most of my MTs come from Community Colleges
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toni on 2008-07-20
In Reply to: Regarding schools - did you ever notice that (see message) - Deb
This insistence on Andrews or M-Tec makes me very uneasy. I've been responsible for hiring and training thousands of MTs and even I don't know these two schools that well and I rarely see graduates from there. I know they have good student support. I do see lots of graduates from Career Step. BTW, the Career Step grads are not well prepared for employment- not at all. Not like you'd think from reading current posts. Most of my past hires from Career Step failed to stick with it. Only a small percentage could hold up- bad typing skills- but good on terminology.
Most of our employees (MTs) are either graduates of community colleges or staffing schools that we contract with. If Andrews and M-Tec were as dominant as you read here, I'd expect the only good MTs to have come from those schools and I don't. I didn't go there. I've done fine. I've never had a problem being hired in my early days as an MT. I went to a community college and they used HPI publications.
I think this insistence on a "big three" is very misleading. As a person who hires and trains, I know you don't need to attend one of these 3 schools to get a job. Attitude has far more to do with it than book training anyway. We'd much rather have a graduate with a poorer education who has a great attitude than the reverse. The education can be improved quickly while the attitude is impossible to change.
I will just take your word for it that these 2 schools have great classes, but why all this drum beating when there are untold numbers of excellent community college programs and also staffing schools. How about Mentoring Internships too? There are lots of resources that my MTs have used to become well educated.
However, there are "schools" that are nothing but internet marketing machines. It is obvious who they are. They are the ones who sell diplomas for almost anything. New students should definitely beware of those. Medical Transcription is too difficult to learn from a mail order house. You can't sit in isolation at home and learn medical transcription very easily and that is the big trap, IMO. This is not like getting your real estate license and only needing to pass 1 test to get a job.
That's my view from my corner of the world.
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