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#81922 - 09/27/07 11:24 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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Sparrowhawk
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Registered: 09/25/07
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Thank you Tonks that is what I thought too. When I first moved to this area, I did just that, 'wore out the shoe leather.'But now the question is to which school??
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#82115 - 10/01/07 02:30 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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meri
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Registered: 09/08/01
Posts: 8728
Loc: Murrieta, California
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LOL! Are we actually in a VLC thread telling a prospective student to go to Andrews or M-TEC? Oh, I just LOVE that!
Andrews or M-TEC. And as far your statement of "Andrews and M-Tec are expensive, to say the least," you know what is REALLY expensive? Paying ANY amount of money for schooling and then not being taught well enough by said school to get a job ANYwhere!
Good luck, whatever you do decide.
Meri
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#82117 - 10/01/07 07:15 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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14tonks
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LOL! Are we actually in a VLC thread telling a prospective student to go to Andrews or M-TEC? Oh, I just LOVE that!
I think it's one of those be careful what you ask for situations. Yep, any school at all can pay Elsevier to run ads or open a school forum here. However, they can't restrict who can post to their forum or censor what gets posted as long as it does not violate the general terms of use of the board.
If someone happens to pick a particular school's forum to ask a general "What school should I go to?" question, there's no guarantee it's going to get answers that say "This one."
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#82224 - 10/02/07 05:32 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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Sparrowhawk
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Registered: 09/25/07
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Well, of course, all the happy successful VLC grads out there are able to come in here and share their experience, as well...but so far they haven't chosen to do so. In fact, I posted the answer to the last grad's question with no response ever given, not so much as a "thanks." Had there been a response from the VLC grads in this thread, I think the most I would have said would be something along the lines of "check the New MT forum for information on the other schools you're asking about." However, their silence leaves us a gap we try and fill. 
I definitely like the idea of CMT instructors....that is why I am definitely not considering CS. So, now to decided on which one is better for me, Andrews or M-Tech. I did take a look at VLC, but have found I like the other two...just now a matter of time and $ to when to start. Thanks for all your input :-)
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#82226 - 10/02/07 06:11 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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Sparrowhawk
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I actually went to a community college late 80's for my MT training, and I worked 7 years ago for a G.P; a clinic late 90's, and drug/alcohol rehab. was my first position... Okay, so that means you have no acute care experience whatsoever. If you are thinking about working online for one of the nationals, neither your now long past community college course nor your work experience is going to get you hired or even get you a chance to test. If your clinic experience wasn't with a huge multispecialty clinic, you probably aren't even going to get anywhere with a mid-sized company. If you're thinking about just working for a local doc again or working for someone local who just does clinical work for a few docs in the area, it may be enough if you're willing to wear out the shoe leather knocking on doors to find that job. If you want your pick of companies, though, you need to head to one of the good schools and sign up for the whole enchilada. As noted, you should be able to finish the work a bit faster than someone with no MT background at all, but you need to go through all the modules and make sure you've filled in the gaps even on what you think you know.
Again, thanks Tonks...I will do just that
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#82398 - 10/04/07 04:57 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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Sparrowhawk
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Registered: 09/25/07
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All together now, in unison: Andrews or M-TEC.
Why M-Tec or Andrews? Is there a reason you didn't include VLC? :-)
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#82594 - 10/08/07 02:44 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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arudd
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Registered: 12/24/03
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Hello,
I am the only one working on support currently, and we are closed this long weekend for Canada's Thanksgiving holiday today, Monday, Oct 08,2007. We re-open tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 09, 2007), and responses should come shortly after that from all concerned staff.
We can ask our Grads and Students, as well as Interns to come to this board and post their opinions. However, the last time that was done, we got blamed for sending too many Students/Grads at once, or something to that effect, IIRC.
Any of those concerned here, are quite welcome to check our OPEN Students boards located below, for all Grad, Student and potential Student comments.
http://forums.thevlc.com/
Sincerely,
Ken Mack
VLC Support
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#82638 - 10/09/07 07:33 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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Nae
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Registered: 07/16/98
Posts: 6438
Loc: Sanford, Fl, USA
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Hello,
I am the only one working on support currently, and we are closed this long weekend for Canada's Thanksgiving holiday today, Monday, Oct 08,2007. We re-open tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 09, 2007), and responses should come shortly after that from all concerned staff.
We can ask our Grads and Students, as well as Interns to come to this board and post their opinions. However, the last time that was done, we got blamed for sending too many Students/Grads at once, or something to that effect, IIRC.
Ken Mack
VLC Support
Oh I don't think so honey, but bless your heart for coming up with what sounds like a nifty reason why your students don't post here  I think you may be thinking of another forum, one that is a tad less lenient than ours and with a bit less technical support and capability
In any event ... this part of our forum has been open for many years now and we have never, ever, in our whole length of existence had any sorts of size restrictions in regard to how many people can post here at the same time or be on the site at one time for that matter. After all, y'all didn't pay the cost of advertising here to be slapped up on some rinky-dink make-shift site -- you paid because this is one of the widest-read, highest traffic MT boards around, not to mention the first one in existence way back when the internet was just a baby
Looking back through this thread it looks to me like the majority of folks who come here to post in it appear to be either VLC staff or transparently planted "would-be students" ( and yes, I do say that on purpose, my attempt to be generously in your favor because pretty much anyone who has been around the internet long develops sort a sixth sense when it comes to drive-by posters who post once and promptly disappear; imposters masquarading as something they are not) who have posted sporadically at best.
The proof of a good school resides in the number of its graduates MTSOs are willing to hire, plain and simple, and with this school ... well ... there are darn few MTSOs I know who are willing to hire or even spend the time testing this one's grads. I can tell you for sure that the one I work for doesn't, having been burned once too often by ill-prepared, poorly taught folks who simply did not have the working skills, and, who were pretty darned miffed when they found out that just because the "school" said they are qualified does not make it so.
Certainly, you are more than welcome to load this thread with all sorts of 1-time only posters for the next couple of days that your heart desires. We sure won't stop you
Personally, I am willing to bet that most MT-want to be's that wander by are smart enough to figure out what that means just as easily as those of us who have been around for years can ... but that is just my personal opinion
Nae
Edited by Nae (10/09/07 07:37 AM)
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#82647 - 10/09/07 09:48 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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14tonks
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Certainly, you are more than welcome to load this thread with all sorts of 1-time only posters for the next couple of days that your heart desires. We sure won't stop you \:\)
Personally, I am willing to bet that most MT-want to be's that wander by are smart enough to figure out what that means just as easily as those of us who have been around for years can
Funny how M-TEC and Andrews never have to coerce their students and graduates to say good things about them on boards or organize mass postings in order to get their schools favorably discussed, isn't it?
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#82879 - 10/11/07 09:29 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
[Re: 14tonks]
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wannabemt
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Registered: 10/04/07
Posts: 5
Loc: Canada
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This is just my two-cents worth about this topic, I don't believe anyone from VLC has to coerce students to post on this board. VLC has their own Forum for their students and maybe if you took the time to look at it, you would know that most of the students that are with VLC use that board to post and in that forum we have respect for every person that does post.
I do not see the mud slinging that is being done on this board done at the VLC forum, and I do not think that anyone from VLC has to comment or feels that it is necessary to comment on any ignorant posting about VLC. The VLC offers an education for people the same as M-Tec or Andrews, and if the students from those schools feel it necessary to sling mud about other schools, that is their decision, although where I come from, those that feel it necessary to do so, well, they may not feel to secure with their own education.
Those that are slinging the mud, please feel free to check the VLC forums out, and then maybe you will find out, why VLC students do not post regularly on this forum.
Respectfully
Jane
VLC Student
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#82882 - 10/11/07 09:52 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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tropsicleAfter
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Registered: 10/30/06
Posts: 1553
Loc: MS Gulf Coast
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The VLC offers an education for people the same as M-Tec or Andrews...
This is simply not true, as evidenced by graduate hire-rates, graduate compensation rates, and graduate work types. As a VLC student, you probably do not have access to this comparative data, certainly not on a first-hand basis. MTSOs do, and even a cursory survey of them would demonstrate the veracity of this assertation.
BTW, I am not a graduate of any of these schools. Nevertheless, the difference in those graduates is evident.
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#82883 - 10/11/07 10:22 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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wannabemt
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Registered: 10/04/07
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Well, now....have you looked into VLC graduates yourself and the ones that have gained employment and are very happy with their education, and the employers that hire VLC graduates....I will stand by my comments of VLC offering an education the same as
M-Tec or Andrews, because as far as I can see they are putting graduates out their that are doing the medical transcribing as well or better than others. The education one receives, no matter the school they attend becomes a personal matter and a striving for excellence, and whether that education comes from
M-Tec, Andrews, or VLC it really does not matter, as long as the individual receives what they want out of that education, and the graduates of VLC are receiving a quality education within the medical trancribing field, and these same graduates are working.....so my dear this is my outlook on this matter, and whether or not you or anyone else agrees with me ....really does not matter to me..
My comments were originally made to give my opinion on comments on bad mouthing other schools, and as far as I can see....no one from VLC feels it necessary to do so....unlike others from other schools......
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Jane
VLC Student
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#82898 - 10/11/07 05:25 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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haggis
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Registered: 04/29/04
Posts: 2453
Loc: Left Coast, FL
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How do you know you're getting a great education--because the people who took your money tell you so? because other people with an equal lack of a clue are as hopeful as you are that they didn't make a huge mistake? People from Crappy Schools generally believe they're getting a great education and I totally get that it's hard to accept you spent your tuition money unwisely, but really. . . to insist that you're getting an education on a par with the best in the field is just ludicrous. You can wish all you want and work as hard as you want, but the fact remains that you can't learn what they don't teach you, make up for what they teach you wrong, or hope to ever compete with people who did invest in a course that prepared them well.
Yes, there are obviously some VLC grads who find jobs and probably some who are so well suited for the job that they overcome their background, fill in some gaps, and do well--but I guarantee they're starting small and working their way up, not jumping headlong into the deep end of the pool and making top dollar from the start. I can tell you from experience that a lousy education (for those who--a year or two out in the field--wake up to that sad realization) comes with an insecurity you'll wear like an albatross for the rest of your MT career. The confidence that comes with a 5-star diploma is priceless, IMHO.
FYI, the people hammering away at the fact that M-TEC and Andrews are the ONLY choices for the best shot at succeeding in this field have nothing to do with either school. You are attempting to pooh-pooh employers and QA people who DO know what they're talking about.
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#82929 - 10/11/07 10:14 PM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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tropsicleAfter
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But haggis, she SAID she doesn't care whether anyone else agrees with her, so your words of wisdom are probably falling on deaf ears. She is convinced she knows what she cannot know, and no manner of logic will convince her otherwise. She will graduate from her beloved VLC and hopefully get that job transcribing at a local hospital, until, of course, that hospital outsources her job and she hits the larger market, finding that her 'experience' combined with her 'education' will qualify her for a job at a MT factory making 2/3 of what she was making, then blame it all on 'dem damn foreigners taking our jobs.'
But, these things do not matter to her.
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#82941 - 10/12/07 04:14 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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14tonks
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So, we'll all just have to wait until she gets out "their" while the Andrews and M-TEC grads head out there where the better money is. Maybe she'll she the light at that point, maybe she won't.
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#82954 - 10/12/07 11:16 AM
Re: Any other VLC Grads or Students out there?
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wannabemt
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Registered: 10/04/07
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For any of you to assume I am a mediocre person, you would have to know me first, and as far as I know, I do not know any of you.
As far as making more money, because of my education and where I choose to take my course, well, I have an education and medical transcriptionist is one course I chose to take, and it had nothing to do with making money or not making money. It had to with lifelong learning....now, I understand if you do not understand that concept as you all entered the field to make a living. You see, that is where I am different, I already make a living. My husband and I live quite comfortably, so before you past judgement on me because of my decisions and start acting in your childlike ways of assuming things about other people, you should really ask more questions about the person you choose to speak badly about. I am not the mediocre person on this board, as far as I can see the last two postings from you two, show just how mediocre some people are.
I choose my education for reasons maybe none of you understand, so if you would like to know anymore about me, well, why don't you just ask. I don't make my decision's about a course because of money or the making of it, I choose my courses for the prospect of learning, and it has nothing to do with working or not working......or making money or not making it.
If you have anything else besides the verbal diarrhea that you have been posting in the last day or so, that would be worth reading.....please do let me know....You see I do not get upset about mediocre individuals that feel it necessary to put other's down because of the assumption that they have made bad decisions, especially when they do not know the person in the first place...But, Boy you can get to know people because of how they interact with other's and the last two posting certainly tell me how you two think.....mediocrity, well you two certainly breath it.....
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