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Interesting facts - Local colleges and medical transcription

Posted: Jun 12, 2012

I think it's really something that the local colleges around me are not teaching their medical transcription programs anymore after 20+ years. What does that tell everybody???

I will tell you what it tells me---and I am seeing the same thing - sm

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Most of these schools are very poor. The students arenâ��t getting much of an education. The fact that they canâ��t find or keep good MT jobs is nothing new. It has been that way for years. Most of the resources go to the â��hotâ�� courses that are bringing in more money for the schools. In fact, often the instructors are people who have never worked in medical transcription. No wonder their results are so bad! They also don't have enough really solid transcription practice or time to learn everything an MT needs to know.

School said MT is phasing out... - blondie

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Jobs are no longer readily available at hospitals, clinics, etc. They said they are not offering it for that reason. Work is either outsourced to these outsource companies (which anybody who got a degree to work at would be INSANE) or either EPIC is doing a majority of the work with much less need for MTs. So they do not offer it around here either. I'm going back to school myself for something else.

Same here. School here is offering medical assistant, phlebotomist, surg tech which is my 1st choic - mt_not_for_long

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Epic - Inquiring minds

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Please educate yourself on Epic, it does not do the work, it is an electronic health record and MTs are needed. Our workload is so heavy that we are fully staffed and outsource our overflow. Our local MT programs was phased out years ago, because they could not find qualified instructors or students who knew how to spell.

I am educated.. - blondie

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Know MTs who worked at local hospital and are losing jobs because not as many MTs are needed with the EPIC. MTs are needed but not NEAR as many there. You must have a different type of EMR system. Not having qualified instructors was not the reason at junior college here as they had the same instructors teaching it for years before. Don't know about students not being able to spell, but I don't think it's a problem here. Don't know where you're from.

Two CCs in my state just dropped their MT program, too. It's telling. (nm) - MTontheGo

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MT profession - MT

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What I have been trying to figure out is what is the longer term outlook for the MT profession? Will there someday be no work available? Will there always be work available but much less? I saw a post somewhere that said that the MT profession will probably last 10 years. What is the real truth? I wonder if anyone really has a good idea of what will happen.

Transcription courses - MT

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It may mean that since many now make only minimum wage, the colleges don't think people will be interested in taking a course for this profession. But that does not necessarily mean that the profession will end for those who already have training.

I wonder what type of training they get in India for ASR?

It means they make more money on medical assistant or nursing courses - see message

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They are limited in space. They've always made more money on courses for medical assistant or nursing, almost anything in hands-on patient care. Those are the money-makers for community colleges and vocational schools. MT has always been sort of an add on in case anyone wanted to do it. Now it doesn't pay for itself and they want to add other courses. They can't until they get rid of some.

It has to do with THEM (community colleges) and THEIR needs - nm

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