Naming the scum who do such things can help, but it is far more powerful to know the signs of a scam. This allows you to judge opportunities for yourself, even when they're so new that no one has heard of them yet.
It's vital to understand that not all scams will share all of these characteristics. As a matter of fact, some scams will do an amazing job of hiding their problems. But the more symptoms you know, the less likely you are to be scammed.
1. "You just type up what the doctor says!"
Or anything making it sound easy. Medical transcription is not easy. You have to learn a huge, specialized vocabulary. You have to know the difference between words that sound similar or even identical.
You have to do the job as nearly perfectly as possible. You're dealing with people's medical records, after all, and that's nothing to fool around with. This is not a job for the untrained.
2. "We'll train you on the job!"
Nope. Not going to happen. There are some companies that claim to offer this, and all you have to do is buy their software. But you'll never make it with them. You will never be a paid employee. You will eternally be an unpaid student, whose best efforts are never good enough for you to graduate to a paid status.
And despite anything you may learn from them, legitimate employers will still insist that you get a real medical transcription education. You lose both money and months of effort to these scams.
3. "No training required."
To find a real medical transcription employer, you have to first get trained. There's no way around this.
There are a few quality schools out there. I always see people recommending Career Step, The Andrews School and M-Tec. I hear about other schools trying to get started here and there, but until they build up a quality reputation, I just can't recommend any of them.
4. Poor English on the site advertising the opportunity.
Why would you trust a site created by someone who couldn't transcribe a report themselves? It's better to get advice on a new career from someone who knows something about the field.
The Information Technology boom has added a new flavor to every aspect of life. Be it restaurants, educational institutes, the insurance or transportation industries or medical facilities and hospitals. With the growing number of IT trained personnel and the spreading of the IT revolution into routine life, the medical field has come to accept the role of technology in its processing.
By the same token, Medical Transcription, too is a fast growing aspect of the medical career field. The role of a medical transcriptionist is to listen to the voice recordings of qualified doctors and nurses and then transcribe them to a digital format that includes medical reports, graphs or charts.
With the evolution of the Internet, the world has shrunk considerably. Now it's possible for a distance of 1000 miles to exist between a patient and the doctor who is treating him. There are more and more job openings in the field of medical transcription every day.
People are encouraged to join the transcription field though promotions, advertisements, an abundance of books on the matter and because of the lure of a flexible work culture. Although most of the advertisements are a mere hoax to promote and sell books on medical transcription, there are quite a few genuine ones that offer you a legitimate job in the field.
The job field of a medical transcriptionist is normally in actual hospitals (usually dealing with huge number of patients), in a private doctor's office, visiting clinics, or other outpatient medical care facility resorts. There are innumerable jobs in testing labs, medical schools or even private third-party transcription services. A trained person can even work as an independent or in a home-based office offering his services as an affiliated medical transcriptionist.
Since medical transcription is a job based on medical research and facilities, it requires a formal degree in the field of medicine, or dedicated training that imparts knowledge of the medical lingo and other medical processes to the potential transcriptionist. Due to the possibility of working from home this field is much sought after.
While being home-based has its benefits, it has its challenges as well. This includes being able to follow a strict regimen as far as time is concerned and having to manage all the accounts and taxes on your own.
A medical transcriptionist basically has to transcribe what he hears. These notes are then put into forms and sent over directly to the patient or his local consultant. The medical transcriptionist's job requires good listening skills due to the complexity of medical terminology. Some terms may sound the same, but have different meanings depending upon the context in which it is used.
The most crucial are the final results of transcription work which must be 100% accurate, since this work is what is used to document a patient's medical history. In many cases a medical transcriptionist's work is utilized during certain legal proceedings. Since legal matters can hinge entirely on the accuracy of the transcriptions, absolute perfection is required in the transcription reports.
After the outcome of the legal proceedings or any discrepancy, irrespective of outcomes, all transcripts generally become a matter of public record. The reputation of the doctor, patient, employer and the transcriptionist is at stake where every document is concerned.
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