Your transcription practice at the VLC fully prepares you to handle transcription from busy doctors who may dictate under all kinds of different circumstances. Some squeeze in their reports while eating lunch, driving home on a noisy highway, or carrying on a secondary conversation. They may mumble or have an accent unfamiliar to you. They might change their minds about their wording half way through a sentence and start over. You must be ready to take on all of these less than ideal but realistic — situations as a professional MT.
At the VLC, we offer the following number of hours of doctor-dictated practice in our three different courses:
Intermediate: 1080 minutes of realistic dictation to give you
108 hours of practice
Advanced: 1800 minutes of realistic dictation to give you
180 hours of practice
Expert: 2880 minutes of realistic dictation to give you
288 hours of practice
One minute of dictation is equivalent to six minutes of transcription on average
