Medical Transcription Career Handbook
by Keith A. Drake, Drake
Publisher: Prentice HallPages: 149
Paperback
ISBN: 9780130115409
Overview of Medical Transcription Career Handbook
Helping users land that first job and build a successful career in medical transcription, this essential handbook offers practical guidelines and tips in job search strategies, career development, opportunities for advancement, and much more. Presents effective job hunting skills, with in-depth chapters on the job search process and preparing your resume. Shares inside tricks-of-the-trade, and provides a full chapter on home-based transcription that includes discussions on developing independent business skills (such as sales), marketing, tax and records. Explores internet skills for medical transcriptionists, job hunting, and medical researching on the web. Enriches material with numerous case studies and includes many web-site addresses for further exploration.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis of Medical Transcription Career Handbook
Helping users land that first job and build a successful career in medical transcription, this essential handbook offers practical guidelines and tips in job search strategies, career development, opportunities for advancement, and much more. Presents effective job hunting skills, with in-depth chapters on the job search process and preparing your resume. Shares inside tricks-of-the-trade, and provides a full chapter on home-based transcription that includes discussions on developing independent business skills (such as sales), marketing, tax and records. Explores internet skills for medical transcriptionists, job hunting, and medical researching on the web. Enriches material with numerous case studies and includes many web-site addresses for further exploration.
Julie Hosley
In this small introductory handbook, a guide for the potential transcriptionist, employment aspects are covered rather than the mechanics of transcripting. "The author introduces prospective students or on-the-job transcriptionists to the potential working environment in either an in-house or home-based situation. He seeks to prevent unrealistic expectations of a career that demands great self-discipline and self-motivation, and he explains that much of the work will be reimbursed as piecework that requires excellent spelling, grammar, speed, and knowledge of medical formatting. This is an excellent resource as an introduction to the profession. "The prospective or current transcriptionist will benefit from this small book to help decide on a potential career direction. The author has chosen working transcriptionists to contribute real-life issues for discussion from the perspective of both in-house transcriptionists and home-based workers. Advantages and disadvantages of each option are included. "Employment issues such as the job search, how to succeed and advance as a transcriptionist, how to work from home and on the Internet, and occupational hazards of the job are all covered. The author focuses on the transcriptionist's career rather than practical applications. On-the-job profile features are contributions from working transcriptionists to give first-hand experience in how to make it work. "This nice, brief book will help the novice medical transcriptionist or prospective student decide on a career direction. It could be used as a companion book for externship for those deciding whether to work from home or apply for an office position.
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Reviewer: Julie Hosley, RN, CMA(Carteret Community College)Description: In this small introductory handbook, a guide for the potential transcriptionist, employment aspects are covered rather than the mechanics of transcripting.
Purpose: The author introduces prospective students or on-the-job transcriptionists to the potential working environment in either an in-house or home-based situation. He seeks to prevent unrealistic expectations of a career that demands great self-discipline and self-motivation, and he explains that much of the work will be reimbursed as piecework that requires excellent spelling, grammar, speed, and knowledge of medical formatting. This is an excellent resource as an introduction to the profession.
Audience: The prospective or current transcriptionist will benefit from this small book to help decide on a potential career direction. The author has chosen working transcriptionists to contribute real-life issues for discussion from the perspective of both in-house transcriptionists and home-based workers. Advantages and disadvantages of each option are included.
Features: Employment issues such as the job search, how to succeed and advance as a transcriptionist, how to work from home and on the Internet, and occupational hazards of the job are all covered. The author focuses on the transcriptionist's career rather than practical applications. On-the-job profile features are contributions from working transcriptionists to give first-hand experience in how to make it work.
Assessment: This nice, brief book will help the novice medical transcriptionist or prospective student decide on a career direction. It could be used as a companion book for externship for those deciding whether to work from home or apply for an office position.
Julie Hosley
In this small introductory handbook, a guide for the potential transcriptionist, employment aspects are covered rather than the mechanics of transcripting. "The author introduces prospective students or on-the-job transcriptionists to the potential working environment in either an in-house or home-based situation. He seeks to prevent unrealistic expectations of a career that demands great self-discipline and self-motivation, and he explains that much of the work will be reimbursed as piecework that requires excellent spelling, grammar, speed, and knowledge of medical formatting. This is an excellent resource as an introduction to the profession. "The prospective or current transcriptionist will benefit from this small book to help decide on a potential career direction. The author has chosen working transcriptionists to contribute real-life issues for discussion from the perspective of both in-house transcriptionists and home-based workers. Advantages and disadvantages of each option are included. "Employment issues such as the job search, how to succeed and advance as a transcriptionist, how to work from home and on the Internet, and occupational hazards of the job are all covered. The author focuses on the transcriptionist's career rather than practical applications. On-the-job profile features are contributions from working transcriptionists to give first-hand experience in how to make it work. "This nice, brief book will help the novice medical transcriptionist or prospective student decide on a career direction. It could be used as a companion book for externship for those deciding whether to work from home or apply for an office position.3 Stars from Doody
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