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Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part One

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Today is the first of the blogs about Career Step, the third medical transcription school I have highlighted on here, and the last one I’ll be highlighting on here. There are quite a few other medical transcription schools out there, but these three are the largest and most popular of the group. If you want a full list of all approved AAMT (American Association of Medical … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription: Expanders are Your Friend

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This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. As any medical transcriptionist will tell you, expanders truly are your friend. For anyone new to the transcription business, a text expander is a program where you can type “hpi” and it will expand out to “History of Present Illness,” a phrase used often in the MT world. This is just one example–there are literally millions more. Text expanders, when used right, can save a transcriptionist … Continue reading →

An Introduction to Transcription

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Hello, and welcome to my series on the transcription field! I decided to focus on transcription because many of the readers here at Families are stay-at-home mothers and fathers who are interested in finding work they can do at home, and transcription is one of the few legitimate work-at-home jobs out there that does not require you to be on the phones all day long. I hope this series helps people who have never heard of the field to understand what it is, what personality traits you ought to have to be a transcriptionist, and how to get started if … Continue reading →