As has already been established, most medical transcription is outsourced to large medical transcription service providers. Very little transcription (as a percentage of the whole) is performed by transcriptionists working in hospitals and medical clinics. It has been proven to be far more efficient to outsource this duty to companies that specialize in medical transcription production. There are significant economies of scale that come into play allowing MTSO’s, as they are called in the industry, to perform services in the most economical and efficient manner possible.
For better or for worse, one of the great efficiencies of this outsourced production model is implementation of a pay-for-production wage system. And one of the inevitable side effects of this system of establishing medical transcription wages is that it virtually eliminated traditional mentor programs. Medical transcriptionists and their employers – the medical transcription service providers are all in the same boat. They all work for the hospital and the hospital only pays for work actually transcribed. There is an enormous incentive to produce that work as quickly, as efficiently, and as cheaply as possible. Consequently, there is no room in this production model for hand holding an inexperienced transcriptionist or one who lacks the requisite training. This is why the on the job training model no longer exists in the medical transcription industry. Medical transcription employers today demand documented medical transcription training and experience – or at least one or the other.
The same logic holds in trying to find a practicing MT to help mentor and train you on an individual basis. Unfortunately, while it would be a terrific option to find a willing tutor, the average medical transcriptionist is working on a production based pay scale and every hour devoted to your tutoring is an hour of lost production and lost wages. Considering that it would likely take hundreds of hours to train someone properly, it is not an investment that most – or maybe any – medical transcriptionists would be willing to make, regardless of how much they cared about you.
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I will say here that my spouse is a highly skilled medical transcriptionist and she became a highly skilled transcriptionist under the expert tutelage of her mother. However, that was over 20 years ago and times were different. Her mother doesn’t love her any less today, but it doesn’t make the same economic sense, particularly when there is an extremely affordable option to receive the medical transcription training you require from the comfort of your own home and at your own pace. And the best part? There is no need to quit your full time job. It can be done in less than a year on a part time basis, provided that you are focused and committed.
