How to do Medical Transcription from Home:
I would like to give you the road map to a successful home medical transcription career. I had been a home medical transcriptionist for 5 years. Based on the experiences that I had gained during the time, I would like to help people who want to do medical transcription from home and pursue a career.
So, here we go! If you would like to pursue a work from home medical transcription career, what are the steps that you need to take to achieve the desired goal? I will explain this step by step below.
In order to do medical transcription from home, a medical transcriptionist needs to have basic English grammar and comprehension skills. You may have this skill already from your basic school education.
A work from home medical transcriptionist needs to have a good understanding of medical terminology. If you are studying medical transcription at present or if you plan to study from any of the medical transcription training schools, they would provide you all the necessary text books to study medical terminology.
If you are not in a position to do a medical transcription course at present but want to learn medical terminology, I would recommend you to buy a valuable book titled "The Language of Medicine" written by Davi-Ellen Chabner. This is the gold standard for studying medical terminology, particularly for medical transcriptionists.
You need to have good typing skill to do medical transcription from home. You can download a free typing software from the internet called "TypingMaster Pro" for practicing typing and can get good speed in a short span of time.
Medical transcriptionists have to transcribe recorded dictations of physicians. To do medical transcription from home, you need to practice transcribing audio files of varying accents and various specialties of medicine. If you are going through or have a plan of going through medical transcription training, it is well and good. As you are planning for a home medical transcription career, you may have a look at this eBook titled "The Step-by-Step Guide to Medical Transcription at Home" written by Michele Miller, who runs a successful home-based medical transcription business since 1994. Even if you are in the middle of a medical transcription course, this guide would certainly be useful for setting up your own work from home medical transcription business.
A good training of course is one of the best ways to start a medical transcription career. Same as to other industries out there, education and training is one of the essential things employers will look at in considering to hire you as one of their workers.
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