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Week in Review for May 5 – 11

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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 →

The “Two Years Experience” Fallacy

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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. Now that you’ve graduated, you’ve hit the want ads online, and you may have become a little panicked when you saw that many companies required two years experience, and some even required three or four. This can be extremely discouraging to newbies, and seems to fly right in the face of what I said earlier, that this is a huge work-at-home market, and that you should … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Five

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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. 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

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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. 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 →

Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Three

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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. For part two of this interview, please click here. Here is part three of the interview with Amanda, the Administrative Assistant at Career Step: Are there any scholarships offered by Career Step? Career Step’s Scholarship Program is based on the financial need of the applicant. In order to qualify for a scholarship, an applicant must complete the scholarship application and write the required essay. The 1-2 … Continue reading →

Week in Review for April 21 – 27

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Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for April 21 – 27. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week! This week, we had a lot of fun talking about transcription, and then medical transcription in particular. 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, April 21 Are Medical Transcriptionists Going the Way of Dinosaurs? talks about the idea that most people seem to … 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 →