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Medical Transcriptionist Schools in North Dakota - ND
By Susan Maphis, allied health world contributing writer
Published: January 15th, 2010
Medical Transcription Schools in North Dakota
Finding an approved, accredited North Dakota medical transcription school is the number one consideration. Most employers will not accept transcriptionists who have not completed accredited, approved programs.
Training programs for medical transcriptionists take from 6 months to 2 years, depending upon the program. Usually, courses include real medical dictation and transcription, with students transcribing an average of 3400 minutes of doctor-dictated medical reports. Such reports will focus on general medicine and specialties. If you are interested in working as a medical transcriptionist for a particular specialty, you can usually ask for training in that particular area as well.
You will graduate with a degree, diploma, or certificate, but you will not yet be registered or certified. To get the best jobs, take both the RMT and the CMT exams. You can apply for both exams online at www.ahdionline.org/portals/0/downloads/RMTandCMTExamApp.doc, where a $10 fee will be collected when you apply. When you take the RMT exam, you will need to pay $200 at the Prometric Testing Center the day of the exam. Likewise, on the day of your CMT exam, you should expect to pay $275 as an exam fee at the test center.
After you obtain both credentials, you will need to renew them every three years to maintain them. Both RMT and CMT status require continuing education courses to be fulfilled every three years also.
Through campus based and online programs, aspiring Medical Transcriptionists in Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks and Minot, North Dakota may be able to prepare themselves for the possibility of employment in some of the largest hospitals and healthcare facilities in the state including the St. Alexius Medical Center, Jamestown Hospital, Dakota Clinic and Medcenter One Jamestown.