continuing education
Posted By: proud CMT on 2006-01-09
In Reply to: IMO, the COST of being a CMT (attending sm - ex-CMT
Spending all of your vacation time and time off working on continuing education credits? WOW, that has not been my experience at all. It is not that time consuming to get your credits. You have 3 years to get your credits in and if you do it a little at a time within those 3 years, I don't find it very time consuming at all. I think if you wait until the last possible moment, as in procrastination, then it would be a pain to have to go into panic mode to get your credits in a short time, but if you keep up with it every year and do a little here and there, it certainly is not a big deal and usually enjoyable (I love to learn!).
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Why not just call them instead of continuing to
e-mail. If you are really planning to quit I'm sure they would love to get your resignation letter, more work to go around for the others. If you are just trying to manipulate them forget it.
I've thought about that and continuing
to MT. The only thing that stopped me was one account I have is a rad account that I sometimes do not finish until after 3. If it wasn't for that it would have been perfect extra money job.
Thank you - that doesn't sound good. Continuing to look ......nm
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Where did she get her education?
Where did she go to school and why aren't they stepping up and doing the right thing? If a school takes someone's dough, they owe them some placement assistance.....
Do you have any transcription education?
You say you have a degree in English and Communication Arts, but dont mention any medical transcription education. This is a very specialized field and without the proper training is very hard. There is a lot of formatting aspects that is not even covered in English education.
The only thing you can really do is do research on here about a company and ask questions before taking the position. This is with any job that you take whether transcription or not.
Wish you luck.
that's nooooot education.. lol
I agree that what you say could be true, a feeling many of us have about many of those companies; but that's only an opinion based on observations, and you can bet the ad lister has a different one...and is the very method most often used to manage in this industry. big decisions get made on someone's whim, and then 100,000 others live like it's the truth.. it seems like it is why people here argue so uch.. ; people keep confusing the thoughts and opinoins as the truth and then argue madly to be right. it's kuckooo. that note took me about an hour to write because i am so tired i am nodding off every other word. i agree with educate thyself, but i'd caution that has not taken place here. i suppose they could be very ineffective and inefficient recruiters as well. and likely much more. i must be gone now. i hope i finished a few sentences..
your lack of education
with regard to the profession and how businesses are run seems to make it difficult for you to understand the big picture here.
I've been in this field for a very long time and it's people who think screw the rest, I'm in it for me (this is the impression I take away from your responses) that have made it possible for a service owner (a position I also once held) to offer crap pay, no benefits, high expectations.
If you are an IC and allow yourself to be treated as an employee, you can also be creating issues with the IRS, and if your employer is found to be using ICs as employees and not paying appropriately, they can incur significant fines.
Downside is, yes, an MTSO then has the right to decline to employ you. But if MTs would refuse this type of treatment, the offers might be more in line with what's a fair earned wage.
Yes, but we need to be PAID according to our education
It is theft of services in my opinion to perform the same job - using our same knowledge and experience, mind you - takes just as long, if not longer, to edit a VR report than a typed report. We use the same knowledge base that WE have paid for ourselves that these companies now want to pay us half for.
Just because a lawyer's office did away with human secretaries, do you think they would cut the charge for their services (knowledge AND education) in half as we are expected to do with VR?
This is the only industry where they think they don't have to pay for our knowledge base. They want to pick our brains to train the damned machines and then cut our salary so THEY can put more money in their greedy pockets.
That is the bottom line.
Education. Think that I could get a job teaching and
Or at least partial forgiveness if I don't get a very high paying job at first. A dream of mine and the gov't is encouraging with loans and grants, so I decided to go for it. It will be hard work studying but then again it will help make ends meet and I will have a future, rather than sitting and feeling sorry for myself as an MT like do lately. Thanks for asking.
Education doesn't matter in MT because it's become
It's better to get a bachelor's degree. It goes much further than an MT certificate or an associate's. You get what you pay for.
Yes, I remember making 11-12 cents a line back in the early 1990s when this industry started going into the home, but those days are long gone. Time to regroup and think of something better to do for a living before we're making less than the 16-year-olds at Dairy Queen because, believe me, there will always be desperate poor people who will work for peanuts be it on American soil or elsewhere.
This industry is fast on its way to hell in a handbasket.
I'm an MT with an excellent education, experience in
sterling references. Spheris did offer me a position at a $hitty rate and when the recruiter started to talk account details (covering many accounts, absurd schedule - THEY assigned me F-M middle of the night and COMPLETE INFLEXIBILITY AND UNWILLINGNESS TO DISCUSS ANYTHING OTHER THAN THEIR AGENDA), I immediately moved on. It took me about a second to find a job that paid almost 3 cpl more than them, was able to negotiate the worktype (OP notes) I wanted and a schedule that worked for both of us. I have been happily working my tail off for this employer to be sure that the dregs of world like Spheris stays in their pit. MTs working for them hurt other MTs by going along with their nonsense. 
There are better MT education programs out there (M-Tec and Andrews) but
CS does have segment of their program that Spheris is involved with. However, my understanding is starting pay for newbies at Spheris is low, even by today's standards.
My suggestion would be to check out other schooling options and other companies to work for before taking the leap. Do some searching of the archives here for more info both on schools and employers. (Also, you should be aware that CS has an affiliate program where people make money by getting others to sign up for their course so you may want to take any rave reviews with a grain of salt.)
Does Amphion hire newbies with MT education? nm
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NO! For 25 years of acute care exp and exc education
completely. It was their way or the highway. It took me about 2 minutes to get a job that paid 3 cpl more with very, very flexible scheduling. Their flexibility and pay bought them an accurate, high-production MT that is 100% reliable and accountable.
Also, as time goes on, Spheris' benefits have eroded. I believe they eliminated PTO for PT. There is no question in my mind that more and more will be taken away and pretty soon their MTs will be working for crap, have high insurance premiums, PTO and holiday time cut.
BTW, the suits are gorging themselves on huge profits while MTs, the ones that make this all happen, get the shaft. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a suit in one of their swank offices who does nothing but figure out how to reduce/eliminate MT costs (and likely get a huge bonus for screwing MTs for the benefit of executives).
Kind of like an education at liberal arts college...
is it necessary that I know Henry Moore is a sculptor in order to get my Bachelor's degree in Science? No...just makes me a more well-rounded individual (and NO, not my shape!). Hahaha
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