want to be a psych mt
Posted By: xy scribe on 2007-09-16
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psych MT s are not necesarily so easy as i have been doing then for years and they have their idiosyncreases too. i am getting sick of acute cate and clinic and rreally would like to concentrate on psych again.ive looked into some companies like transcription at its best, etc., and they have special psych accounts but they are hard to reach.
i was wondering if any psych MTs had any suggestions as to who to connect with soon. there's aubri dictation but they are hard to reach as well. any help would be appreciated. thanks!
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I used to work an account that did disability evaluations, mostly psych, some ortho and general medicine as well. It was great - a lot of phych testing, which I love. I guess a lot of the good psych stuff falls under this category. If I could get an account with the state or something doing disability transcription, I'd be in heaven. Love this type of work. Nice long reports and never gets boring. If anybody has any luck, let me know! I haven't found anything comparable in all my searching.
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they do tend to be boring, but are usually in pretty plain English and are pretty long, so you get lots of lines. Easy money.
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What's your plan?
Try hospital accounts with psych units
The only psych reports I've ever were through hospital accounts that had psychiatric units. Whether the psych report come through the ER, a consult or the unit, I find psych notes are always interesting. Good luck. I hope you find a great psychiatric account.
Huh. The psych I've transcribed has been easy and boring.
There weren't a lot of shortcuts possible, but it was mostly typing regular English.
most psych work is included in multispecialty hospital work..sm
contracted to a medical transcription service that requires multispecialty experience because of the hospital work. Unfortunately, very rarely can a medical Transcriptionist these days be given only one specialty when working for a service or hospital. We have to be well versed in multi specialties. The Turn Around Time on demands have increased, and thus the service or hospital gives the MT many different types of work. Learn as many specialties and gain as much experience in different specialties, which in turn will make you a more valuable MT and more apt to gain employment.
The very first day I transcribed, I transcribed psych
ESLs. I had no MT training, no mentoring, and I did 600+ lines. Prior to that I hadn't typed in years and probably could type 35 wpm on a good day.
I'd suggest browsing through a psych reference book. Put as many abbreviations as you can in your expander. I have certain docs that always dictate the same tests and H&P tend to have a lot of the same info in them. If you don't already get a spellchecker and that should help some with not having to look so much stuff up.
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