anyone who has taken a medical transcription course/ is a medical transcriptionist?
i’m going to be taking the online medical transcription course from canscribe career center soon. I’d like to know how challenging you found it, and anything else you would like to say about it. i would also like to know how much you like your job now, whether it is what you thought it would be, what type of facility you work in etc.. i’m interested in working from home once i have some experience under my belt and i would like to know if i would get paid more or less in general for the same amount of work.
any information you can give me would be great! I would mostly just like to know what it’s like and if paying the 8 grand for the course is worth what i will get out of it in the end 
To be honest, that course is very good, but not worth 8 thousand dollars. Look into Meditec (www.meditec.com). Their course is on special this month for around $1600 and they’ve been in business over 40 years and have an excellent internship program.
Yes, I found learning MT very challenging. I breezed through the anatomy, terminology, and book work. However, learning to tune my ear to the dictation was very difficult to me. However, I’m glad that I stuck w/ it because the income is great at $18 to $20 an hour and now it’s not difficult for me anymore.
Good luck to you. Don’t pay $8,000 to learn to transcribe. Seriously that is WAY out of the ball park.
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To be honest, that course is very good, but not worth 8 thousand dollars. Look into Meditec (www.meditec.com). Their course is on special this month for around $1600 and they’ve been in business over 40 years and have an excellent internship program.
Yes, I found learning MT very challenging. I breezed through the anatomy, terminology, and book work. However, learning to tune my ear to the dictation was very difficult to me. However, I’m glad that I stuck w/ it because the income is great at $18 to $20 an hour and now it’s not difficult for me anymore.
Good luck to you. Don’t pay $8,000 to learn to transcribe. Seriously that is WAY out of the ball park.
1References :
Canscribe is an AHDI-approved program but there are less expensive online schools also approved by AHDI that are less expensive.
The average medical transcriptionist earns approximately $30,000 per year, so it’s your decision as to whether or not you can earn enough to offset the cost of the school.
2References :
http://transcriptionschools.com
http://mtexchange.com