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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.
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 nearly 40 times when it gets converted to Indian
Rupees.
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