Medical Transcriptions
Published on 7 Nov 2005 at 12:18 pm.
10 Comments.
Filed under ICT Industry.
I spoke to a friend who’s into medical transcriptions. Some info I gathered from him:
• Turn-over is quick.. He says that sometimes they would train a medical transcriptionist (MT) for two months and they they’d leave for another company.
• He advises that MT companies should find a way to hold on to a MT for at least six months.
• Some MTs start out at 200 lines per day during training. But when they get good, they can go up to an average of 500 lines per day. The really good MTs can do 1,000 lines per day, especially when he/she has gotten used to the voice of the same doctor everyday.
• The bottleneck is the marketing side in the US. It’s expensive to deploy a person in the US to market the service. A big part of the contracts that my friend gets are sub-contracts from other MT companies.
• MT companies based outside Manila could be more cost effective. Cost of living is usually lower outside manila. Thus, with the same pay, an MT outside Manila will be taking home more of his/her salary than an MT working in Manila.
It’s an interesting industry. I remember that many of my med student friends went through a phase where they were doing medical transcriptions while in between jobs or board exams.
A few years back, I think only nursing or med or other allied medical courses can qualify to be medical transcriptionists. But now I think with the right training, anybody can become a medical transcriptionist.
Tama ba?
ka edong
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jett on 7 Nov 2005 at 11:50 pm: 1
I’ve been studying the business since last year. It is true that anyone can train to be a medical transcription but it helps a lot if you have a medical background. For example, some medical terms may sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Quality and accuracy is very important in medical transcription.
Some say this will be the next big industry after the call center boom.
Planning to get into the business? hehehe
ka edong on 8 Nov 2005 at 12:56 pm: 2
Hi Jett,
I have a very good friend who’s putting together a start-up MT business. They have seats in Baguio and Manila. Want to hook up? (I’ll forward your comment to my friend).
I hear that law transcriptions will be the next wave after medical transcriptions.
We’re imagining that transcriptions (or contact centers) could become a “cottage industry” in the Philippines. More on that in the coming articles (thursday siguro).
ka edong
skyping in a while …
Marilyn Roberts on 26 Nov 2006 at 4:45 am: 3
I have been a home-based medical transcriptionist for five years. It is not an easy job because some doctors talk like they write, nearly impossible to understand. I took a medical transcription course but it never quite prepares you for transcribing actual doctors. I work for a clinic so I learned each doctor’s way of dictating so it is now very easy for me. It took a long time to get there though. It is a perfect work at home job.
ka edong on 26 Nov 2006 at 4:48 pm: 4
Congratulations, Marilyn!
kathy on 28 Dec 2006 at 1:22 am: 5
hi i’m a graduating nursing student.. im planning to enroll this january 2007 in a training program as medical transcriptionist. can you help me?
ka edong on 28 Dec 2006 at 8:20 am: 6
Look around at your local classified ads or posters. You’ll find some MT schools advertising their services.
Visit also this article on online callcenter training
Goodluck!
dj on 25 Mar 2007 at 1:11 am: 7
ka edong
Hi i’m really interested with a home-based job especially anything related to a call center because that is where most of my working experiences come from,can you pls hook me up to anything MT?it would be better if it’s home-based thanks
ka edong on 3 Apr 2007 at 12:31 pm: 8
Interested in medical transcriptions?
Please contact www.thinklabtranscriptions.com
may on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:58 am: 9
I live in Palawan and really want to get trained as a medical transcriptionist. Are there medical transcriptionist online schools that accept Filipino citizens? None of the schools here offer the training offline. Thanks for any info any of you can give me.
ka edong on 25 Dec 2007 at 3:49 pm: 10
Hi May,
Try visiting a Netopia branch http://www.netopia.ph/.
They have an online medical transcriptions training course.
Edwin