make more macros, use more expansions. If you are trying to work around kids you probably aren't working as much as you think you are. There is a free program you can download called Time Stamp (I think) and you use it to clock in and out to show the time you are actually transcribing. You'll be surprised how much time you think you are working and how much you are actually working.
Try to get up early before kids and work 2 hours. If they are young enough to still take naps, work when they are napping, or give them at least an hour of quiet time in their rooms so you can work. Work after dinner when your husband can look after them.
Don't get on the internet unless you are researching and do your research and don't visit other websites or check your e-mail. If possible make a note about what you need to look up and save it for when you take a break and you can look up several at one time.
I've been doing this for 20 years. I'm not a fast typist, I can't transcribe with the speed ramped up. I know people who can turn out the lines, but I have also seen some of their work and it isn't a quality product - not saying that it isn't possible to do both, just that fast isn't always good.
You aren't going to be typing 60 wpm. You are going to have to
look up words, format, spellcheck, etc. so just because you can type 60 wpm doesn't mean a thing. You also have to figure it the difficulty of the account, how lines are counted .........
I think you aren't understanding
You state that the only skill you lack is speed.
That is not the reason you are not being hired. It is because you lack experience, not speed.
Even if you pass a test, there are probably many more who have scored higher and have experience - they will always get the jobs first.
There are a few companies that hire newbies but not many. It costs in resources to train newbies. Even with all of your education in your MT program, you are not as prepared as you think.
There are a few posts on down the page here that list companies willing to hire newbies. Check those out.
The best way to get your experience is to get it in-house locally. It will be easier for you to gain experience, you will learn more and then, once you have a history of having actually been hired and worked as an MT, you will be more appealing to employers.
CMT
No, they aren't. Monster and Careerbuilder
are legitimate job search sites. People just have to use their common sense. A legitimate job will ask for a resume, possibly references, and probably testing. Scams won't give you any information without a fee, or charge for "mentoring", equipment, software and other things you don't need. You can always find the information elsewhere for free or buy the equipment or software elsewhere. Never, ever pay for a job or information. If the person from the ad is being pushy or has a "money back guarantee", it's probably a scam.
Those aren't the only good schools
I was hired at a national straight out of CS. In fact I had 2 job offers within a couple weeks of finishing the program with zero medical experience prior to that. You don't have to spend a fortune to get a good education.
aren't you exaggerating? She is a newbie!....nm
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Sorry to hear about your lost business. We aren't seeing that.
I'm seeing more business than ever before. I hope yours will pick up. Don't get discouraged.
Even worse if spaces aren't included. nm
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It's a shame the MT companies aren't more "honest" --
when you tell them you "graduated" from AHP, or Penn Foster, etc. they tell you they only hire people with 2 years' experience. What they DON'T tell you is they will test AND hire grads of Andrews School and M-TEC, right out of school. If they would be more honest about that, maybe so many people wouldn't be ripped off by the schools that hold seminars, send out fliers, put postcards into TV Guide, and print advertisements for their school on matchbooks (hence the term "matchbook school"). These schools teach less than HALF of the necessary stuff that Andrews and M-Tec teach, and the companies know it. No matter how much you think you have learned or are learning, you have no idea of all the stuff you'll need to know that you haven't learned at the matchbook school. Like someone else said, the bad far outweighs the good when you're talking about those schools.
Career Step grads certainly aren't better than Andrews or M-Tec. nm
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I work for a small MTSO. They aren't hiring - sm
I've been with them for years, and they still have the same group of 10-12 MTs. Very steady, but they rarely hire new people.
People selling MT courses certainly aren't going to warn you
"Don't take my MT course, it's ***edited by Moderator*** and you won't be able to get a job afterwards." It's up to the person interested in becoming an MT to do some research about the job before plunking down money for training. If they do, they will learn that in order to be able to get a decent job, they need the kind of training provided at Andrews School or M-TEC, and not to try to save money on "cheaper" schools.
aren't we lucky this site has you to correct our spelling/grammar usage.
maybe you should consider editing.
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