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As baby-boomers age and require increasing health care services, all medical fields will experience an unprecedented demand.

In medical transcription, this situation is already creating serious problems. There has always been a shortage of medical transcriptionist, due in part to the fact that it's one of those "hidden" careers people outside the medical field rarely realize to exist. However, what used to be an inconvenience is quickly becoming a crisis. In some parts of the country, there is such a severe shortage of MTs that over 40% of the work is done by MTs out of their home offices that are living in other states.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, by 2005 the demand for medical transcriptionists will have increased by 63%. They expect it to increase dramatically more by 2014.

The American Hospital Association says that "medical transcription is one of the fastest-growing fields," and Pat Forbis, past president of the AAMT states, "It's easy to get accounts if you know the jargon. It isn't easy is to get talent to service those accounts ."

Over half of all medical transcriptionists work at home, and with the rising interest in telecommuting, medical transcription is gaining more attention. Community colleges that never heard of medical transcription several years ago rushed to establish a curriculum, and the Internet offers a multitude of training courses.

This is unlikely to have much effect. It is estimated that 30% of students never complete the training, due in part to unrealistic expectations. The typical student with no background in health care demands a course with proper training, but is then unwilling to devote the time and effort necessary to master the material .

Unfortunately, many courses turn out students who can recite the names of cellular organelles, but who are unfamiliar with professional tools, don't own digital transcribers, and can't transcribe more than 100 lines per hour. Prospective students ask questions such as, "Do you teach by body systems?" when they ought to ask, " Will you teach me the skills necessary to get a job?" You will be happy to know that we are not like some of the other courses that do not give job advice or training. We give Job Assistance after completion of our course .

While there are jobs out there for New MTs with no prior medical background other than the Medical Transcription Course, these jobs require organization, self-motivation, and high accuracy of the work which is done . Of course there are many tools out on the market to assist you with your accuracy; we have some extra tools / software in our course that will assist with accuracy.

Some places ask the Medical Transcriptionist to work at their location for a short period to learn proper skills and develop a trust between the company and the New MT, however not many New MTs are willing to devote a short time period of work outside of their home even when the pay off would mean years of working in their home setting. These are the companies that are near where the MT lives. In situations where the MT lives far away they may ask to take a transcription test online; on the other hand, even do so much work at a lower rate on a temporary basis. Once they are happy with your work, then they would take your pay up to normal pay basis.

With Digital Medical Transcription, you can work for a doctor which is thousands of miles away through your computer so the possibilities are endless of how much you can advance your career.

There are not many courses that focus on building transcription skills beyond providing practice dictation or that provides training in the use thousands of dollars instead of keeping the focus on what is important to learn as an MT. Consequently, no matter how many students actually graduate, it is unlikely to make a dent in the demand of professional tools. We know how important it is to learn more than just terminology, and yet to not over stuff the course with materials that only a Doctor would need to learn. It is sad, but true fact that some courses put extra material in their program that is not needed in their course materials just so they can raise their course prices into the thousands.

More than half of all medical transcriptionists are Independent Contractors (ICs). Medical transcription is unusual in that many companies provide full benefits for ICs, including paid vacation and sick leave, health insurance, retirement plans, and even sign-on bonuses. In addition, there is no mandatory retirement age for medical transcriptionists.

Independent Contractors usually commit to either x number of lines, or x hours of dictation per week. Six hours are considered a full day for most medical transcriptionists, and many work less. Earnings are high enough that competent MTs can make a very good living working a 30 hour week.

In addition, ICs can choose to work for transcription services located in those regions that pay the highest rates. For example, the Pacific Northwest pays twice the rate of some southern states. It's as easy for an IC with digital equipment to work for a company located over thousands of miles away as one located in the next town.
After gaining some experience, it is easy for MTs to acquire their own accounts with local physicians and clinics, which usually results in doubling one's income.
In addition to physicians and hospitals, medical transcriptionists can work for dentists, psychologists, medical examiners, even veterinarians. One MT we know works for a popular author, proofing his medical thrillers for accuracy while transcribing dictated novels!

Medical Transcription is not for everyone. ..
 
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Are you searching for a well-paying, secure job, working from home?

Medical transcription isn't for everyone, but for people who enjoy typing and are interested in health and medicine;
medical transcription offers a secure and lucrative opportunity to work at home.

The work is fascinating. You won't get bored with medical transcription because you're always learning about the fascinating field of medicine and the human organism. New discoveries, medicines, techniques and understanding are a daily occurrence in this exciting field. An important side benefit is that you become more conscious and knowledgeable about your own health, and that of your family.

The income is excellent. There is a wide range of potential earnings in medical transcription and all of them are good. You can work part-time and earn as much as many full-time employees who have college degrees. You can work full-time and reach an upper-middle class income. You can open your own home-based medical transcription service, outsourcing transcription to other home workers, and earn an income that qualifies as "affluent."

In fact, most courses don't even require a high school diploma! Anyone with normal intelligence and the drive to excel can become a medical transcriptionist.

Medical transcriptionists are respected. This is one field that is dominated by women whose work product is respected. While nurses and other female healthcare providers typically complain that their training is not respected in the work place, MTs enjoy respect not only from their peers and employers, but from the doctors they transcribe for. Even the family physician takes on a new attitude when the MT speaks to him in his own language!

Few careers offer so much, especially to those of us who did not have the opportunity to become software engineers after six years of training, or lawyers after seven years, or doctors after eight years. As a comparison, the median income for female doctors is $85,000. Many top MTs earn over $60,000 and those who own home- based transcription services earn considerably more!

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If you'd like to learn more about medical transcription as a career, please visit the links below.

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