There's no hype about it, but there's definitely a great demand. Companies have been breathing down our necks for graduates.
Entry level transcriptionists' salaries are competitive with other BPO (CSR/TSR) employees'; everyone starts at the bottom during the familiarization phase as with any field; typically Php 25-28K a month, including incentives. Once they gain some experience, they quickly get promoted to editors or QAs, and they earn substantially HIGHER, typically Php 50-80K. Some of our new graduates actually bypass the MT stage and get hired as editors or QAs!
Other companies pay by the line. A typical MT transcribing 1,500 lines a day can make over Php 40K a month.
Home-based transcriptionists with direct accounts earn by the line or per hour. Other companies pay by hours worked, typically $3/hour or $24/day; that's over Php 100K a month given our current exchange rate; not a small sum in the Philippines.
Yes, you can visit our physical office to check us out. Are we any good? That is not for us to say. Ask our graduates!
Allied-medical means that you are a doctor, nurse, PT, or have at least taken a medical course, like Biology or Chemistry. Even if you only finished a year of schooling, we have a medical competency exam to see if you're qualified. Regular means you have absolutely no medical knowledge.
We have an in-house OJT program which is 160 hours. Optionally, you can take it with another company, then come back to us for your training certificate.
We're not just a school. We have an actual Transcription company. We teach you what we've been doing in the industry for over a DECADE now. We train you not just to become excellent students, but excellent job-ready transcriptionists! If you are good and we have openings, we'll hire you, as we've hired MANY of our own students in the past.
Few things in this world are truly free anymore. Chances are, they'll teach you to do a specific account with very specific tools — their exclusive tools — for their job.
The goal wouldn't be to educate you, but to profit from your production. After a while, you'll probably be cut from the roster. Without sound fundamentals, whatever knowledge you gained will be basically useless, and you'll eventually have to retrain all over again if you wish to remain competitive and move to other companies.
OTSI will teach you the basics so you can get it right the first time around. You get the whole package. We'll teach you everything you need to know from the ground up. We'll teach you fundamentals that you can use in ANY account, ANY company, ANYWHERE in the world! You'll even have the basic building-blocks of being a Legal/General Transcriptionist or a Med Scriber.A few years back, we were surprised to hear from a professional MT who wanted to enroll with us. She didn't have any formal training, and who only knew how to transcribe gastrointestinal files from a specific physician. She lacked the fundamentals and couldn't move to other accounts. After finishing her training and OJT with us, not only did she become a well-rounded MT, she was promoted!
We've also had professional MTs come all the way from the Middle East, since their employers now required them to be registered MTs with certificates. The OTSI training they gained did wonders.
Even if you don't have plans of going abroad, it doesn't hurt to have an MT certificate and training under your belt.
At OTSI, we'll train you to be a top-notch, well-grounded and well-rounded transcriptionist for the world — with NO strings attached.
Before the pandemic, classes were M to F, 9 to 6. Everything is online now, including the OJT. Schedules are flexible, based on your availability! You can do this in your spare time. A lot of our students are call center agents or medical frontliners who work the night shift.
YES! It took a very long time for OTSI to go fully-online, because we didn't want to sacrifice the quality of our training. When COVID-19 struck, we switched to a hybrid, blended learning model where occasional face-to-face training was needed for the crucial parts.
But all technical limitations were gradually solved by: much higher nationwide broadband speeds, modern conferencing, and collaborative apps!
After months of thorough parallel testing, we can proudly say we have successfully replicated the full face-to-face experience. In fact, our fully-online students actually do better than their pre-pandemic counterparts.
Best of all, you can now enroll anytime from any part of the country or the world from the comfort of your home!
Absolutely none! We've had students as young as 16, and as old as 72. As long as you are eager to work, why not? We once hired a 69-year-old student of ours.
Aside from having our own Transcription company, we are a member of HIMAP. Promising students can and WILL be referred to Transcription companies. Literally hundreds of jobs await you!
Our rates for either Allied or Non-allied are quite affordable — less than what you can earn in your first month of a transcription job. Please get in touch with us.
They're all part of what we call the "medical circle of care". The transcriptionists take down doctors' notes and laboratory data — to be further processed by editors and QAs. Medical coders then assign ICD-9 codes from those medical records, which become the bases for Medical billers' invoices and insurance claims.
We have sponsored our MT graduates to train for free. It is BEST that you have medical transcription experience or some medical background first to qualify you for medical coding and billing.
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