| As medical transcription is one of the few legitimate | | | | But the scam gets worse. There's a promise that you |
| work at home jobs out there, it always frustrates me | | | | will be paid once your work meets certain criteria. But |
| when I hear that someone has been scammed trying | | | | that never happens. I mean never, ever happens. No |
| to get into this field. There's nothing like working hard to | | | | matter how hard you try you will just never be good |
| find something legitimate and still losing out. | | | | enough. |
| And so, it's a big help to know what the medical | | | | And just to make it all really miserable, whatever |
| transcriptions training scams look like. | | | | knowledge you do somehow manage to glean from |
| Yes, I would focus more on the training scams. If you | | | | your poor quality "on the job training" will not be good |
| aren't trained... well trained in medical transcription you | | | | enough to get you a job with a legitimate company. |
| aren't likely to find a job in this field in any case. A good | | | | That's one classic scam transcriptionists-to-be should |
| training program may also help you to find a job, which | | | | be aware of. |
| makes avoiding employment scams easier. | | | | The other one is that many schools really just do an |
| The classic scam is free on the job training to be a | | | | incredibly poor job of training you, such that no |
| medical transcriptionist. Sounds great, right? | | | | employer will ever hire you. This is why it is important |
| Too bad medical transcription is more than just typing | | | | to investigate the school you choose. Any school can |
| what you hear. It may sound as though it should be | | | | sound good in their brochure, but if their graduates only |
| that simple but it really isn't. On the job training is not | | | | rarely find work, what good are they? |
| the best way to go. | | | | Most of these schools will give you some of what you |
| Oh, and you can't forget that the scam includes | | | | would need, and so are not precisely scams, but so |
| requiring that you buy overpriced software and | | | | long as their educational quality is too poor for you to |
| equipment from them. The equipment needed for | | | | find work after, they may as well be. The only good |
| medical transcription is pretty affordable these days, | | | | medical transcription education is the one that allows |
| as much of it is done over the Internet and most | | | | you to find consistent work. Without that you have |
| people looking into it already own a computer. | | | | wasted your money. |