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Getting Aggravated With MedTrans Ads - cjr

Posted: Oct 19, 2010

I see their ad all of the time and I always fall for it and apply. But all they are is recruiters selling their "course". Yet their ads state they are 'hiring'. I'm about at the end of my rope. Services need expereinced MTs. Yet, I can't get hired to get the experience. I have networked myself to every doctor office I see locally but no one calls. Or I get 'Oh, we're using EMR and phasing out our transcription department. Aacck...think I made a mistake going to school. Sorry for the vent, I am just so disgusted...

Feel The Same Way - Tara

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I feel exactly the same way as you! All of the companies I have applied to (at least 30) have all turned me down! I called a dozen of OB/GYN offices in the phone book because that is the specialty I did for my internship, and I got quite good at it. They all gave me the same response that you got.

I feel like I made a mistake also. I'd better get a job fast because in March, in addition to the student loans I am paying off now, I will have to pay off more from THIS college! I am getting angry!

Me, too - earlymusicus

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I just graduated in May from a one-year medical transcription program at a local two-year college. It took me two years to complete the program, due to the way the required courses were scheduled. I have had no luck at all with jobs, and having read the postings by experience MTs over on the Main Board, I've already given up on this field. Something I noticed last week: I picked up the weekly issue of The Employment Guide. This is a nationwide newspaper you often find at the entrances to grocery stores and restaurants. It used to list job openings in the local area but now seems to be mainly a place for career training schools to advertise their programs. What caught my attention is the fact that the schools that a few months ago listed "medical transcription" as one of the training programs they offered, no longer list it. That tells me this field is dead. I've been kicking myself for having wasted my money on what I thought was training for a viable career but isn't. I'm back to applying for general clerical jobs now. I always wondered why, when I asked my transcription instructor about how the jobs seemed to be drying up, she would either duck the question or change the subject. I think they knew that it was no longer a viable career, but didn't say anything to us students. They were looking out for their jobs, I understand, but still... oh, well.

Earlymusicus - Susan

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The field is not dead at all; it is changing, as is the rest of the world, with the new technologies available to us. MT is not what it was 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. I have mentored many students in the past and the things I think are important are to graduate from a program that uses the SUM program and to ask any program BEFORE enrolling what percentage of their students find jobs. Frankly, I have found many college programs to be inadequate. My preference to hire would be people from Andrews or M-TEC. I have never yet known an Andrews grad who could not get a job right away. That tells me something. And no, I am not and I have never been, affiliated with Andrews or any other MT school. Good luck to you. I hope you find what you are looking for.

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