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Medical Transcription Salary- Can You Earn A Living From It?

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

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Why is it that there are many people who are now taking up medical transcription jobs? Is it due to the many job offers that come to them? Is it due to the good pay which the company offers? Do you  have an idea about the exact figure these MT workers get?

When it comes to medical transcription salary, there is actually a variation and that there is no standard income for this kind of job. To cut it short, the medical transcription salary depends on the ability and skill of a worker. For an instance, a person who works from home usually gets more pay than the ones working the traditional way or on online service settings. With this kind of set up, it is actually hard to determine the actual MT salary.

For people who work at home, there are cases that they get many work loads and there are times that they get less. In addition to this, there are competitors out there that affect the number of your work loads, thereby affecting your salary, too.

However, there is also an advantage when you have to get your own MT business because you will have the option to control how much you earn. This means that the more work loads you get, the higher your income becomes. And when your MT business has improved, you can hire subcontracts so you can take more work loads.

Depending on your skills and ability, you can earn fifty thousand dollars if you are a full timer; twenty thousand dollars if you are a part timer. If you are really that skilled, you may earn as much as 25,000 to 35,000 dollars an hour and can earn more if you have it as your own business.

It is difficult to know the actual medical transcription wages but what is important is that your potential income is there and lots of opportunities are offered.

Medical Transcription Seems To Fit

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

As a child, I taught myself to play the piano and read music, and went on to study piano for over 12 years. As a result, I have always had very good keyboarding skills. While in college I worked doing data entry. At that time, data entry standards were an average of 20,000 keystrokes per hour (kph), and I was typing at a rate of 70,000-80,000 kph. When I moved to another city and went to an employment agency, they told me that I couldn’t tell potential employers what my speed was because they would think I was making it up! Throughout my life, my typing speed has been a great benefit to me as I have worked in the computer and publishing industries. I have always been very interested in the health and medical fields, and being an avid reader, my bookshelves are lined with books on these topics.

Since at this point in my life I need to retrain for a new career, based on my interests and existing skills, medical transcription jobs seem to fit me perfectly. With my keyboard speed, editing skills, love of the computer, and medical interests, I am sure that I will love medical transcription. With the growth predications for this field, I expect that it will provide a dependable career with many opportunities, even in this lagging economy. The advantages of a career in medical transcription that I am going to enjoy most are flexibility and the potential to do medical transcription at home. I love working in my home office at my own computer, being able to dress comfortably and go barefoot if I want, being able to take a break to exercise, and to cook and eat my meals at home. Plus there is the added benefit of earning more as I get faster at transcription. SN:0MA9N2ESY

I am also really excited about the prospect of seeing my earnings climb as my speed builds. I am looking forward to learning medical transcription from FutureMT because they offer the best overall medical transcription training that I have found, and with the guarantees they offer, there is little to risk to enrolling in their course. I really appreciate having so much information available on the website to inform and educate the potential student about the course. I recommend that anyone who is considering a medical transcription course should thoroughly explore the FutureMT website, especially the FAQ pages. It is so easy to navigate and informative. Based on this information, the software-driven training system appears to be leading-edge technology. Having the text embedded is very convenient, and the games and dictation challenges will keep it interesting and fun. Being able to see sample pages from the software, and read about how it works has really made me eager to get started, because I can see how easy the course will be to follow. Compared to other courses I have investigated, this comprehensive course is more affordably priced, and has better financing options, and even the opportunity to win a scholarship.

Why I Would Like To Become a Medical Transcriptionist

Monday, May 10th, 2010

There are several reasons why I would like to become a medical transcriptionist; the first of which is my husband’s health. My husband is a carpenter by trade and has spent over 15 years in the field. The difficulty of his line of work has taken its toll, and 2 years ago he was told that he needed to have back surgery. He was also told that because of the severity of damage to his spine that he would never be able to work as a carpenter or do any physical labor for the rest of his life. Unfortunately surgery at that point was not an option. My husband is the sole provider for our family. We had to make a plan. We decided that the best plan of action was for me to enroll in college, and once I completed my degree we would then look at revising our plans for his back surgery.  home typist jobs

My schooling has been a long and difficult road. I am continuing to work towards my Associates Degree, but came to the realization not long ago, that finding a job outside of the home really isn’t going to be the best option once I complete my degree. That brings me to my second reason why I believe that medical transcription jobs at home would be a wonderful option for me as well as my family. My husband and I have two boys ages 8 and 9. We made the decision many years ago that I was going to home school them instead of sending them to school, and we take that decision very seriously. Although there is a possibility that my husband may be at home for several months after his surgery giving us the option of switching roles for a while; neither one of us looked beyond that to when he finds future employment. Seeing as I am the main provider of their education, it seems only logical that I look for a career that allows me the flexibility to work from my own home. This way I can continue to bring in an income during my husband’s recovery time while helping to nurse him back to health as well as while he is breaking into a new field himself. All while being able to continue home schooling our sons. SN:0MA9N2ESY

I’ve looked at several online medical transcription courses and there are several reasons why FutureMT caught my attention. First, they are accredited with the Better Business Bureau. I do not recall seeing that on any of the other sights that I visited. I am also very impressed with the guarantees offered. Not only that I am satisfied with the course and instruction, but in help finding my career afterwards as well. This says to me that Future MT is confident in what they have to offer, which makes me feel confident in selecting them as my choice. If I am selected to receive a scholarship I want to get started right away. I intend to reach my certification as quickly as possible, working at a full-time pace. Some things that I would like to see happen once I find my career as a MT would be to be able to maintain full time employment until my sons are older. Once they graduate then I may even look into beginning my own MT business.

Medical Transcriptionist

Monday, February 8th, 2010

From the time I graduated high school, many years ago, I have always had an interest in court reporting as my field of choice, but my career was put aside while raising children as my priority for many years. I have always worked in clerical or customer service positions while raising my three children. Most of my working years were at UPS, until their downsizing. Now I have been in customer service for 5 years in the compound semiconductor business, which I do not find very interesting, but pays the bills.

It is time I worked in a field that I am interested in the most! Like many people, I have a constant need to learn, and expand my knowledge in a variety of fields that interest me. I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management after my kids graduated high school in 2001. I continue to read books of interest, and take classes that interest me, most recently a piano class. I have always wanted to take a medical terminology course. When I saw Future MT’s online program, I decided this is something I can schedule on my own time, while taking care of family needs, working full-time, and training for a half-marathon again in January. I feel the job opportunity is there in the medical field. My sister is a General Practitioner, and it will come in handy to know the terminology, when she is discussing anything medical. The course is also a way to better understand the human body, to be aware of one’s own health conditions and other loved ones.

With the situation the economy is in, if my current employer would go under, I do not relish going to interview at another company for just any customer service job, especially with my Bachelor’s Degree. I feel this course will contribute to my pursuit in a CMT career since it is very well designed. With over 300 actual transcription reports, and it is encouraged to transcribe more than once, it is a great learning tool. The learning activities that include crossword puzzles, cognition, beat the clock and strikeout, are a great way to help with the memory by repetition. I feel am responsible to learn each chapter to the best of my ability, on my own, while correcting and checking my own work. It comes natural to me to be a speedy, accurate typist while using good grammar. SN:0MA9N2ESY

So far I have thoroughly enjoyed learning the spelling and definition of many new medical terms. I also have always had a keen interest in looking up information, and find the search for terms to be quite interesting! I do realize that at home medical transcription jobs are not that easy to come by, and in order to be hired, I will need 98% accuracy along with speed and proficiency. Also, experience will come in handy, and of course, that will not be behind me for one or two years down the road. I do have an interest to put my business management skills into practice, by starting my own business in the future. But for now, to work in an office setting and prove my skills or a home environment will be acceptable to me. I am looking forward to completing the course, receiving the Certificate of Completion, updating my resume, and finding out what medical transcription jobs are out there that I might be offered! At that time, I can make a decision about my current position, so as to have a Plan B in place!

Medical Transcriptionist Career Opportunities

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

I like to have a career as a Medical Transcriptionist since last year because I heard news about the booming of this allied career. I think this is the best job for me because I am a single parent and have two small children. I can work at home and hopefully to receive good salary while still taking care the needs of my children. I was motivated to have this kind of job because I also have a medical background course which is Bachelor of Science in Nursing and I know it will not be very difficult for me to have the training because I am familiar already with some medical words.

It also my desire to work in a health care industry, even though this is a transcribing job, I can continue learning through hearing the medical reports and my minds will works and can apply what I learned in nursing school. Continuity of learning is very important for me. The great advantage in working as a Medical Transcriptionist is the flexibility of work and I prefer this kind of job compare to be hired as a Call Center Agent. In call center job, one need to talk, listen and encode the details of the type of industry and I have some friends who got illness due to long hours of talking, they had a problem in their voice box and besides working in a call center usually in grave yard work shifts.

Taking the above consideration, working as a Medical Transcriptionist is more easy job as the MT just listen to the voice recorded by the physician or other health practitioner and once I gain enough experience or recorded medical cases, it will be more easy because the medical reports are somewhat almost the same in terms of the kind of disease and the treatments done, and the difference will only be the personal history and diagnosis of the patient. I am interested to have formal training because it will help me familiarize with the different English accents of the physician and other health care practitioner. I can all be well familiarizing with additional medical terms that might have not been taken up at school and most especially, I like to know how this system works. SN:0MA9N2ESY

In getting the right training for medical transcription jobs, I know the training school will help me to pursue my goal to do medical transcription at home, they can assess if I am doing well with my MT training and they can refer a company after my training. I have a goal that after 5 years, I am already an experienced MT and have the advantage of getting more Transcription order from hospital or clinics; I will do that for the next 10 more years because I have to work at home for my kids. When my kids are grown up, my goal is to have my own MT business wherein I can also help other people to have a rewarding career most especially those single parents like me. Today’s new technology such as internet is really a great help.