Q: Just attended a seminar presented by At-home Professions for a medical transcriptionist course.  What can you tell me about them? Total coat for the course is about $3000. Thanks for your input.

A: In general it doesn’t have as good of a reputation in the medical transcription community as some of the other programs.

You can read more here:

This one of the better medical transcription forums and in general they don’t recommend it. You read a discussion here:

http://forum.mtstars.com/medical_transcription/v/3/8821.html

http://www.mtecinc.com and Andrews are usually considered better.

You can read a discussion here:
http://forum.mtstars.com/medical_transcription/v/3/6879.html

MTec has an open forum here:
http://forum.mtecinc.com/default.aspx

Andrews site is here:
http://www.andrewsschool.com/

It’s also not an the AHDI approved school list.
http://www.ahdionline.org/scriptcontent/mtapproved.cfm

AHDI is the main standards-setting organization (it used to be http://www.aamt.org – but they’ve changed over to the new site.

AHDI provides guidance on choosing an MT school here:
http://www.ahdionline.org/scriptcontent/mtschool.cfm

You’ll see “At-Home Professions” listed on the “Educational
Members” list here:
http://www.ahdionline.org/scriptcontent/edumembers.cfm

BUT as they mention there that doesn’t really mean anything
regarding the quality of the program. It just means that they
paid “membership dues” to be a member of AHDI.

I would definitely recommend you join a few forums first and get a sense
of what other people are saying there.

Paul