1. Are you interested in a health career without significant patient care responsibilities?

As a medical transcriptionist, you will have little direct patient contact. Medical transcriptionists work in settings that are usually far removed from the examining rooms, clinics, and hospital floors where health care is provided. Patients rarely have the opportunity to hear about those who transcribe their medical reports, and medical transcriptionists rarely meet the subjects of their work.

2. Would you like a job with flexible hours and the possibility of part-time employment?

Because their services are in demand, medical transcriptionists are often able to arrange convenient and flexible work schedules. Medical transcription is a portable skill that allows for professional and geographic mobility.

3. Are you interested in a curriculum with limited mathematics and no chemistry or physics requirements?

Courses in the medical transcription certificate program include human biology, medical terminology, medical transcription, English, medical legal aspects, pharmacology, and medical ethics.

4. Are you interested in a program that can often be completed in less than a year?

In most cases, the medical transcription certificate program is completed within one year.

5. Are you interested in a health career that involves computers?

Medical transcription can be a lifelong, satisfying career providing the constant challenge of an expanding and advancing technology. The changes occurring in the healthcare industry promise to provide even more challenges to the forward-looking medical transcriptionist.

6. Would you like to study the origins and use of medical terminology?

Medical transcriptionists are word specialists. Knowing and understanding the language of medicine which includes root words, suffixes and prefixes, is a valuable skill developed by the medical transcriptionist. Medical transcriptionists learn new terms every day and are never bored!