The Medical Transcription Career Handbook

By Keith A. Drake and Drake K. A

Helping users land that first job and build a successful career in medical transcription, this essential handbook offers practical guidelines and tips in job search strategies, career development, opportunities for advancement, and much more. Presents effective job hunting skills, with in-depth chapters on the job search process and preparing your resume. Shares inside tricks-of-the-trade, and provides a full chapter on home-based transcription that includes discussions on developing independent business skills (such as sales), marketing, tax and records. Explores internet skills for medical transcriptionists, job hunting, and medical researching on the web. Enriches material with numerous case studies and includes many web-site addresses for further exploration.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130115401
• ISBN13: 9780130115409
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.5" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Great step to start your own company

As founder and developer of a unique medical transcription company, EchoScribe Inc, this book is a great way to explore career options in MT. In fact, many of our clients, people who started their own company though the careers section of our company website, recomend this book because of its completeness. Our careers section www.echoscribe.com/careers.asp

Excellent book for med trans students (coming from one!)

I am so glad that I bought this book! It is very helpful and insightful. I am currently in a two-year Associate of Science in Medical Transcription degree program, and while I am very happy with my training at the college, I felt clueless as to: how to start looking for a job, what I should look for in a position, what to expect in salary for my first job, how to do my resume with no on-the-job medical transcription experience, etc. This book covers it all! It has good information on all of the above mentioned topics AND stories from working medical transcriptionists and how they got their first jobs. It also has websites relevant to medical transcription and many more tips including a chapter on "tricks of the trade." This is an excellent book if you need ideas on how to start after you graduate. I highly recommend it for any medical transcription student!