Medical Transcription and Military Spouses - Strange Bedfellows?

Medical transcription is not only a great field in the healthcare industry, it is now being seen as a way to provide military spouses a means of income while traveling with their servicemen and women as they are transferred from post to post every 18-24 months.

The Departments of Defense and Labor, in conjunction with companies in the private sector, have teamed up to provide military spouses a way of pursuing a career that is as mobile as the military assignments given to their mates.

With the advent of technology and the ability to find work both locally and online, medical transcription is an ideal profession to pursue for military spouses who are on the move every few years.

The American Association for Medical Transcription (AAMT) and the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI) have teamed up with the aforementioned governmental agencies not only to promote medical transcription but also to access the largely untapped segment of the population-human resources who are desperately needed at a time when most seasoned, veteran medical transcriptionists are nearing retirement age themselves.

A number of schools have opted to offer financial support or discounts for military spouses taking medical transcription training as an incentive to get into this field. Additionally, graduates of selected medical transcription training programs who earn the registered medical transcription (RMT) credential are eligible to participate in the Department of Labor's approved registered apprenticeship program, another incentive being offered to entice and motivate new talent into the medical transcription field.

Forging this new path in the healthcare field is a necessity at this juncture. It is becoming clear that as more Americans age, the baby boomer generation will burden the healthcare industry and strain it in ways only a few visionaries can truly appreciate. Military spouses and medical transcription make a great marriage of desire to serve and ingenuity to provide our spouses of our military men and women a way in which to serve.

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