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Breaking into VR - YesDear

Posted: Sep 01, 2010

Looking to break into VR Editing. Can anybody give me any tips? What companies hire for this. I am a 52-yo medical transcriptionist with 20+ years experience and I am in the need of something different. I am looking for a parttime position. Two friends gave me two different leads, but I see one had massive lay-offs today and the other wants experienced VR Editors only. Any tips will be greatly appreciated:)

YesDear, do you handle punctuation and grammar - Long-time Editor

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on the fly as you transcribe, seldom needing to go back for adjustment? Was the last QAer bothering you about punctuation errors more because the QAer was a dingdong than your errors? Are you a fast reader when you get going, able to skim accurately? Do you, or could you answer the gram/punc questions that come up on these boards? Is your niche quick but punctilious, rather than quantity at any cost? If yes to all these, I'm guessing you'll do quite fine as an editor.

These days almost all companies are looking for editors, so with a pleasantly positive attitude to offer "breaking in" should be pretty easy. (As opposed to all those people still trying to avoid editing.) BTW, if you've ever been given messy reports to clean up after bad MTs had at them, you HAVE prior experience editing. That's the job, SR being the sloppy transcriptionist.

Regarding "massive layoffs," if you mean Webmedx, it's apparently only a relatively few people on a specific account. Mercifully.

What does it really matter if you are a speed reader? SM - anon

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I read very fast with good comprehension, always have, but it doesn't help much when I still have to plod along with 100% text to audio listen. I can't increase speed too much as the sound distorts. I use M-Modal so probably 'nuff said. Not a great system.

I read/scan ahead of dictation looking for and correcting - Long-Time Editor

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errors, while continuing to listen to the dictation for areas already scanned, ready to hop back if it varies from text. To do this well usually requires good familiarity with dictators, and I by choice only work on a few accounts. (There's still variety from dictators and specialties/report types that don't come by so often.)

I only stay with, or within a line of, a whole area of text that ISR's goofed up badly OR with dictators who are not familiar to me. Any plodding is as short as possible, then I'm cruising again until the next plod.

This requires ease of comprehension and speed but pays off nicely (as in $$). Dictation is sped up as often and as fast as I can handle--up up, down, down again, up up up, down, whatever, as the reports come through.

Oh, forgot to mention--I'm on M*Modal also and it's just fine at my company. And my QA scores are always high.

BTW, for anyone who works too many accounts to do this and isn't satisfied with earnings, I recommend dumping the extras. They're costing you big time, both this way and because you can't stuff your expander with the usual phrases of and corrections for the most frequent dictators. Dump the employer and find another if that's what it takes to get that speed up.

Happy Labor Day. :)

Hmm, I'm going to start with a better attitude tomorrow and implement those techniques. sm - anon

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I have decent accounts other than one, but when that one sends work, I may as well hang it up for the day. It's very irritating though that the speech machine has not learned much of anything over the year it's been used. Still way too much correcting. But anyway, thanks for the reply, and I look forward to seeing what a new day brings.

Great, Anon! My sympathies for that one account. - Long-time Editor

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My primary is a very standard regional medical center, but it replaced one that made me not want to sign on at all, so I do appreciate it. Anyway, I have almost everybody there nailed now, so it's a pretty good money machine.

Hope you find yourself a satisfying new groove, or set of grooves maybe, to cruise along in soon.

VR editing - pywacket

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I went to work for Transcend having never done VR, but have been a very accurate MT for more than 20 years. Had no trouble adjusting to their VR platform and maintaining my usual line counts and accuracy. And I LOVE my team lead. I'm usually very dependable and available for emergencies/OT, and she frequently expresses her appreciation (unlike Breitner or MedQuist). This past month, I've had major computer problems and a move to a new home during which I broke my foot, and she still treats me like every time I show up on her screen is a delight.

I work at Transcend too and you must have the same TL - sm

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It feels good to know you are appreciated!

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