Medical Transcription Job Opportunities in US, Canada and India

Nowadays the demand for Medical Transcriptionists has steadily increased throughout the world. They are the persons who would be helpful to transcribe the clinical notes given by the doctors. In this hassle world most of the doctors need the help of these persons to get clinical history of patients in the written form. In countries like US, Canada and India the demand for Medical Transcriptionists is steadily increasing year by year.

Who Can Become A Medical Transcriptionist?

This kind of job doesn't require any special educational qualification. Even anyone who has completed his school studies can try to become a MT (Medical Transcriptionist) All you need to become a MT is a good knowledge and experience in the medical field.
If you have some pre-experiences in this field, you can easily get this job. Generally medical transcriptionists are recruited at hospitals, medical and radiology centers and insurance companies

Good typing skill and sound knowledge in medical field are essential qualifications to become a Medical Transcriptionist. Good concentration power, computer skill, knowledge of medical terms are also very important for being a successful MT. Medical Transcription job involves transcribing clinical notes from a voice file, using ear phones, foot pedal for start-stop control and word processing program. And each medical trancriptionist uses his eyes for reading, ears for hearing the doctor's voice, legs for controlling voice player with the help of foot pedal and fingers for typing.

Training Program for Medical Transcription

A proper training in this field is very important to become a successful MT. We can find many medical transcription training programs in countries like US, Canada and India. A few months of training would be helpful for the freshers to get thorough knowledge and experience in this field. You can check out the following sites to find out many training programs.

www.homeworkers.org
www.uscareerinstitute.com/medicaltranscription.asp
www.hqmt.co.in

Requirements for a Home Based Medical Transcriptionist

If you are a skilled and experienced medical transcriptionist, you can do this job at your home atmosphere itself with the permission of your employer. If you get that opportunity of working at home atmosphere, you may require a Window PC with following configurations, Pentium IV, 256 MB, 3D RAM, 20 GB Hard Disk, 52X CD Ram Drive, Sound Cord with Amplifier or Internet Access, a good quality stereo headphones, 56.6 Kbps External Modem, foot pedal and UPS , software for English and Medical Dictionaries, Spell Checkers, Equipment Glossary and etc.,

Medical Transcription Job Opportunities in India

Every year in there is a good demand for Medical Transcriptionists in India. It is estimated that every more than  10,000  MTs are required in India itself. Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkatta, Mumbai and Cochin are some major cities in India where we can find a lot of MT companies providing job vacancies and training programs. Usually MTs in India will be paid paid according to their accuracy and performance of the work. They will get any where between 60 paise and Rs 1.25/- per line according to their work performance. The following sites are provided with a lot of medical transcription job opportunities and more information about this field.

www.focusmt.com/ (Bangalore)
www.cameoindia.com/ (Chennai)
www.andhrascribe.com/
jobs.homeworkers.org/jobtype/Transcription (Global)

MT Job Opportunities in Canada and US

One can also find a lot of MT job opportunities in countries like US and Canada. Apart from good job opportunities there are many training programs for freshers in this profession. We can go through the following sites to get more information about MT jobs both in Canada and US

jobs.homeworkers.org/jobtype/Transcription (Global)
www.presynct.com/careers.html (US and other countries)
www.transcriptionhouse.com/joinUs.html (US and other countries)
www.truescribe.net/medical_trancription_jobs.html (US)
canscribe.com/ (Canada)
digitscribe.ca/ (Canada)