You need to be trained sm
Posted By: bip on 2007-11-04
In Reply to: I went straight from being a nurse to doing MT work with - Wannie
Sure, you may be able to learn easy things but who says your work is right? Have you had it checked by a CMT? Then you would know for sure if it is impeccable.
Do you know the 50 rules for comma usage--and not just when the doc says "comma" or when there is a pause? Do you know all the little rules like when saying "5 mL was instilled" is right over "5 mL were instilled" and things like that? Do you know periods basically always go inside the quotes and outside of parentheses? It is the little things that make the difference. How about when you say "I have 2 years experience." it is really "I have 2 years' experience."
I would say a nurse has a leg up, but you can't teach yourself to be a great MT. Anyone can type stuff, but they won't be typing it right.
You need to know the specifics about creating a medical document and grammar. I thought I knew grammar just fine until I went to school. I didn't realize (like I am sure you don't) all that I could have done wrong without schooling.
I know I won't change minds on here, but ask anyone trained and they will tell you--you can't possibly learn all this by yourself. At least not if you want to do acute care.
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Go back to the school that trained you
and demand that they finish the job. They did not make you job-ready. Your English-language skills are too weak to make you employable in any position other than a dead-end, minimum-wage job. Bluntly speaking, if you do not improve your English communications skills, you will face disappointment in your job search.
QA says my work is right. The seasoned MTs who trained
me say my work is right. Yes, I know about commas. I also know that a lot of doctors don't know a flipping thing about grammar nor do they have a good command of the English language. That's why they have others do their transcription, so it will be correct. Yes, I know periods go inside the quotation marks. Yes, I know I still have a lot to learn. We all do. Things change, often on a daily basis. Yes, I know not everyone can go from nursing to transcription. However, I did and some others can, too. It all depends on how bad you want to learn and how willing you are to work at learning it.
"well-trained" is the important point here
Those who aren't are running out of job options. The employers won't hire or keep people who are not properly prepared. They are dumping the MT services who don't have high standards.
That's exactly how I learned. Trained by people who knew
*what the heck they were doing.*
It may "encompass" transcription, but it's not enough to qualify you as a trained MT. NM
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Like someone else said, if you're trained only on "Ben Stein" dictation
you are in for a rude awakening when you get in the real MT world. Yes, you do have to be able to do a reasonably good job transcribing crap. What world do you live in, where all the dictators are slow, clear, precise, dictating in quiet places with no background noise, no accents, etc?
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