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Author: Chuck Huckaby
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So when the owners were endorsed by working with our community college, we were fairly certain their Online Medical Transcription Course was "for real". If you're just taking a course without such a local endorsement, you may want to investigate DOUBLY HARD.
But there's more to this. A local community college can be wrong. We also suggest going to a school where the owners RAN A REAL MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION BUSINESS... preferably one contracted with a hospital or other large clients with a variety of medical specialities.
It's one thing to type for a single, slow speaking, courteous physician in one specialty. It's another thing entirely to type for 50 doctors from New York City who come from 10 different countries and represent 20 different specialties!
Rest assured though that the owner of an Online Medical Transcription Course who served large multi-specialty practices will know how to produce competent transcriptionists who can live anywhere, work over a DSL line, and make a good living. If you hope to do the same, you need THAT kind of training and NOTHING LESS!
The owners of Renee's school had the air of professionalism about them. They didn't dodge questions. They had plenty of "war stories" about the field and were honest about the earnings potential.
This leads me to another point. If a school says you can make $100,000 per year easily... run in the opposite direction as fast as you can.
To be safe, "on average" according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, medical transcriptionists earn around $30,000 per year.
Some will earn much more... if they have ( Next Page )
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