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Question about teaching hospitals - anonymouse

Posted: Jul 08, 2011

I have a questions for the MTs who are currently working on teaching hospitals. How do you like them and what do you feel the pros and cons are with them?

My Thoughts - Neo-Oracle

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PROS: Interesting stuff and will keep you up to date on the latest and greatest. Wide variety. Challenging. Usually dictated by residents who, while long-winded, are usually marginally better than attendings.

CONS: Usually so much staff that there is little opportunity to get used to individual doctors. In addition to regular staff additions, the residents/interns rotate and change regularly. The challenging that is a pro can also be a con; some of the stuff that is new is so new that it takes a little extra digging to find it. Because of their size, they also seem to want all their reports 5 minutes ago, so they tend to be overstaffed which frequently leaves the MTs scrambling for work.

As a rule, though, it's a lot more interesting than clinic and if you know your stuff, it can help keep the job from getting too monotonous.

My take on teaching hospitals - from my experience

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PROS:
If you hate one or more of the residents, no problem - they'll rotate out before too long.

I found that the residents were usually far superior dictators to the regular doctors. Much more careful.

The work was usually much more interesting than the usual day-in-day-out things you type for other institutions. More rare diseases and new, cutting-edge procedures.

CONS:
If you like one or more of the residents, too bad - they'll rotate out before too long.

The only problem with the residents being more careful, was that their reports tended to be very, very long. Still, if paid for straight typing, longer reports usually generate a better income.

With all the cutting-edge-ness of the teaching hospitals, comes procedures, equipment, and drugs you not only never heard of, but are too new to be in any of the references, as well. I tended to spend a lot more time reasearching terms with the teaching hospitals.

question for from my experience - anonymouse

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With all the researching you had to do but on the other hand with having the residents be far more superior dictators, did you find it hard at all to reach your lph goals?

Yes, but I attribute that more to their ridiculously - complicated job description, and - sm

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the MTSO's user-unfriendly transcription software. The hospital was extremely picky about things, but still, I found that particular account enjoyable and challenging. I learned a lot while working on it. It would've been my favorite account ever, if only they (the hospital and the MTSO) had just left us alone to do our jobs and do them well. Unfortunately, nothing ever seemed to be good enough for them, so I saved myself the stress, and changed accounts.

PS: With constant resident rotation, having up-to- - date resident lists is KEY to production! nm

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completely agree! - Jackie

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I completely with what the other 2 posters have said.

Usually it's easily within your grasp to reach your LPH goals, even with residents.

Yup that's what I'd say - but love my hospital

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