THE FAST TRACK MT

 Everything You Need to Know
to Become a Highly Productive
Medical Transcriptionist

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• How to Use this E-Book

• What Do You Need to Know?

• Advantages and Disadvantages to Working at Home

• How Do You Know if You Will Make a Good Medical 
  Transcriptionist?

• What Kind of Training Do You Need?

• How Do You Get Trained?

  • Local Schools

  • On-the-Job Training

  • Training Yourself

  • Correspondence and Online School

• Can You Find a Job Once You’re Trained? How?

• IC Versus Statutory Employee Versus Employee

• Different Ways of Getting Paid

  • Per the Hour

  • Per the Page Rate

  • Per the Minute

  • Per the Line

• How Much Money Can you Make?

• Resources for MTs

  • Magazines

  • Internet

  • Recommended Books

  • E-mail Lists

• Productivity

  • Web Sites 

  • Word Expanders

  • Electronic Word List Organizers

  • Make Your Word Processor Your Work Horse

  • Electronics Word Books and Drug Books

  • Miscellaneous Items

  • Additional Resources

• What Must You Buy?

• What is a CMT?

• What is HIPAA?

• Final Thoughts