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• What do you think? - Pamela
  • I've done both and all I can say is to think long and - Wannie
  • MT versus nursing - maam
    • yes maam - Pamela
      • I've also done both - Sherry
        • Ditto - RN,BSN
        • This LPN/MT echoes your sentiments exactly. Can't add a thing. Thx. nm - wandering
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    • ????? - maam
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I certainly do not mean any disrespect at all to any of the trailblazers, but I think the MT programs now, particularly the good online training courses, do have the idea that many people want to chuck the 2 years' hospital experience out the window to work at home immediately.  This knowledge is reflected in the setup of the courses themselves...you do learn at home rather independently for the big dog schools, just as you would work rather independently when you start working.  I do believe these schools are expected by their students to be able to train people for employment at home straight away after graduation.  I am certainly not dissing the idea to work in a hospital for 2 years at all.  I just think that maybe the times have changed with more emphasis on MTs working at home, and the training programs are keen to that knowledge and are up to the challenge. 

Keep in mind that a hospital will most likely pay you hourly, which is definitely a huge reason to work in a hospital.  You will make beans on production at home, and not even beans in the can.  You will make the cheap dried beans.  Instead of building speed at home and making dried beans, you can build the speed and ear in the hospital with the consistent hourly wage, learn the ropes, and then go home when you are comfortable.  However, there's a learning curve with each new job, and you go back to making beans every time, but now they are Bush's Baked Beans usually.

However, I would suggest that you just try to take some online tests, even for those companies that indicate that you need 2 years' experience.  Some of them will waive that requirement if you do well.  (Some of them will bid you farewell and ask you to retest in 6 months or when you really have 2 years' experience.)  If these companies drop you a line after you test (and many will), you will get an idea of how you are doing.  You may even accidentally get a job offer.

When you start work, you will send everything QA's way.  You will worry about driving your QA person batty.  I still worry about that sometimes! 

Anyway, since I'm done talking in circles, there are benefits to both sides.  It is not necessary to start in a hospital to be successful. 

Out of curiosity, what training program did you go with?

To all of our posters on MTStars:  We have experienced an individual who is apparently running a scam.  We want to make you aware of this situation and urge you to be discerning in any e-mails you receive regarding this and diligent to report any contact with this person or other similar situations with us immediately:

Name: Sherry Robinson
Email: s_robinson28714@yahoo.com
Phone: 828 675 2119
Location : Burnsville, NC  28714
 
She is asking for $100-200 for work at home jobs.  Once payment is sent via PayPal or check, she vanishes and later (after repeated emails and calls) sends a mail with links (mostly broken) to Work at Home Job sites, which any MT can find by simply using Google.  Her scam is via telephone!   The emails she sends out contain only the following information:  Call Sherry Robinson 828-675-2119

MTStars Team

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?   

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?