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Posted By: Only honest on February 25, 2005 at 01:40:44:
In Reply to: thank you for your input (more) posted by on the fence on February 24, 2005 at 23:27:23:
Sure, most accounts have work available if you have extra time, they just have to be able to cover set amount per day. That is something to mention when landing that first job. However, you might be amazed as how little you actually accomplish at first. You have a lot to learn plus learn dictators, style of dictation, facility preferences, and set up macros, instant text, etc. that are very time consuming, but are lifesavers (finger savers) in the long run. Classes: A personal preference for every person. My experience personally was I went for the degree. Even with everything I learned and having top grades and taking the same clasess the med and pre-med students took, I still had TONS to learn from that first job. I thought I was wrong, I spent 14 hours to get 1000 lines, spend forever looking things up...but slowly I found I looking up less because I knew the answer and those I didn't know I knew where to look so searching took even less time. I have hired people who have taken home courses...and truthfully, I have found a few gems that were born to be MTs but most of them had such limited knowledge about the work, knowing what goes under what header when the doctor rambles a 2-page report in one breath, buying references, reliable webpages versus public information and even the basic functions of maintaing their computer! So choose wisely, look for heavy feedback in your course as some do not provide much at all outside of "their" way which unfortunately, breaks many basic transcription rules no matter where you work. Know the AAMT Book Of Style - while there are many things to argue about it, there are a lot of facilities that are hardcore AAMT for quality checks and client preferences. Go into a program knowing that even after the program you have just scratched the surface of the profession and have the basic tools to continue learning.
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