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Is This A Sign? - earlymusicus
Posted: Oct 15, 2010
The other evening at the grocery store, I picked up the newest issue of Employment Guide. You've probably seen it - it's usually by the doors to the store, and it's a nationwide publication. It used to list actual job openings for the local area. Now, though, it seems to be mainly an ad newspaper for schools offering career training. Anyway, what struck me about this issue is that none of the schools that have always advertised in this paper list medical transcription as training that they offer. They used to. I know, because while I was taking my coursework, I always picked up this paper and looked through it, and I always saw "medical transcription" in the bulleted lists of programs offered through these schools (Kaplan, Everest, etc.). They still list training for pharmacy technician, medical assisting, medical billing/coding - but not medical transcription.
Is this a sign that the field really is on its deathbed?
Yes, the death knell is sounding - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Medical transcriptionists are going the way of the passenger pigeon, the dodo bird and the Edsel.
I noticed that too at the school I attended - cjr
[ In Reply To ..]I went to Fortis Institute and got my certificate in Medical Transcription/Insurance Billing. They still have that listed as a course BUT when you click on it, it takes you to a page where the course is actually Medical Billing and Coding. Even in the Bureau of Job statistics, it states that Transcriptionists job outlook will be rising until about 2016. I still have hope but will admit my doubts.
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