Medical Transcription--Career Opportunities

As a medical transcriptionist you possess skills that will open career opportunities in hospitals, ambulatory care, and physician practices, and transcription services. Opportunities abound for a "self starting" individual who is interested in the medical field, has word processing skills, and who takes great pride in efficiency and accuracy.

Job openings for persons seeking work as medical transcriptionists are expected to increase rapidly with the growth in the need for health care and the industries that provide it. Growing numbers of medical transcriptionists will be needed to amend patients' records, edit for grammar, and detect medical discrepancies.

"Advance for Health Information in Professionals" conducted a survey in 2000 to determine salary ranges for medical transcriptionist.  The following information was reported:

• The average salary for transcriptionist managers is $38,724.
• Average medical transcriptionists, (noncertified) average yearly salary is $27,656.
• Annual salary for the certified medical transcriptionist (CMT) credential is $37,257 a year.