Employment For Experienced MTs

• All Full-Time transcriptionists enjoy employee status and benefits including paid time off, paid holidays and sick leave, and health insurance.
• All employees work from their homes and set their own schedules.
• Technical support is available during normal business hours via toll free numbers, and an emergency number is provided for after-hours support.
• Requirements: Minimum of two years' experience as a medical transcriptionist and an approved medical terminology course.

Benchmarks of quality for experienced transcriptionists:

• Since very few reports are done the first week, nothing is indicated for that week.
  
• By the end of third week, there should be no spelling or grammar errors indicated by spell check or grammar check on the computer.
  
• By the end of the fifth week there should be no repeat errors.
  
• By the end of the seventh week there should be few or no grammar, common sense or PCTS Preference errors, and 20% of reports should show "no changes."
  
• Important: Blanks are NOT considered errors and are preferred to guessing
  

Training Program for Non-Experienced MTs

Physicians' Choice Transcription Service has a program in place for those who have an interest in becoming full time medical language specialists (transcriptionists).

Requirements:

• Completion of a formal medical terminology course. This can be from a local college and does not need to include actual transcription of tapes.
  
• Excellent computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Word and a minimum typing speed of 60 wpm. Knowledge of file management is also required (working in Explorer, etc.)
  
• Some kind of previous job experience in which computers were used in an office setting, utilizing word processing.
  
• Successful completion of tests in English/grammar and medical terminology, as well as the transcription of two or three selected reports.
  
• Broadband internet access.
  
• Time during the regular work day to work 5-6 hours, Monday through Friday to devote to training.
  
• XP operating system (no Vista); Microsoft Word 2003 or lower.
  

The Training Process:

The training process is similar to the mentoring which happens with any new employee. Trainees transcribe a group of reports and a trainer listens to the dictation and reviews the documents. Feedback is provided in the form of an email.

Depending upon the time available by the Trainee, more than one group of reports per day may be transcribed. Our goal is to provide as much experience as possible in the shortest time possible, thus our daily time requirement.

Trainees are "released" from review by dictator. Once the trainer is confident that a specific dictator's reports can be transcribed error-free by the trainee, work from that dictator becomes unlimited. This process continues with each dictator and/or client in the same way, gradually adding new work.

Training status:

Once the formal training period is completed, the Trainee's status is converted to an Employee of PCTSI. Full time Employees are eligible for benefits (paid time off, paid holidays, sick leave and health insurance).

Length of training period:

The length of the training period is completely dependent upon the progress of the Trainee. If reasonable progress is made each week (see Benchmarks above), the training period will continue until trainer is confident that the trainee can submit error-free reports directly to a specific client. In the past, this period has averaged three months.

Training cost

The weekly training cost is related to two things: Cost of the trainers' time and the use of the software license, the cost of which is $1,200. Therefore, the weekly cost changes during the training time and fees will be charged every other week as a payroll deduction.

First Month: $100/Week
Second Month: $75/Week
Third Month: $50/Week