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  • if you find out let me know.. I would love to do this
  • I think the hospitals near you contract the work. I also know there must be certain courses taken to certify for medical transcription. Ask the hospital administation for the details.
  • It used to be that most transcription services required one to two years of in-hospital transcription work. It's quite complicated work, requiring you to be able to understand foreign born dictators, and the vocabulary is immense. Since most hospitals now have their transcription done by services (many overseas, by the way), I have no idea how you would get the necessary training. If I were starting out again, I'd go work at a doctor's office doing transcription, or even better a radiology clinic. Become an expert in a specialty a service gets a lot of work in (Radiology for example) and try to snag a job with a small service. I cannot emphasize enough that medical transcription is a lot more than just being able to type accurately. The accuracy required is critical, the vocabulary is immense. Personally I would not advise anyone to go to a medical transcription school. If you can't walk into a doctor's office with enough spelling and grammatical skills and savvy to do simple clinic transcription (with maybe one person watching over you the first month or two to make sure you're doing it right), then you're not going to make any money in this field anyway. Schools are in business to take your money.

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