Re: MT Apprenticeship?

I know of another company who has a mentorship program that they started and
they made me an offer when they began it and they did not pay enough to make
it worthwhile. I guess the staff would really have to just LOVE mentoring
and just LOVE working for peanuts to assist these MTs at the expense of
paying their bills and making a decent living.

I guess the only people who could do this are the ones who don't need the
money.

"jayvance" <jayvance.21bmx5@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> mountain Wrote:
>> IMO, apprenticeship is going to help. But apprenticeship should be on
>> selective basis and available to those with the desire to succeed no
>> matter what, even if it means getting paid peanuts for a short period
>> of time.
>
> As an FYI, our MedTransition program is most definitely in operation.
> The biggest problem we have is trying to find enough QA editors to
> handle the overwhelming demand (every report has to be QA'd 100%). We
> have an enormous waiting list of people wanting to get into the
> program, but we can't take them in without adequate QA staff. Quite
> frankly I can understand why we don't have more QA editors applying for
> the job, it doesn't pay enough for the amount of effort that it takes to
> do the job right. I'm so grateful for the folks we have now who do it
> mostly out of a desire to help new MTs and perhaps make a dent in the
> critical shortage of qualified MTs.
>
> One of the things we've learned over the past 8 months that the program
> has been in operation is that we do have to be selective in who we bring
> into the program. The level of training for a lot of new MTs coming out
> of school is even more shocking than I had believed before. And the
> name on the school isn't always the determining factor either, as I've
> discovered. There is no question that raising the bar in terms of
> acceptable educational standards has to be a priority. But as I've
> said in a similar thread over on MT Chat, all the "good schools" put
> together still cannot produce enough work-ready MTs to meet the
> demand---even if EVERY SINGLE GRADUATE of those schools were in fact
> work-ready, which they're not.
>
> It's just too easy to say that all MTs should go to "good" schools, as
> if that alone would solve the MT shortage we have. It won't.
> Hopefully as time goes by and more schools meet the AAMT/AHIMA approval
> standards, the overall quality of MT coming out of school will get
> better. But that's still not going to fulfill the demand. I believe
> good apprenticeship/externship-type programs most definitely have a
> role to play in the overall picture, and judging by the huge demand for
> our program, there are a lot of newly graduated MTs who agree.
>
> Jay
>
>
> --
> jayvance


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