Recently, I met and interviewed on the web Jari Davis of Meditech in Utah. She is an example of an idea person with depth and breadth of experience. We need more people like her in the on-line MT community. We need good content, creative ideas, and clear communication. From my current on-line perspective, MTs have many new options for research and networking on the Web, with well over 100 message boards available.
Medical sites offer documentation for almost any new word.
New MTs on-line are celebrating the fact that they find starting positions a little more easily, but internships are still rare. Experienced MTs have many choices for employment among the 80 or so national companies as well as their local market. One Web site offers a typing speed test, another a skills assessment test. We have discovered about 10 new MT companies forming in India and Pakistan and arranging their own accounts. There are three companies forming Web-based rental dictation services.