Medical Transcription: Career Choice
Why choose to be a Medical Transcriptionist?
The Job of the Future
The demand for medical transcriptionists is expected to increase in the future, reflecting the rapid growth in the health care industry due to a population that is increasing in number as well as climbing in age.
The Career
The medical transcriptionist's job is to take recordings made by physicians and other health care professionals using a transcribing machine, creating reports on paper or as electronic files. It is also the medical transcriptionist's responsibility to produce a product that is grammatically correct and ensure that all medical terms are accurate.
Job Opportunities
Medical transcriptionists use their talents in a variety of healthcare settings, including doctors' offices, public and private hospitals, teaching hospitals, medical transcription businesses, clinics, laboratories, radiology and pathology departments, insurance companies, medical libraries, government medical facilities, rehabilitation centers, legal offices, research centers, veterinary medical facilities, and associations representing the healthcare industry.
Medical transcriptionists work with physicians and surgeons in multiple specialties. They work with pharmacists, therapists, technicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers, psychologists, and other medical personnel. All of these healthcare providers rely on information that is received, documented, and dispersed by the medical transcriptionist.
Some transcriptionists choose to work at home as employees of transcription businesses or hospitals. Others provide services as independent contractors.
Qualified medical transcriptionists who wish to expand their professional responsibilities
may become quality assurance specialists, supervisors, managers, department heads,
or owners of medical transcription businesses.
Experienced medical transcriptionists may become teachers working in schools and colleges to educate future medical transcriptionists.
What You Can Earn
According to a HayGroup study for the American Association of Medical transcription, medical transcriptionists can earn up to $38,500 annually. The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics lists the middle 50 percent of medical transcriptonists earning up to $33,950. High production employees have the potential of earning more in this field.
(U.S. Dept. of Labor Statistics, 2006-07 Occupational Outlook Handbook)
The Job of the Future
The demand for medical transcriptionists is expected to increase in the future, reflecting the rapid growth in the health care industry due to a population that is increasing in number as well as climbing in age.
The Career
The medical transcriptionist's job is to take recordings made by physicians and other health care professionals using a transcribing machine, creating reports on paper or as electronic files. It is also the medical transcriptionist's responsibility to produce a product that is grammatically correct and ensure that all medical terms are accurate.
Job Opportunities
Medical transcriptionists use their talents in a variety of healthcare settings, including doctors' offices, public and private hospitals, teaching hospitals, medical transcription businesses, clinics, laboratories, radiology and pathology departments, insurance companies, medical libraries, government medical facilities, rehabilitation centers, legal offices, research centers, veterinary medical facilities, and associations representing the healthcare industry.
Medical transcriptionists work with physicians and surgeons in multiple specialties. They work with pharmacists, therapists, technicians, nurses, dieticians, social workers, psychologists, and other medical personnel. All of these healthcare providers rely on information that is received, documented, and dispersed by the medical transcriptionist.
Some transcriptionists choose to work at home as employees of transcription businesses or hospitals. Others provide services as independent contractors.
Qualified medical transcriptionists who wish to expand their professional responsibilities
may become quality assurance specialists, supervisors, managers, department heads,
or owners of medical transcription businesses.
Experienced medical transcriptionists may become teachers working in schools and colleges to educate future medical transcriptionists.
What You Can Earn
According to a HayGroup study for the American Association of Medical transcription, medical transcriptionists can earn up to $38,500 annually. The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics lists the middle 50 percent of medical transcriptonists earning up to $33,950. High production employees have the potential of earning more in this field.
(U.S. Dept. of Labor Statistics, 2006-07 Occupational Outlook Handbook)
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