Medical Transcription

Medical transcription is a health care field’s profession and sometimes simply known as MT. The process involves the transcriptionist converting the recordings or dictations, made by health care professionals, into text format which are then added to the patient’s medical file. For a person to work as professional medical transcriptionist, he/she has to go through medical training which takes eighteen to twenty four months to complete and includes mastering medical terminologies, using transcription devices and typing skills.

Only people with a technical certificate or an associate’s degree are acceptable to work as a medical transcriptionist. A person with at least one year of experience in the field is often preferred because he/she has the ability to identify mistakes and also how to include correct information in the patient’s file. This improves the doctor’s efficiency because the chances of patients receiving harmful treatments are reduced.

The average pay for an on site medical transcriptionist in hospitals is eight to ten dollars an hour. According to research, about 36 percent of employed medical transcriptionists work on site with hospitals, another 23 percent work with doctors in their private offices and about 41 percent work independently allowing them to work easily from home.