The Medical Transcription job is worth, as a career mainly because it is expected that the MT profession is in high demand for many years to come. This is mainly because of the increase in the total number of the aging population and will cause the entire health sector to experience a boom for the next ten years as predicted by the U.S. DOL. As the years go, we can expect that more and more hospitals / doctors / nurses and other health technicians including medical transcriptionists.

What are the basic requirements for a good medical transcription professional? These include,
# High school education
# Good communication skills
# About the average spelling
# If good sorting, testing verification numerical data
# Ability to follow written instruction
# Records maintenance skills
# Good command skills
# Skill in dealing with computer
# Good eye / hand-foot coordination

A good medical transcriptionist has to learn and have a good base for advanced medical terminology. The proper application of grammar and the ability to correct the punctuation is also essential to succeed as a medical transcriptionist.

Among the various tasks of a medical transcriptionist are
# Transcription patient information such as Social Security number
# Patient medical record transcription
# Instructions for maintenance of medical terminology / Procedures
# Medical Transcription Maintenance Logbook
# Collection of dictation tapes
# Distribution of the finished transcripts / reports

Medical Transcription Supervisor are seniors, all in connection to the doctors who take care of all missing and / or end of dictations, and are responsible for the timely delivery of reports. Other tasks include the quality control, maintenance, backups, ordering supplies, reports and reporting problems in the infrastructure / machinery, etc.

The author of this article is Ricci Mathew of Outsource Strategies International (OSI), a U.S. firm offers services in Medical Coding, Medical Billing, Medical Transcription for clients in the U.S..