Re: Bashing all the schools-OT

February 26, 2003

I always try to keep in the back of mind that this is the internet and just

because someone SAYS they are this-and-such doesn't necessarily mean they

really are. I could say I was ANYBODY I wanted to just to slam an institution

or a person. As a past member of AlAnon, I remember something I was told in

those meetings. Actually it was in reference to meetings and such, but they

always said " Take what you like and leave the rest. " I have applied that to

sooo many things in my life. I would have applied it to what that 'wise old

sage of an MT' said.

That's the wonderful thing about the internet. You can be who you want to be

and try to make everyone think that's just who you are while all the time you

are sitting in front of a screen, not having had a shower for 3 days, with

dirty underwear on, picking your nose and not actually have a job at all.

Just because you read it....don't mean it's true!

Take what you like and leave the rest......

Suzanne

February 26, 2003

Opinions are like ... belly buttons ... everyone has one.

All I will say here is that I didn't go to s or M-TEC; I graduated from

Career Step. I'm doing very well, thank you. I have been offered a job by

every company that I have tested with, and I refuse to feel like I came from

" the wrong side of the tracks. "

Keep in mind that just because someone is experienced or just because they are a

service owner, that this doesn't mean they are infallible or that their word is

gospel. Certainly, I *do* listen carefully to those more experienced than I,

but I don't simply accept what I hear without tossing it around in the old brain

and bouncing it off other input. I can't tell you the number of times that

companies have told me that they have they most trouble (quality issues) with

MTs with many years of experience. I am not knocking the " olbies " here. Some

are absolutely great, fabulous, and have so much to offer the newbies. I'm just

saying that some with experience are really, really good and some aren't. Some

have been doing things wrong for years. What I am trying poorly to say is that

we should listen to others, yes, but that we need to ultimately make our own

decisions and form our own opinions based on all of our input from many sources.

One other thing. Discussing MT schools is often like discussing religion or

politics. You have to wear your heavy armor if you want to participate in the

fray. That's way I usually stay out of it. My armor is pretty rusty. *G*

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Rennie

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Bashing all the schools-OT

Everyone, I would like your feedback. I posted some web sites of some good

schools on an aol board and boy am I sorry I did that. I was trying to be

helpful but unless you have been on that board for a long time, you better not

give any opinions or advice. I do not take offense though. I am just going to

let those people to themselves and go my merry way.

Here is an email I got from one of the oldtimers on the board. And to let you

know, I gave the web sites of AAMT, MT Daily and some schools. ROS, Career Step,

s, Meditech, and CAI. I just gave the web sites as a starting point for

people to start doing their own research into schools. I didn't recommend any

one of them.

Let me know.....Does everyone agree with her statements? I feel like everything

I have learned in the past few months is a lie. She says there are only 2 good

programs. I just enrolled in a school that I thought was very good and have

heard nothing but great things about CAI. Even Medquist says CAI has their

people trained well. This lady says she has been an MT for 33 yrs. Thanks for

your opinion.

Tina

Here is her email.

The reason that I posted what I posted is. I have been an MTSO for 33 years. I

test MTs every day. I feel that I, and other long time MTs who deal with

students from these programs have a better understanding of what it takes to

produce a good MT and what programs are doing a better job than others.

You have made statements on here that are contrary to mine and other MTSOs

experience. Newbies (like yourself) may read your post and go to one of these

programs, which is truly a waste of their money.

Do you truly feel that you are in a position to make a recommendation to someone

else when you have never worked one day as an MT and have yet to find out if

your own training is worth the money you paid for it.

I am also an MTSO that must turn people down and tell them that they don't have

the quality of an education to work for me. I also have to help answer

questions from those who didn't get it in school and help others get retrained

in order to be gainfully employed.

I am not trying to be nasty. I am just pointing out to you that you could be

doing some damage by promoting programs that you know nothing about, well that

is nothing more than what other people with no knowledge posting on other MT

sites. Others are likely to jump you on the board because some of the programs

that you recommended are pure crap and I mean that in the nicest way.

First Meditech, not M-Tec, is by far the worse program in the world. They

believe that you can teach someone to transcribe in 3 months. It just isn't

possible. Their name is very close to M-Tec and they are trading on that.

I know about the programs because I have been on mine for 9 years and have a

large service. I have people from every program apply with me and most cannot

pass my tests. I also mentor people from three of the programs that you listed

because they are not hirable by any of the national companies and I took pity on

them.

The only two really really good programs are M-Tec and s. I will no

longer even consider taking students from the other courses because they do not

have the intensive training that it needs to be a good MT. Since I can get

students from these programs, why would I put time into someone who it takes me

more time to untrain them and then train them right.

If you truly believe that the programs that you listed are good, then you are

not going to any of the recognized good MT sites. Because if you did, you would

find out that they are inadequate programs.

Stick around because I do think that you have possibilities because you are not

afraid of challenges and at least ask questions without taking offense, which

are very good characteristics in a good MT.

February 26, 2003