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#102521 - 07/02/08 03:22 PM
M-Tec Question
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AnneMD001
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Hi! I just enrolled in Career Step and I'm having second thoughts. It isn't too late to get a refund...and I'm wondering about M-Tec. I signed up for CS because I noticed that Spheris, Amphion, Medquist, etc. were partnered with them and recommend them for training. But then I see that everyone here says M-Tec or Andrews would be better options. I just need to be sure I get a good education AND will be hired when I graduate. I called Medquist and they said they do recommend CS and wouldn't comment on other schools. Will they hire M-Tec grads with no experience? Are M-Tec grads really getting jobs right out of school? I am also having second thoughts because I am afraid I won't get all I need without an actual instructor at CS. I'd love to hear from any CS students/grads, too... have you been happy with CS?
Thanks!
Anne
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#102523 - 07/02/08 03:47 PM
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FarAwayDeb
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I sent you a PM.
(Anybody surprised? LOL)
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#102524 - 07/02/08 04:00 PM
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Ebit
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If you switch, you won't regret it.
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#102528 - 07/02/08 04:15 PM
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meri
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Loc: Murrieta, California
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I remember years ago when I first tried to get back into the business I took a test at an on-site MedQuist. The supervisor was really nice, said I was almost there but needed to refresh my skills by taking another course. She told me about CareerStep being partnered with MedQuist, but in the same breath said she wouldn't recommend them. I thought that was kind of funny.
I have just recently become friends with a new graduate from CareerStep and helped her get on where I work. The deal was I would kind of coach her through the new job because normally an MT needs 5 years experience where I work, which obviously she didn't have.
Now I realize what people have been saying about CareerStep all this time. I never doubted them, but I had no firsthand knowledge myself. I am in shock over the lack of education my friend received, and she is very, very sharp so it's not that she didn't do well in the course. She just was unable to learn what she wasn't taught! She's doing great now, by the way, which I never doubted for a second she would. But, had she taken the course at M-Tec or Andrews, she would have been ready from the get-go to work alone without help from a mentor such as myself.
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#102529 - 07/02/08 04:16 PM
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AnneMD001
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Hi FarAwayDeb...
I don't see a PM from you... just a "Welcome" PM from Annie?
Anne
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#102532 - 07/02/08 04:38 PM
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amfitz
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I am a Career Step grad, and I am not sure I would recommend them to someone else. I was okay without having an instructor for the first part of the course for the most part, but it's insanity to not provide an instructor through the transcription portion of the course. Students at Career Step end up guessing a lot. I was one who kept sending reports in to be graded by a human being instead of a computer. Most people do not do this, and then they have no idea why they failed the final because all along they were guessing that the differences they saw in their report versus the one the computer spit out were just style differences. There are people who are studying to take the final, and they still have spelling and grammar errors galore in every one of their posts on the forum.
If you can, go to M-Tec or Andrews. I wish I had gone to Andrews myself. I think I would have felt (and been) more prepared for the reality of working.
In the end Career Step worked out okay for me, but if I had to do it all over again, I would not choose Career Step.
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#102537 - 07/02/08 05:08 PM
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14tonks
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I am in shock over the lack of education my friend received, and she is very, very sharp so it's not that she didn't do well in the course. She just was unable to learn what she wasn't taught!
That's the problem in a nutshell. It doesn't matter how bright you are, you won't know what you don't know until after you learn it, and it's very hard to learn what you don't know on your own with no one to help you who does know. After all, if it weren't, there'd be no point in any kind of school, would there? You'd do just as well teaching yourself all the stuff you don't know yet as paying someone else who already understands the subject to teach you. Paying to be taught usually pays off in acquiring a more thorough knowledge base much more quickly than you can on your own. What makes no sense to me is paying someone for the privilege of having to teach yourself anyway.
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#102574 - 07/02/08 07:15 PM
Re: M-Tec Question
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AnneMD001
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Registered: 07/02/08
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Okay everyone! Thanks so much for the replies. You definitely helped me make my decision. After talking with someone at M-Tec and then reading your replies and other posts on this board, I canceled Career Step and signed up with M-Tec! Glad I figured things out before it was too late.
Woo Hoo!!! Can't wait to get my box!
Thanks again!
Anne
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#102603 - 07/02/08 09:32 PM
Re: M-Tec Question
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FarAwayDeb
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Posts: 2772
Loc: just south of Rochester, NY
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Hi FarAwayDeb...
I don't see a PM from you... just a "Welcome" PM from Annie?
Anne
You're right, I screwed up. I just sent it properly this time, just so you won't always wonder what it said. 
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#102607 - 07/02/08 09:45 PM
Re: M-Tec Question
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moaab
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Loc: Chicagoland
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Best wishes, Anne. It won't be long before you know firsthand that you made the right decision!
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