Tag Archives: M-Tec

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 →

Medical Transcription Schools: M-TEC, 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. This is the last of the M-TEC interviews with Susan, Director of M-TEC. This blog we cover what support is available to graduates going out into the medical transcription field: Is there graduate support offered to newly graduated students, to help them get their first job? Absolutely. We are currently looking at a near perfect placement rate … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription Schools: M-TEC, 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. These questions cover the medical transcription schooling itself, and the support offered to the students. Again, here is Susan, Director of M-TEC: What medium does M-TEC incorporate when teaching (tapes, CDs, Internet, books, forums, etc)? M-TEC uses CD as well as digital files for our transcription. We use college-level textbooks and workbooks for our core competencies of … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription Schools: M-TEC, Part Two

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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 one of this interview, please click here. These questions cover tuition costs and how to offset those costs. Again, here is Susan, Director of M-TEC: How much is the tuition for M-TEC, and what does that include? Tier I Premier is $3395.00. This includes all college-level textbooks/workbooks, medical transcription on CD with transcriber software built in, foot pedal, reference books, individual instructor support, technology … Continue reading →

Medical Transcription Schools: M-TEC, Part One

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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. As a part of the transcription series, I am focusing on the medical transcription schools that you can attend to receive your medical transcription certificate. M-TEC is the school I am going to focus on today and tomorrow–it is widely respected school, and I personally have several friends who attended M-TEC and loved it. These first three questions are general questions; my next blog will cover … Continue reading →

A Bit of History about Medical Transcription Schools

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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. I have to admit: I am slightly biased when it comes to choosing a medical transcription school, if only because Career Step is my alma matter. Actually, I’m not sure if it can count as an alma matter because I never graduated, but the basic thought is there. 😛 I attended Career Step, and therefore I know it’s a good school. That does not mean, however, … 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 →