most of my MTs come from Community Colleges

This insistence on Andrews or M-Tec makes me very uneasy.  I've been responsible for hiring and training thousands of MTs and even I don't know these two schools that well and I rarely see graduates from there.  I know they have good student support.  I do see lots of graduates from Career Step.  BTW, the Career Step grads are not well prepared for employment- not at all.  Not like you'd think from reading current posts.  Most of my past hires from Career Step failed to stick with it.  Only a small percentage could hold up- bad typing skills- but good on terminology.

Most of our employees (MTs) are either graduates of community colleges or staffing schools that we contract with.  If Andrews and M-Tec were as dominant as you read here, I'd expect the only good MTs to have come from those schools and I don't.  I didn't go there.  I've done fine.  I've never had a problem being hired in my early days as an MT.  I went to a community college and they used HPI publications.

I think this insistence on a "big three" is very misleading.  As a person who hires and trains, I know you don't need to attend one of these 3 schools to get a job.  Attitude has far more to do with it than book training anyway.  We'd much rather have a graduate with a poorer education who has a great attitude than the reverse.  The education can be improved quickly while the attitude is impossible to change.

I will just take your word for it that these 2 schools have great classes, but why all this drum beating when there are untold numbers of excellent community college programs and also staffing schools.  How about Mentoring Internships too?  There are lots of resources that my MTs have used to become well educated.

However, there are "schools" that are nothing but internet marketing machines.  It is obvious who they are.  They are the ones who sell diplomas for almost anything.  New students should definitely beware of those.  Medical Transcription is too difficult to learn from a mail order house.  You can't sit in isolation at home and learn medical transcription very easily and that is the big trap, IMO.  This is not like getting your real estate license and only needing to pass 1 test to get a job.

That's my view from my corner of the world.

• Regarding schools - did you ever notice that (see message) - Deb
  • most of my MTs come from Community Colleges - toni
    • SCHOOLS - Rosemarie Danelle
    • comm. college - allie
      • AHDI has heard of MTec - Peggy
        • comm college - allie
      • Allie- you need good teacher support - toni
        • comm. college - allie
          • I'd not attend the Comm College if teachers are not helpful - toni
            • comm college - allie
              • It's not a guaranteed job - Peggy
    • Durn Right Toni - Tell It Sistah!
      • What about all the "I can't get an MT job, nobody will hire me" posts? - Deb
        • So Tired of the Hype - Tell It Sistah!
          • First, I'm not one of the "little grads" I'm not their grad at all. - Deb
            • The $3000 educations will become a thing of the past - toni
              • But . . . - Peggy
                • tsk tsk- small minds - toni
                  • What I see happening is . . . - Peggy
                    • So silly and can't stand diversity or scrutiny - toni
                      • Please - MT
  • Huh? - What's this mean?

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3 terms, September to June, got a certificate in medical transcription. I then went an additional term and picked up a medical office specialist certificate and also took some coding classes and passed the coding test that same year. Within 2 months I had an in-house transcription job (the first and only transcription job I applied for) worked there 3 years, did every type of report and all radiology reports, and have been at home for 2 years now. My current employer (which is a very good national) hired me without even having me take a test of any kind, just did the phone interview, so my community college certificate has not hurt me in the least. Good luck in whatever you decide.

Hello,

I am interested in taking the Career Step program, but trying to decide whether to go through San Juan Comm College.  I would like to know if anyone has taken the CS course through the college and if they felt prepared.

Thanks!

Hi Julie, I am a student in the medical transcription program at Everett Community College. I am in my second semester and have been able to get financial aid (that I don't have to pay back) for my first 2 semesters. They also offer Federal Student Loans that anyone can get. The program is great but definitly not easy! The instructors are also awesome. Let me know if you have any questions!!

http://www.everettcc.edu/programs/bat/medtrans/index.cfm?id=300&linkFrom=Search

I completed their 2-year program, and it was excellent.  The person in charge of the program is a CMT and she had another CMT working with her.

Chickadee