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Looking for entry level medical transcription work in MN - katiekamrad

Posted: Mar 03, 2010

Hi everyone. I am a recent graduate from Rasmussen online college with a 2 year degree in medical transcription. I just graduated in September. I did land a very very part time homed medical transcription job in mid November and was let go in January because the lady I subcontracted for told me she needed me to be perfect within 2 months and I wasn't delivering the kind of perfection she needed. I kept reminding her that I had 0 medical transcription experience before my education training and very minimal internship experience. She hired me based on the fact that I have a 2 year degree not a 9 month training diploma. I talked to my career services advisor about her expecations on me being a newbie and she said her expectations were way too high and that she shouldn't have hired me if she wanted me to be perfect right away. To make the long story short, when she hired me she said it would take me at least 6 months to be good at what I was doing, and she fired me after 2 months because I wasn't perfect enough. I was only making small grammar errors.

I am currently back a square one, looking for entry level medical transcription work, hopefully working from home again. I would like to work fulltime and I'm even willing to take non medical transcription work. If anyone knows of any medical transcription services that are hiring newbies like me with little job experience please let me know. Even if it is an out of state transcription service that is willing to hire me to work from home and take a test I would be willing to do that. I already applied for MedQuist and failed their tests twice and I am in the processing of getting my test reviewed with RI Unlimited. If anyone can suggest anything else for me I would greatly appreciate it and pass on the word to other newbies. Thank you.

company to hire - listed below

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I am sure it is probably an old post by now, but a newbie did mention in a post below the name of a company hiring newbies. Read some posts below.

If you get a job with a transcription company, it does not matter where you live. So would not necessarily need to be in MN. Where in MN are you from? I am from MN also.

Jumpstart Progam? - katiekamrad

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Hi fellow MN,
Are you talking about the Jumpstart program mentioned in previous post?
Can you tell me what the company name is?
By the way, I'm from Eagan, MN.
And where in MN are you from?

I live in St. Paul MN myself and work on-line doing MT - LindaK

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There are some places that do hire newbies if you look at www.mtjobs.com would be one example, just look through the list. I have been doing this for 25 years. If I can help in anyway please feel free to e-mail me.

In Minnesota - way up north

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I am way up north in Roseau, near the border. I did live in Minneapolis for 15 years and worked at the University Hospital when they actually had a transcription department; now they have outsourced all their work too

In Minnesota - Same thing here

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I'm in Crookston! Clinics here all went to EMR. I'm not too impressed when I go to the doctor and it takes 20 minutes to register, another 15 minutes for the nurse to point and click instead of scribbling in the chart, and I'm sure even longer when it finally gets down the line to the doctor. Talk about a bunch of wasted time and money. I'd like to know how they think that's efficient. I'm probably more biased in my opinion of thinking it sucks though considering it's putting me out of a job.

Small grammar errors count too. - deb

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Were you learning from your mistakes, or did you keep making the same ones?

With all the experienced MTs running out of work, it's going to be pretty hard to get a new job, especially with no experience, if you can't pass transcription tests. I think you should complain to your school that you paid them to teach you MT, but you are failing transcription tests and can't get a job.

reply to deb - katiekamrad

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Hi deb,

At first I made the same mistakes but after I got a system down,which took about a month and a half, the lady that hired me let me go before I could prove myself. I did hear that it's very hard to get into Medquist and that's the only place I did grammar testing. I haven't heard back yet from the other 2 places I tested as they said it would take a week or two to give me my results back.

MT schools do NOT teach grammar, high schools do! - grammar

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nm

Complain to school? - workingmt

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And it's the school's fault she can't get a job because.....?

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