You already have an excellent background that will make you attractive to companies that employ medical transcriptionists. Your typing skills are excellent, and you already have a background in medical terminology. I’m not sure you’ll need a refresher course. Medical terms are a combination of very consistent prefixes, suffixes, and root words. If you know those, you can decipher most unfamiliar medical terms. What you may need to brush up on are the latest abbreviations and acronyms, such as NOTES, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.
Working at home requires a different set of skills. Are you disciplined and self-motivated? Can you schedule regular work hours at your home office, or will you be tempted to turn on the TV and watch Rachel Ray rather than complete assignments? Even though you’ll be working from home, you still need to treat it like a real job.
I’ve worked from home for the past 16 years now and have found it to be perfect for me…it offers flexibility and eliminates transportation issues.
You don’t need a refresher. Buy the AAMT Book of Style and just start applying. Check out MT Daily jobs board. You’ll pick up an at home job fast w/ your resume. If you REALLY want to brush up on your medical terminology, Meditec.com offers a terminology course for inexpensive. They also recruit for an MT service and can test you and place you. References :
Sounds like you might be qualified, but most at-home companies want you to have at least 1 year of recent acute care experience. You have never had acute care experience, and the closest thing you had to it wasn’t recent.
I think if you found someone wanting to hire you to type mental health notes that would work out for you, but I wouldn’t waste too much time applying for acute care positions. References :
You already have an excellent background that will make you attractive to companies that employ medical transcriptionists. Your typing skills are excellent, and you already have a background in medical terminology. I’m not sure you’ll need a refresher course. Medical terms are a combination of very consistent prefixes, suffixes, and root words. If you know those, you can decipher most unfamiliar medical terms. What you may need to brush up on are the latest abbreviations and acronyms, such as NOTES, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.
Working at home requires a different set of skills. Are you disciplined and self-motivated? Can you schedule regular work hours at your home office, or will you be tempted to turn on the TV and watch Rachel Ray rather than complete assignments? Even though you’ll be working from home, you still need to treat it like a real job.
I’ve worked from home for the past 16 years now and have found it to be perfect for me…it offers flexibility and eliminates transportation issues.
I wish you success in your at-home venture.
Cyndy
http://www.theaccidentalmedicalwriter.com
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You don’t need a refresher. Buy the AAMT Book of Style and just start applying. Check out MT Daily jobs board. You’ll pick up an at home job fast w/ your resume. If you REALLY want to brush up on your medical terminology, Meditec.com offers a terminology course for inexpensive. They also recruit for an MT service and can test you and place you.
References :
Sounds like you might be qualified, but most at-home companies want you to have at least 1 year of recent acute care experience. You have never had acute care experience, and the closest thing you had to it wasn’t recent.
I think if you found someone wanting to hire you to type mental health notes that would work out for you, but I wouldn’t waste too much time applying for acute care positions.
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