Coupled with the high level of job security and minimum skill-set, medical transcribers will usually receive a good premium for their services. Medical transcription is a portable skill that allows for professional and geographic mobility. Medical transcriptionists have more control over their careers than most occupations. One can even choose where and when to work within reasonable limits. There are lots of options available. One may choose to work from home or as an employee of a medical transcription company or hospital. Other options include working in a doctor's office, insurance company, attorney's office. It’s a field where experience really counts and so age restrictions are usually not found. Medical transcription can be a satisfying lifelong career providing a constant challenge of an expanding and advancing technology.

With job security concerns being negligible, and the stable and constant high rewards, it is really one of the most stable and always growth-oriented industry being necessarily a part of general health care services. A current estimate is that there are a total of over 67 billion lines of transcription done annually in US. While most transcription related to patients seen in the United States continues to be done within its boundaries, much of it is done across state lines and an increasing amount is being done offshore (e.g., in India and Philippines).

Skills required to become a successful Medical Transcription :

Medical transcriptionists (MTs) are not just data entry operators or simple typists working in the healthcare industry. They need to have additional skills required for creating proficient and accurate medical records. Besides having these skills, they need to constantly improvise and done their skill-set. MTs are expected to be proficient in English language use and grammar, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, disease processes, medical record keeping, and of course typing and computer skills. These skill-sets can be summarized below:

Keyboard Kinetics: Typing speed is important in the productivity of a transcriptionist. Techniques for building speed and efficiency on the keyboard is an invaluable tool for improving typing speed and thereby productivity. Usually, industry requirement is 60 to 80 wpm.

Language and grammar style: The ability to correctly structure and punctuate proper English sentences is vital in producing quality medical transcription reports. Hence, transcriptionists need to have a thorough idea on when and how to use commas, semicolons, hyphenation, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, and more.

Medical Terminology: Understanding the language of medicine is essentially the most important and vital aspect of this career. Hence, a constant improvisation on adding medical vocabulary is a must for a successful MT.

Human Anatomy, Physiology & Disease Processes: Last but not the least, a general understanding of the human body and how it works is essential to medical transcription . Though not a thorough but a basic idea of all major body systems like musculoskeletal system, cardiovascular system, endocrine system, reproductive system, digestive system, respiratory system, the brain and central nervous system, and the sense organs including their functions, organs, common diseases is required. These enable MTs to formulate an understanding of the terms they will hear based on logic.