Article Manager posted on February 14, 2010 06:46
When there is demand for a profession in the midst of a recession and while people in other professions are being laid off left and right, you know that profession has bright prospects. Such is the case with medical transcription. This career choice is the future.
That's why Future MT has designed an online career training course for medical transcriptionists to prepare them for a job that looks like will grow and grow. The course is as rigorous as the demands of the job itself.
Now, don't take that last statement as something to be concerned about. It's a challenge, but it won't kill you. A medical transcriptionist must be familiar with medical terminology in a large variety of specialties; therefore, we spend a considerable amount of time going over medical terminology to ensure that you know the basics and know where to go for referencing terms later that may not be familiar with when you end the course. In other words, we don't teach you everything there is to learn about medical transcription, but we teach you enough to get started.
And the salary you can expect to earn as a medical transcriptionist is good too. If you are accustomed to minimum wage or $10-$12 per hour then you might be comforted to know that this is the starting pay for the bottom 10% of medical transcriptionists employed today. It goes up from there.
The medical transcription field is in high demand because insurance companies won't pay invoices until they receive a dictation report. That means doctors, hospitals and offices that rely on insurance company payments have a need that they can't do without. You'll always be in demand a medical transcirptionist. That's true job security.