what area are you from?
Posted By: me on 2005-12-02
In Reply to: frustrated - melissa
I live in California. I have been transcribing for 15+ years, and if someone local was looking for a mentor, I might consider. Maybe where you are at there is someone interested in QA'ing all your work. You could make some money to start but worth more than the money would be the training and experience.
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Around my area
They post on their website and run ads in the local paper. A lot of available jobs are found by word of mouth. I would just apply to a bunch of facilities in your area whether they have posted anything or not.
I am also in the Dallas area (sm)
and am fairly new to transcription. I do have some experience. I have sent out tons of resumes and letters to companies, doctors, etc. and have not found anything. I have had a couple companies tell me they would give me a chance, but then I never heard from them again. I am not giving up though, I am very confident that I will find something eventually, and I know that I can do the work.
No In-House Jobs In My Area
Dont know where you live but in my area, there are no in-house MT jobs.
Are there any technical schools in the area?
Some colleges offer medical transcription. That would be her best bet. Get in the school (on-site), and then most will place her for a first-time job probably at a local hospital. Good luck to your friend. I'm not so sure these online courses meet the expectations once you've graduated. It can be overwhelming. There are companies out there hiring new graduates, but I just think the on-site instruction is so helpful. 
Training in the Atlanta area
Hi. I wanted to let you know about a training program in the Metro Atlanta area. We are a full service transcription company. We also offer a training program that we feel is unique. Our program consists of the normal training that you would find at other companies - medical terminology, anatomy, laboratory data testing, etc. What we feel is unique is our mentoring program/dictation training. Our trainees work on the same type of work that they would be doing if we were able to offer them a job. Each trainee comes in office 2 to 3 times a week and works on dictation. After each transcript is completed, a mentor/trainer then goes over the chart line per line with them correcting each mistake. Because of our system, we are able to offer approximately 90% of our trainees a job once they reach 98% accuracy. We found with some of the other training programs, the dictations that Transcriptionist were being trained on were not "real" and we were basically having to re-train them completely. Since we are in the metro Atlanta area, we only offer training to people in this area.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
check to see if there is a wireless tower in your area...sm
you will have to do some searching as they don't contact you-- you have to contact them-- but a year ago I found there was a wireless tower about 1 mile from my house. DLS for Direct Line of Sight (NOT DSL!) and sends a wireless signal to a antenna on my roof. Very fast connections and reasonably priced (I paid $300 to install and $45/month). Ask neighbors, etc. and watch for those funky dish-looking things on people's roofs - all pointed in the same direction. I found mine because my sister switched - and then found them on the internet. Perhaps something like "wireless internet service providers [your town])?
Don't forget radiology offices in your area.
Never know when they might need some part-time help. Or chiropractic offices. You might do other jobs as well, but variety isn't all bad.
Have you tried local clinics or small MTSO's in your area?
That's how I got my first break. Good luck.
try to stick to ACUTE care. You don't want to find yourself 'stuck' in one area.
You were "blessed to find a private company" in your area. Most people are not so blessed.
And most companies will not even let grads of AHP take their employment test, because they know they haven't been trained well enough to pass it. However, the companies will simply say that they "don't hire newbies" and "you must have 2 years' experience" which isn't true, you just need a good education where they know you can pass their test and do the work.
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