Networking for New Medical Transcriptionists

Someone mentioned networking at the last TRS-student AHDI meeting, so I thought I’d start with that. Networking is a great thing for starting out and progressing through your career. There are several benefits and almost no detriments. Help and information are freely available from experienced MTs who have started these web groups, information on those difficult terms on your assignments, new job, or internship to information on where to look for jobs. Have a difficult term or phrase you can’t figure out? The people on the newsgroups are helpful. Can’t figure out something with Word? They are there and usually reply right away.

They are free to join and you can set your subscription to digest for one big email, or simply just access the information via the web site if you don’t want volumes of emails.  If you control+click on the links, it will take you right to the group’s main page so you can investigate. By the way, RatRaceRebellion is my favorite to look for legitimate at-home jobs.

Of course, there are the big networking groups like Facebook, Twitter, probably MySpace, and many others that have MT or medical-related groups within them. You can easily find them with their search bar; use medical transcription, maybe MT.  You could also network by putting pertinent information on your personal website and sending it to search engines if you have the time. This gets a little more complicated of you want to put keywords and tags on your pages and promote your site.  For just plain, good information, though, you can’t beat a few well-chosen web groups. You can learn new terms, new websites, get job leads, and meet new MTs. Many groups have strict antispam policies, so you won’t need to worry about getting new spam either.