Before I started exploring new career options in the science and medical fields, I hadn’t even heard of medical transcription. What exactly was the job, and more importantly, was it something that I could do? I had to find out more.
Medical transcription is a job where a person quickly and accurately transcribes from recordings dictated by physicians and other medical professionals. The exact contact varies from dictation to dictation, but mainly they consist of patient reports, clinical notes, operation and consultation reports, summaries of patient discharges, important letters, lab and pathology reports, and psychiatric evaluations. Doctors don’t have a lot of time to type out their own reports, so they dictate them quickly and employ transcriptionists to present it in a neat, efficient, and grammatically correct document for official medical records.
Wow! This sounded so interesting to me. I have always had a great interest in science and medicine, and transcribing seems like a perfect way to be part of that world without having to go back to school for an expensive degree. Everything I read said that it medical transcription was a good career choice for people with good listening skills, language skills, medical knowledge and computer skills. Since I’d been working in clerical positions in offices for many years, I felt like I had the skill set to be a success.
Medical transcription isn’t the job for everyone, but it sure sounded like a career that I could really love. This is the Medical Transcriptionist Program that worked for me!
