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What is Medical Transcription ?
"Medical Transcription is the job of
helping a doctor maintain the
details of his interaction
with a
patient by converting it into a
medical record by transcribing the
doctor's dictations."
Medical
transcription job is a
type of BPO job and it comes under ITES
in India. India is one of
the favorite countries for Outsourcing
US Medical Transcription Jobs as
well as British Medical Transcription
Jobs and even Australian Medical
Transcription Jobs. There are
several cities in India where
Medical Transcription in India is
done. Some of those cities
include Delhi, Kolkata (West Bengal),
Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Mumbai,
Pune, Nagpur (Maharastra), Bangalore,
Mangalore (Karnataka), Hyderabad
(Andhra Pradesh), Cochin and
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala).
Visit Medical
Transcription
Discussion
Forum to see job openings in
different
places in India.
Bangalore is called the Silicon Valley
of Asia. There are several
Medical Transcription Companies in
Bangalore, India. So it is
easy to get a Medical Transcription Job
in Bangalore. Medical
Transcription Jobs in India are in great
demand. With a few
months of Medical Transcription
Training, one can start a career as a
Medical Transcriptionist. A
Medical Transcriptionist is also
called a MT in short.
The hierarchy in Medical Transcription
Industry varies from company to
company. Usually it starts from OJT (on
the job trainee) who is paid
stipend, then Junior MT, Senior MT,
Executive MT, etc.
Sometimes people assume
transcriptionist's job is just
mechanical typing work, but in reality a
Medical Transcriptionist
requires plenty of Medical
knowledge. He will need to refer a
lot
of medical books or electronic
dictionaries like the Stedman's, Quick
look, English Dictionaries, and all
possible medical reference
books. He will need to use his
listening skills. He will
need to use his intelligence in
determining what doctor means as the
doctors will not be available to clarify
the medical terminology he
used. Hence medical
transcriptionists are sometimes called
as
Medical Language Specialists just to
point out that it is not a simple
job that any Tom, Dick, and Harry can
do.
After a junior MT finishes typing it
goes through editing by another
experienced person called as the Editor.
The Editor's job
is to make correction on what his junior
has done. It should not
be forgotten that a medical
transcription work involves simultaneous
use of eyes for reading, ears for
listening, fingers for typing, legs
for foot pedal to control the voice
player software of the computer.
Internet search engines like
Google, Yahoo, and MSN have
really made transcription much easier by
helping the MTs find the right
word by searching through various
medical sites on the internet.
Also, search on a wrong spelling on
these search engines leads to
suggestion of the actual spelling based
on the importance of the actual
word.
After Editing work is finished, it goes
to the Quality
Analyst(QA)/Quality Controller (QC),
who will fill in the blanks or
words which could not be filled by the
Editor. The Quality
Analyst(QA)/Quality Controller (QC) will
be usually be a doctor who
will use his medical knowledge and
skills to fill the blanks.
Finally, a Proofer or Proof Reader goes
through the whole document
checking for its grammatical errors or
sentence restructuring before
finally it reaching the dictating
doctor's table as a perfect
record. All the while it is the
Production Manager who
keep the tab of the job work flow be it
a 24-hour TAT (Turn
around time) or be it a 12-hour TAT or
be it a STAT job. Various
companies cut short the number of levels
to suit their needs and as per
client requirements.
A medical transcriptionist
in US is sometimes paid on
hourly basis even up to $16. In
India, Medical Transcription Job
is done at a price ranging from as low
as 1 cent to 12 cents per line
(65 characters). The low price
resulted as some new companies
tried to undercut the older ones in the
pricing.
Now get Home
Transcription work from multiple companies
from rates as
high as Rs.2/- per line. The boom
in Home
Transcription in India has
helped many Indian Medical
Transcription Companies to lower
the cost of transcription since
they save on overheads. However,
there is some worry as to the
level of HIPAA compliance and security
that can be got on a home
transcription platform.
Regardless of that more and more MTs
are opting to work from home, especially
housewives and retired people
doing part time jobs.
Indian Transcriptionists earn as low as
Rs. 1000/- as monthly salary to
as high as Rs. 50000/-. Indian
Medical Transcription
Professionals can earns in Lakhs if they
become successful in getting a
direct Home transcription Job from US
or a direct
Medical Transcription Contract as
each Dollar earned becomes upto
50 times when it gets converted to
Indian Rupees.
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