Week in Review for May 5 – 11

Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for May 5 – 11. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week–if you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in touch with me at Hava L {at} Families dot com! Thanks for reading! Saturday, May 5 Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Three and Four continue the interview started last week with my alma matter Career Step. Sunday, May 6 Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Five and Six finish that … Continue reading

Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Six

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. For part five of this interview, please click here. Here is last of the interview with Amanda, the Administrative Assistant at Career Step: What MT companies have hired Career Step grads, and have said that they are interested in hiring more? Those who hire Career Step’s graduates regularly are Spheris, Focus Infomatics, MedQuist, Sten-tel, Amphion, Encompass, CMT Corporation, MxSecure, All Type, Princeton, Assistmed, OSI, OzeScribe, and … Continue reading

Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Five

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. For part four of this interview, please click here. Here is part five of the interview with Amanda, the Administrative Assistant at Career Step: If the student already has experience in the medical field, is there is “fast track” option? Career Step does not currently offer a “fast track” option. However, students are welcome to take the end of unit tests and if they achieve an … Continue reading

Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Four

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. For part three of this interview, please click here. Here is part four of the interview with Amanda, the Administrative Assistant at Career Step: Are there any limits on how long the course is “good for” (ie, do students have to purchase extensions after a certain amount of time, and if so, how much are the extensions)? The Career Step Medical Transcription training program requires approximately … Continue reading

An Introduction to Transcription

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