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Four Characteristics of a Productive Medical Transcriptionist

You can come up with various characteristics when you think of being a productive transcriptionist like excellent spelling skills and grammar skills, amazing typing skills, comfort with technology, good online research skills and ability to work with minimal supervision. But, what does a medical transcriptionist must really have aside from these all?     Commitment in every single thing you do is the basic step in order to do things right. Being optimistic is a good start, enjoying and loving what you are doing will keep u going, and eventually, you will be happy with the result because you work effectively. A positive attitude creates positive results. Being a medical transcriptionist, one must know the nature of this work so you can work efficiently. First, a transcriptionist should have the necessary medical knowledge so you can transcribe the words correctly. This is necessary not only for the accuracy of the report but ultimately for the safety of the patient whose rep...

The View of a Medical Transcription Student

Welcome to The Transcriptionists’ Profiles, a series of interviews with people who are working as transcriptionists. My name is Archie, the author/administrator of Transcriptionist Hub.     In this article, we’ll feature an interview with Jade Sitjar done previously from our old transcription blog. He’s honored, actually and never thought he’d be invited here. Jade was a Medical Transcription student for the time being. He had a 2-week job experience on general transcription though. He had not yet worked as a transcriptionist but had planned to work upon graduation at MTC Academy last October 2011. He preferred to work home-based, but considering that he was an amateur in this career, most of the time, he had to ask some assistance from senior medical transcriptionists. He was mostly interested to medical transcription other than general or legal transcription. He had come to this considering that he has a degree in Biology. He also considered legal transcription as an option....