We encourage you to read as much of our web page as possible to learn about medical transcription as a career.

Below is information on the "facts" about getting hired as a new medical transcriptionist after proper training!

We will not mislead you in any way and will tell you both the pros and cons of finding work as a new MT! There are plenty of jobs for MTs just starting out in the career.

Once you have completed the medical transcription course you will be presented with a certificate of completion. You will also receive job and resume assistance for up to two years. Should you decide to change the physician you work for, or if you want to work for several physicians, you can notify us and your resume will be re-posted to our system and referred out to open positions. We encourage you to submit your own resume as well.

The MTatHome Medical Transcription Course takes an average of six months to complete for most people. However; there are some students who may need to take six months to one year. This will just depend on if you are going to study full-time or part time. If you need to take longer this is okay.

Some students may work a full-time job while taking the course and may not have a lot of time each day to study. There is not a time limit on the completion of our course at this time. However, if you do take longer than two years for any reason; you might be required to purchase updated material if the books you have are no longer being used. We update our books as new editions are released. These are usually every few years.

Please do not let anyone tell you that you can learn medical transcription in a few months. There is too much to learn, and you want to make sure you get the best training that you can. The students who do finish their MT course in under six months are usual those with a medical background such as nursing or medical assistants.

Job Assistance

It can take an average of one to three months after receiving the certificate to start working as an MT. This is just an average. We have many students who have gotten into positions much sooner, and others that it might take longer.

We receive many referrals from people that have taken our course in medical transcription and were happy with their training. We have seen family members enroll within several months of each other because of how pleased they were. Physicians and universities have also referred others to MTatHome. We are very well known.

Medical Transcription Jobs at Home

MTatHome.com works with both medical transcriptionist and companies to bring them together.

It is important to know that any reputable training company should tell you that they cannot guarantee anyone a job after training. As we mentioned above, there are too many variables.

Upon completion of the medical transcription course, we promote our students’ resumes to companies, doctors and hospitals. Our medical transcriptionist are trained properly so that they can transcribe the dictations in a timely manner with high accuracy. Please read below to see how we assist both the new MTs that have successfully completed our course with high-accuracy levels & doctors and hospitals that are looking for MTs to fill their job openings from home.

We teach our MTs how to use well known tools to become a more productive MT. The more lines per hour you can produce the more pay you will make! Using software such as text expanders can increase your lines per hour tremendously. We show our students how to create their own text expander with MS Word.

When you present yourself for a Medical Transcription job opening, it is important that you uphold professionalism. Even if you are a thousand miles away from the potential employer you must make sure that you have a quiet place to work, answer phones, etc.

Some companies do have times when they have staff meetings through the use of a web camera. If you are ever in this position, please make sure you are dressed professional. Always answer your phone in a professional way, even if it is simply saying, “Good morning, this is ____________.”

Make sure you have a professional resume. If you are looking for work as an Independent Contractor, then make sure you have a cover letter, brochure and business cards that you can give to doctors’ offices for consideration as potential clients. Many MTs have branched out and started their own medical transcription business instead of just working for one doctor. This is a decision you would have to make as to which direction you would want to go with your career.

As we mentioned earlier; upon completion of the course, we will assist you with the touch ups to your resume at which point your resume is posted and sent out to open positions for new MTs. The types of places we will refer the resume, is to doctors, hospitals, and MT contract companies that hire MTs to "work from home" for their company.

These are job openings for new MTs that have had medical transcription training, with a certificate of completion, and a high-accuracy level. These job openings allow the new MTs to get their foot in the door of building experience. After working for at least one year then you can start applying for most all the online job postings for MTs asking for prior work experience.

Keep in mind that all the MTs that have 1, 2 and 3+ years of experience started as a “new MT” and got their work experience from starting out after their training, just like you!

Therefore, when people try to tell you that there are not positions for new MTs right out of training, then ask them where the experienced MTs got their experience from in the first place! However; with that said, please be aware that the doctors, hospitals, and MT contract companies that will generously give new MTs a chance to get their career started will have some expectations.

They do normally expect for the MT to have a high-accuracy level and to carry professionalism in the work they do for the patient records that are transcribed. While you do have the freedom of being able to work at home for one or more doctors who may be located hundreds of miles away, you do need to treat the job you have out of your home with just as much professionalism, if not more, and then you would if you were at an office job!

Average time to get your first medical transcription job position:

Questions have been asked about the difficulty of finding work as a new medical transcriptionist.

There are jobs all over the USA, for both the new and experienced medical transcriptionist (MTs). Physicians, hospitals and offices are no longer posting job openings for new medical transcriptionist in newspapers or on the Internet.

They use to post job ads that said, "no experience necessary" for MTs; however, the problem is that employers would receive resumes from both qualified MTs and a flood of resumes from those who had never taken a medical transcription course. They even received some from people who did not know what medical transcription was!

This is why most physicians, hospitals, and medical transcription services are posting their openings for new MTs with medical transcription training schools / programs. If you do not see classified listings for new MTs this does not indicate jobs are not available, they are!

The work-at-home medical transcriptionist has the added advantage of not having to be physically near the physician, hospital or office they are “working” for. In short, there are a lot of good-paying jobs out there! It just takes a little time to get your foot in the door.

However, this is true no matter what career field you train for. There are people that go to college for four years, graduate and then find it may take several months to get that first job! This is where we will come in at as well; we will give you job assistance with your medical transcription training.

Digital medical transcription has opened up many new medical transcription jobs across the USA. With the ease of downloading the dictated medical reports and uploading the transcribed documents through a secure connection when completed; working from home is easier today than ever before.

The possibility of making a good income in medical transcription working out of your home no matter what state you live in is excellent!

To find out more about "getting hired" as a medical transcriptionist click on the following web link. Click here to read.

MTatHome Services that we offer to doctors, hospitals, and MT hiring companies:

New medical transcriptionist referral:

If you are a doctor, hospital, or company that is looking for a professional Medical Transcriptionist to handle your dictations; please read further.

We know how important it is to make sure that each patient's report is transcribed accurately, and that it becomes a part of the patient's permanent medical record. It is of the highest importance that each medical transcriptionist is trained properly.

The medical transcription course training that our students receive ensures that each new MT we recommend for a job / project will treat each dictation with the highest of importance, accuracy and will uphold total confidentiality to each record transcribed. MTatHome.com has qualified medical transcriptionist on call ready to do the work.

We can handle all the necessary steps of referring their resume to you. All you have to do is generously supply our office with the job opening information; and we will forward the resumes to you for consideration of being hired by your office. At this time, the only service we offer is referring over the resumes of our new MTs to your office. We do not make the hiring decisions, which is left up to your office / hiring team.

There is no charge to you or the new MT for this service as it is included in the course package as a bonus service.

This is where we submit the resume of a qualified medical transcriptionist to your office in response to a job position that you have submitted to us. This assists you in not having to weed through unqualified resumes of people that have not had proper training.

We will only send you resumes of those that have successfully completed our course and that have a high-accuracy percentage of at least 98%. Once you receive the resumes you could then review them and take care of the hiring and pay decisions.

We can tell you that all of our students get adequate training in digital transcription, terminology, style & format standards according to the AHDI Book of Style, and a variety of different medical field reports on how the completed transcribed report should look, and much more. They are also trained on the HIPAA privacy laws and how to upload files through FTP in a secure method. They are familiar with using software such as Express Scribe for use with digital dictations.

If you have any questions or would like to post a job with us, please contact us at 866-698-5667.

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