I want a great medical job for the future and am undecided what to do but would like it to pay good but yet not be on call all the time but then again I don’t want a job where I will be paying a lot for insurance because I don’t want to be sued. Please help me out!!!

Do not become a doctor. First, if doing it for the money you will be miserable. Second, there is no way around liability insurance. There are no specialties exempt from being sued (although obviously the types and severity of suits vary by specialty).

If pay and liability insurance are your main issues, then go into pharmacy or nursing. They pay quite well and pay a whole heck of a lot less in insurance. Although even here, if your main goal is loads of money, you will grow to hate your job.

I’ve made my decision and I want to be in a medical field as my career but I don’t know what. I’d like a career about health in the body system. There are many medical jobs that studies about body systems such as a doctor or nurse, but what else are there?

You have nursing assistant, medical assistant, medical office admin, health unit coordinator, physical/occupational therapist, dietitian, medical transcriptionist, and so much more.

My fiance has developed some health problems lately, and getting out of the house is getting hard on her. She doesn’t have health insurance and needs to come up with a job paying for it. We’ve considered work from home, but a lot of work from home opportunities are scams. I’ve heard that Medical Transcription is legit, but we don’t know where to start, or even how to tell the scams from the real thing. How does a person start from scratch to get into medical transcription?

You can look for jobs in medical transcription in a variety of ways. First, I have seen some listed on monster.com and careerbuilder.com, indeed.com, etc. You can also look in your local help wanted ads. Hospitals are another place to look. You can also look at medical transcription companies. MedQuist, Spheris, Amphion, etc.

Most medical transcriptionists do work from home. A little over 80% of them do. The department of labor has stats on the career: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos271.htm

As far as how someone starts to get into medical transcription from scratch, first you need training. Employers require that you have training before they will hire you. They even test your skills before they even look at your application. One would think that listening to a tape and typing what you hear would be easy but it is not. That is why training is required. Training can be done online or through a brick and mortar school. It can take from about 6 months to a year depending on how much time is devoted to working on it. Cost, that depends on who you go with. Cost can range from about $1500 to $5000. If you and your fiance decide to pursue this route, I provided a link to a school that trains medical transcriptionists online. It is a really good school and is one of the top school for medical transcription.

After you graduate, then you can look for a job via the methods I provided above or the school that I mentioned to you will assist you in your job search after you graduate.

If you have any other questions, you can email me. Good luck!

I have a job interview tomorrow for a medical assistant position. I need some advice on what to wear. It’s a peds office. Should I wear the typical dress slack and a nice blouse or should I wear scrubs?

Many peeps get stuck when they are aiming to decide what to wear at an interview. Personally I’m from the old school, I am of the opinion that formal wear is never incorrect; you can get some tips from the site in the box below, they also have loads of advice on job hunting.

I was interested in learning to know more about working in a medical recruiting job. Its said something about a job recruiting doctors and such. What does it all mean? Can anyone provide more info on this subject?

I worked with a recruiter for a while, it’s basically 100% networking and building relationships with various hiring directors at hospitals and medical companies. You find out what positions they need to fill, then you find the people that fit those positions. Sometimes you get an upfront fee, sometimes you’re commissioned based on the first year’s salary of the employee they’re looking to hire.
Either way, it’s a very, very competitive field. There’s a lot of conversations about the topic at the forum I link to.

Millions of people all across the country are miserable in their jobs. They’re stressed and even burned out. Some are biding their time till retirement, hoping they won’t get laid off before then. And that’s if they’re lucky enough to have a job in the first place. So what would be the logical New Year’s resolution for most of them? Get a new and improved job.

And thanks to Pam Jonsson’s new “Great Job!” system, many of those unemployed and unhappily employed people can now not only find a job, but find a job they will actually enjoy.

What makes “Great Job! The Secret to Finding a Job You Love” different from all those other job-finding books on the market?

Most “normal” books start with making you record what you’ve been doing all along. Of course, what that will get you - and that’s if you’re lucky - is more of the same. Great Job! approaches looking for a job very differently.

Instead of starting with your official credentials, you’re asked to explore what you enjoy. You’re asked to look back over your past jobs and pin down exactly what you liked - and what you disliked - about each of them.

That will give you plenty of material to work with as you design your new, perfect job.

And “Great Job!” doesn’t just stop there. Next, armed with your information about what kind of job would make you happy, it guides you through doing your research as you go about finding your perfect job - online and offline.

Unlike those books that teach you how to submit your resume all over the place, Pam tells you to hold off on giving your resume to anyone. What you’ll get instead is the most thorough guide for how to tap into the hidden job market I’ve ever seen.

What’s included in this system? A comprehensive downloadable book that doubles as a workbook. A series of audio files which are an extensively annotated version of the ebook. And if you get the deluxe version of the program, you’ll also get an entire online course along with it. This course accompanies you as you do your research and follow the steps on the path to your perfect job, providing you with much additional helpful information and support.

In a nutshell, “Great Job!” is a unique system that helps people find jobs that are a perfect fit. And not just based on a few qualities that would fit in a resume, but in a much more comprehensive way. We’re talking perfect fit in terms of corporate culture, management personalities, the kind of job someone is expected to do. It’s a job that fits the person, not the other way round.

As I read it, parts of it reminded me of Barbara Sher’s “Wishcraft” and Richard Bolles’ “What Color Is Your Parachute,” but “Great Job!” goes far beyond those books. It’s a perfect combination of getting you to reach for the stars and of providing the actual step ladders that will help you get there.

Now you may wonder - isn’t that a lot to ask, especially at a time when people are worrying about lay-offs? Not at all. In times of economic pressure, employers are under a great deal of pressure too. Now more than ever, they need good employees. And if you think about it, employees who feel their job is a great fit for them are going to be more productive and dependable than those who just suffer through their miserable jobs day in and day out. This means happy employees are just the kind of employees their bosses need. So it’s a win-win for both sides.

One thing worth noting is that Great Job focuses mainly on professionals. The kinds of questions it asks, and the approaches it suggests for making contact are especially suitable for those in the corporate world and for other professionals, including medical and legal professionals. But not exclusively. In fact, the system is comprehensive enough to accommodate a very broad range of professions and levels of experience. So if you get started and think that this will work mostly for corporate types, don’t give up too soon. You too will find plenty of information that can help you find your own perfect job.

In case you’re curious: Pam shares her own personal story in the book. You’ll find out that once Pam discovered the system, she went on to find several great jobs throughout her career. That’s one of the key benefits of this system. No longer will you feel forced to stay with a job that turned sour just because you’re afraid to leave. Once you’ve mastered Pam’s system, you’ll know you can always find a new perfect job. And with that message, “Great Job!” is probably the most uplifting book I’ve come across in a long time!

Pam has helped numerous people find theirs in her work as a career counselor and expert. And if “Great Job!” is any indication, she’ll soon be helping hundred of thousands of people around the country find their own great jobs too.

Elisabeth Kuhn
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/review-great-job-the-secret-to-finding-a-job-you-love-a-job-finding-system-with-a-difference-1322975.html

In the last article we covered some basic tips about evaluating a possible job. Today we’ll step it up a bit with the essential pearls:

1) The single thing you need to do is find out if anybody has left the group, hospital, or clinic you are interested in, find them, and talk to them. They may have left on good terms, for family reasons, geography, or a vertical move, or they may give you insight into problems that will make your practice and life miserable.

2) Where will you practice? One facility or several? Admitting privileges at one hospital or several? Have members of your group had trouble getting OR time or beds at one hospital vs. another? Is there bad blood between hospitals? Does your group favor one versus the other and why? Will you have any choice or do you have to follow the group’s preferences?

3) Although you need to read it with a great deal of skepticism, ask for a copy of the hospital/clinic/group’s annual report, if they have one. Find out how often the organization has been “in the black” (i.e. profitable) during the last 10 years. Same administration in place? If not, why not?

4) Be cautious about accepting a job because a particular mentor or famous colleague will be there. In academics, people move with notable frequency. Entire departments can change in months; in cities people can move between medical centers rapidly. You don’t want to show up July 1 to find out your mentor and her entire staff moved to the opposite coast, leaving you as acting chief while the hospital staffs your division with locum tenens.

5) Regarding equipment: if it isn’t there when you are there interviewing, then it isn’t there. Repeat that in your mind. If there’s something essential to your practice – 32 slice CT scanner with 3D capabilities, state of the art cysto room, a particular endoscope – and you are assured it will be there by the time you arrive, or it is “in the budget”, or “we’ll work with you” do not accept the job based on that. In hospital budgets those things get cut out faster than a melanoma. If it isn’t there when you are there, it isn’t there.

Joseph Ullman
http://www.articlesbase.com/careers-articles/5-more-tips-looking-for-your-first-job-60154.html

Something that I’m able to help support myself and three other people? Cause I would like to send my parents and sister money once I’m fine career wise. I’m 20, soon to turn 21 and I really want to finish school in 2 years. Tell me what kind of job beside nursing. Thank you!

paramedic, doctor

In India, many of the companies have entered successfully into the field of Medical Transcription.  Major states of India have actively participated to create careers or jobs for the people.  Since the job requires experience, these companies started recruiting many people as trainees and then develop their skills.  So, that they become experts in this field.  Induj Infotech Ltd.of the S. Kumar group based in Mumbai. Maharahstra

 , Infoscript Services Pvt. Ltd. in Bangalore, Webcom Infotech Ltd. in Mumbai, Maharashtra,  Pioneer Transcription Systems in Delhi etc are some of the companies in MT.

 Medical transcription is a very interesting and challenging career or job.  Medical Transcription is also one of the fields which take care of health.  Also it is growing very faster.  Medical Transcriptionists are in demand in foreign countries especially in the America where the full healthcare industry is based on insurance and detailed medical records which are needed for processing insurance claims.  Medical Transcriptionist is a person who assists physicians and specialty surgeons.   

 Medical transcription could be one of the speedy growing IT enabled service in India.  India provides an ideal location for conducting medical transcription with the large population of educated English speaking people and the comparative low cost which encourages companies abroad to outsource their work to the Indian Medical Transcription field.   Medical transcription is defined as a process where Doctors dictates physical report, clinical notes, operative reports, consultation reports, discharge summaries, letters, laboratory reports, X-ray reports etc. and one should accurately and swiftly transcribe it. The dictation includes all the things that take place between the health care provider and the patient.

Usually, the information is dictated by doctors by help of recording into tape or onto digital voice processing systems.  The process of medical transcription is transferring this information using word processing.  Some medical transcription services now employ both ‘on-site’ and home-based medical transcriptionists. Medical transcription services serve client hospitals throughout the nation and abroad. 

For more information visit www.herbalinfosite.com .

mahendra
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/overview-on-medical-transcription-721206.html

I first came across the list below and used it as part of a tip about salary negotiation (”33 things to think about when negotiating your executive compensation”). It can also be looked at in another way. These things are essentially a laundry list of the kinds of job benefits you could see as part of your employment package:

* 401K eligibility requirements

* Bonus structure

* Business travel

* Car/Allowance

* Cell phone, PDA, laptop, etc

* Child care

* Club memberships

* Competitive work clauses

* Dental

* Disability

* Educational reimbursement

* Equity

* Flexibility and influence in hiring decisions

* Funding for research, start-ups or other discretionary projects

* Hours or work schedule

* Insurance coverage

* Job functions

* Life Insurance

* Location of work

* Medical

* Office or contents of office

* Optical

* Parking

* Pensions (if applicable)

* Profit sharing

* Relocation assistance

* Retirement provisions

* Salary

* Support structure (e.g. administrative support)

* Termination clauses and terms

* Title

* Training programs or mentoring

* Vacation time

This list can be a bit overwhelming, so as we get to the three things to take with you, let’s start by knocking out the overwhelm, and:

1. Rank them. Not 1-33, heaven forfend. Break them up into three categories: “Must have,” “Nice to have,” and “Don’t really care.” Don’t be rigid about putting 11 in each category. It’s better to be honest with yourself and really think about what matters to you, so you can make well-informed job search decisions.

2. Consider the bigger picture. Job benefits contribute significantly to both your “total compensation” as well as your work/life balance and job satisfaction. For example, would you take a modest reduction in salary in order to telecommute two days a week, saving gas and giving you extra time with your family? For some professionals, that’s a slam-dunk yes. How about you?

3. Don’t limit yourself. Every year, in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For issue, they review the benefits offered by the listed companies. And the one of the best sections every year is their “Unusual Perks” list. Though the list above covers the most common benefits you could encounter, it’s not the be-all, end-all. And some of those unusual options might be enough to propel a company up to the top of your targeted job search list.

So start here. Start designing the perfect job for yourself. Start looking at positions through this filter, and see how much closer you can get to the right job than you ever have before.

Allen Voivod
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-improvement-articles/design-an-ideal-job-by-identifying-your-musthave-benefits-686483.html