Med-Line School of medical Transcription
Med-Line School of Medical Transcription (MSMT) was founded by Maggie Thebeault,CMT, AHDI-F in 1990. The school was taught in a traditional style classroom until 1999. At the same time, Maggie enjoyed a successful medical transcription service partnership with Toni Carlton. Toni and Maggie worked together for 9 years building a successful transcription service, and began developing curricula to appropriately train medical transcriptionists for the acute care sector, as their clients included large teaching hospitals, such as Methodist of Houston, University of Texas, MacGregor Medical Clinic, as well as several hospitals and surgery centers located throughout the United States. In 1998, their medical transcription service, Med-Line Transcription Inc., merged with MedQuist. Maggie assumed the position of Director of Client Services for the Tomball Texas office, following which she went full time into development and promotion of Med-Line School of Medical Transcription.
In 1998, MSMT was licensed and approved by the state of Texas as a distance education career college and has been an advocate for superior education since its inception, keeping the program materials relevant and up-to-date, weathering all kinds of economies since 1998, and has been fortunate to successfully produce and place talented transcriptionists in the acute care sector.
Shortly after establishing and licensing Med-Line as a distance education career school, Maggie founded EMR OmniScribe, LLC, her second Medical Transcription Service Organization (MTSO). Toni Carlton went onto a successful career with the MedQuist Corporation and is now a Director in the HR department.
In 2002, after successfully completion of the Med-Line course, Angela Allison, CMT joined the OmniScribe and Med-Line team and is currently involved in development of the RMT/CMT study groups, as well as instructor for medical terminology and advanced transcription. She has been the transcription supervisor for Omniscribe since 2002, and for the past 6 years has been the supervisor of Med-Line’s paid internship program, a program which has successfully mentored many students through advanced documentation and onto their permanent placement.
In 2003, OmniScribe relocated from Texas to Lake Havasu City Arizona, followed by Med-Line School a few years later. Med-Line School of Medical Transcription is currently licensed by the State of Arizona, and is located in offices at 2550 Kiowa North, Suite 200, in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Med-Line School of Medical Transcription is an AHDI-approved school and the staff maintains committee memberships with AHDI that deal with educational approval of schools, curriculum development, and advocacy in Washington DC for the betterment of the profession. The philosophy of both Med-Line School of Medical Transcription and the sister transcription service, EMR OmniScribe, is that MTs should be required to have their credentials, and Med-Line School brings their students to and through an extensive study group so that they can test for their credentials and graduate with their RMT at the time of completion, and be successfully placed and viewed as a graduate with knowledge and merit.
One of the biggest assets Med-Line School has for the MT community is the one and only paid internship program that has actually provided advanced students with extensive minutes of hands on time, with the bonus of a stipend. Our criteria is simple – trust, trust that the advanced MT student will use the professionalism taught in our courses and has credibility and able to conduct themselves according to the law, ethics, and professional conduct. MSMT has had many successful interns go through the program and most have re-earned their entire tuition in the internship. This has been MSMT’s biggest asset over the years, and unmatched by other schools who have unsuccessfully tried to mimic us. Med-Line is in a unique position because of its affiliation with OmniScribe and other medical transcription service organizations, thus you won’t get a better education anywhere or a better opportunity for successful internship or placement.
In 2009, MSMT went “green” with the design of COSMO, our platform for our students to easily and electronically conduct their studies and turn in their tests and materials. COSMO is the creation of our technology instructor, Lisa Thompson. Lisa has been Med-Line’s technology instructor and administrative representative since April 2007. Her technology skills are specifically dedicated to the field of medical transcription, and she is very well versed in the profession and has excellent understanding of the industry, having been Chief Operations Officer of EMR OmniScribe, a medical transcription service that provides acute care documentation services throughout the United States.
Another milestone for the management team of Med-Line School was our entry into the advocacy efforts for the profession and in 2008, the Med-Line team began journeying to Washington DC on an annual basis to promote the MT career, professionalism and quality documentation, in addition to excellence in programming.
Diane Gilmore, CMT, AHDI-F joined the MSMT team in February 2009 as Director of Education and Transcription Supervisor. She has provided transcription students with mentorship, support, and educational influence that helps them succeed in this curtail portion of their studies.
In 2009, Brenda Dorsett, CMT joined our team as instructor for RMT/CMT study group development and instructorship. In addition, Sandy Shumaker, CMT, ADHI-F of Shumaker Transcription Services in Glendora California came in as an associate instructor. Sandy’s focus is in partnership with all of our advocacy and credentialing efforts.
In 2010, EMR OmniScribe was fortunate to bring on Chad Sines, MS, MBA, AHDI-F, as their Director of Client Services and Security. His talents in the medical transcription service industry, transcription education industry, as well as medicolegal and security operations of profession, are brought by webinar instruction to our students by Chad, in addition to his major involvement in the association and his understanding of the profession being discussed in his weekly blogs, adding professionalism and understanding to our students at a superior level.
As of 2011, we are proudly advocating mandatory credentialing, following the direction of AHDI. In order to provide more to the MT community in support of mandatory credentialing, Med-Line School and EMR OmniScribe expanded their credentialing study groups, and now holds 8 preperatory groups per year. Susie Woods, CMT and Nola Pinkstaff, CMT, AHDI-F joined our efforts to facilitate the additional study groups. With regard to mandatory credentialing, the educators of Med-Line School of Medical Transcription firmly believe that the requirement should also be applied to schools employing educators who are not credentialed. AHDI is rapidly moving towards requiring the profession to be credentialed. MSMT has always required their instructors to be CMTs; all curricula that has to do with medical transcription, is taught by a CMT. It is our endeavor that the profession and our association require all colleges, community and otherwise, to require their instructors likewise to be CMTs, something that has not occurred and is a current focus of our efforts.
MSMT’s goals for now and the future include mandatory credentialing by April 2012 for all MTs in the country, including instructors of all educational programs teaching and/or developing curricula in the field of medical transcription, and to bring the MT students and our MT community to a higher professionalism by our efforts in advocacy, education, credentialing, by our involvement in the association, the community, and by informing our MT audience of significant issues affecting our careers by social networking.
MSMT has always provided the very best education that you can get in this country by dedication to the program, our curricula, use of quality materials and real textbooks, in addition to staying abreast and current with regards to the profession. Med-Line’s efforts and significant advances in medical transcription education have been highly sought after, and mimicked by competing schools. Our instructors are licensed and credentialed, and very actively involved in the profession, and the staff remains active community servants.
Med-Line School will work hard to bring your career to realization by giving you the best education and instructorship, and bring you into the profession as a team member as we work for the betterment of the profession with passion and knowledge.
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