The Big Three Online Medical Transcription Schools

The medical transcription field has changed drastically over the past few years with the advent of new technology making it possible to receive audio files and send completed transcription work over the internet. There are many factors that you should consider when choosing a school including how current the curriculum and equipment used to train students is. A few years ago I started to attend classes at a local community college, but I very quickly realized that the curriculum was sorely lacking in student/teacher interaction and quality training. Before attending school I knew that this field had largely come into the digital age, and the days of driving to a local hospital or clinic to pick up audio tapes to transcribe from were becoming a thing of the past. The school that I was attending was training students on very outdated transcription machines and was not going to train us to work with digital audio files. It was only a 17 credit program and the class size was just too large for the teacher to answer all of our questions and work with us as individuals. I decided the lower cost of this program was not worth the risk of time wasted on an education that was not likely to help me obtain the work-at-home position I wanted. From the research I have done mainly online through medical transcription discussion boards and transcription companies the term "big three" kept coming up regarding online medical transcription schools. These are the big three schools which companies that hire you to work at home are impressed to see on a resume and include: M-TEC, Andrews, and Career Step. These programs are administered online or through correspondence, and fees range from approximately $1300 to $3500.