If you’re an independent self-starter with excellent word processing and spelling skills and a yearning to work from home, a career as a medical transcriptionist may be ideal. After just one or two years of hospital experience, a good medical transcriptionist is often allowed to operate from a home office. You can also work in clinics, hospitals, and for transcription services. Medical transcriptionists utilize dictation machines, digital voice systems and tape recorders while transcribing the dictation into a word processing program. Mastery of medical and surgical terminology is the most essential skill, and you can get support from medical and surgical dictionaries and a medical spell checker.



