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About Home-Based Medical Transcriptionist Jobs

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By Susan Steele
eHow Contributing Writer
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Home-based jobs are becoming more popular every day. Medical transcription is one example of work that can be done from home. Many doctors' offices and hospitals hire medical transcriptionists to work from their own home offices.

    Duties

  1. Medical transcriptionists listen to recorded medical reports and transcribe them into written text, which is then sent back to the physician in the form of documents.
  2. Training and Experience

  3. Most legitimate home-based medical transcription jobs require that employees have completed a medical transcription program and have experience doing this type of work.
  4. Necessary Equipment

  5. Working as a medical transcriptionist requires that you have a computer with a high-speed internet connection, special transcription software and a USB foot pedal to control the speed of the recordings.
  6. Significance

  7. Doctors rely on medical transcriptionists to transcribe all recordings properly to ensure that patients' medical records are correct.
  8. Misconceptions

  9. Although working from home sometimes isn't highly regarded as a real job, being a home-based medical transcriptionist is important in helping doctors to correctly diagnose their patients.
  10. Pay Rates

  11. Average take-home pay for a medical transcriptionist ranges starts at about $14,000 a year, and ranges up to $40,000 or more for more experienced workers.
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