The medical transcription profession has three main expectations:

• Meet all deadlines – The profession expects you to deliver records in time.
• Meet all quality goals – The profession expects you to maintain the highest standard in quality.
• Ensure security and confidentiality of data – The profession expects you to keep the sanctity of people’s medical information.

Now, these three expectations define how you should work. In one of our earlier posts, I discussed a way to ensure high medical transcription performance. I called it MOLD. MOLD stands for Motivation, Organization, Learning, and Discipline. I believe that these four skills can help us make a good mark in medical transcription career, or for that matter, in any career.

With the nature of medical transcription work, it is likely that you will find it uninteresting and boring in the long run. Only one thing can stop you from feeling this way. Motivation. And the motivation has to come from within, not from external sources. You got to motivate yourself.

Organizational skills are something every professional needs. A transcriptionist cannot work with a disorganized workplace. If you work from home, you have got to pay more attention to the way you work. Proper organization helps you save precious time and keep your calm even when chasing deadlines.

Learning during the job is mandatory for the medical transcriptionist. He/she has to keep updating his/her knowledge base in order to keep working. If you can make room for learning in your everyday routine, you will do well in the profession.

Now, let’s focus on discipline. Well, discipline accompanies your organizational skills but I placed it last in the mnemonic MOLD because it made the term easy to recall.  As a medical transcriptionist, you have to work with a plan and stick to it. You have to be disciplined enough to avoid distractions and focus on your work.

MOLD is how you can beat your peers in the profession and excel.