Tips for Taking Your Credentialing Exam
You will remember that not too long ago we celebrated with Susan Ledger when she passed her RMT exam. She graciously agreed to write some ideas and tips for those who are taking their credentialing exam. While Susan took the RMT, these are great tips for either test. Thanks, Susan, for the awesome post. Over to Susan!
Hello Everyone!
After I passed the RMT Exam last month, I was asked to compile some tips and suggestions for those of you who will be taking the exam in the future. I’m sorry that I did not write this sooner, but I took the exam immediately before going on vacation. We just returned home yesterday after being gone for 2 weeks. So….here is my email with RMT Exam tips and suggestions!
Let me preface this by saying that these are things that I did to prepare for the exam and they are things that worked for me. Not everyone will want to do these things, and they may not work for everyone. Read what I have written here and decide if you want to use these things and if they will work for you. Everyone is different, and all things do NOT work for all people! As I said, these things worked for me.
1) First and foremost, you MUST get over being afraid of taking the exam!! I don’t want to belabor this point, but put your fears aside, sign up for the exam, and JUST TAKE IT! Your fear will cripple you, and that is the worst thing you can do to yourself in preparing for the test. The worst thing that can happen is that you don’t pass. If that happens, you just take it again; it is NOT the end of the world! That was the mindset I had going into the exam, and I believe it helped me.
2) On a similar note to #1, DON’T PROCRASTINATE! The longer you put off preparing for the test, scheduling it, and taking it, the worse it will be for you. I know this sounds harsh, but it’s true.
3) Be totally committed to getting your credential. Getting my RMT was my primary career goal after finishing MT school with Career Step. Make the commitment to prepare for the exam thoroughly, schedule the test, and then take it. Make passing that test your main goal!
4) If you were a member of a Study Group, be sure to complete all the work that was given in that Study Group. I made sure that I completed each and every page, each and every exercise. I read everything that was given as a reading assignment. Trust me, finishing all of your study group work will help you!!
5) OK. Now you have put your fear aside and you are committed to passing the exam. You’ve completed your study group and all the study group assignments. What’s next? After I finished my study group (which was 6 months long…), I had about a month left before my exam date. To make sure I got in the maximum amount of studying in all the necessary content areas, I prepared a study sheet for myself. The study sheet was just a chart with a column for the date, and 5 columns for content areas. (You can make as many columns as you need for the various content areas.) Each day I would work on at least one of the content areas and then enter it on the study sheet with the date. This way, I kept track of what areas I had worked on and which ones I had not worked on. Coupled with the main study sheet, I created an additional study sheet for some of the study tools I was using. For example, I created a study sheet specifically for the RMT Review Guide CD. On that study sheet, I marked down the date and which exercises I completed and what my scores were for those exercises. This way, I was able to keep track of the specialty areas I had worked on and those I had not worked on.
6) An important note about #4 above… During the study group and during the month after the study group (the month prior to my exam), I spent some time studying every day. There may have been one or two days that I missed, but I made the commitment to do *some* studying every day….some days I would do a half hour, other days I would do 3 or 4 hours. It would just depend on my schedule and what I had going on that day. The thing to remember is that the consistency of regular studying keeps your mind fresh and your content recall strong. I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND that everyone dedicate some time to studying *every day*, right up until the day of your test.
7) Someone wanted to know what I found to be my best/favorite study tool(s) in preparing for the exam. Honestly, I have to say that the RMT Review Guide CD and the Stedman’s Medical Terminology CD were my favorite tools for preparing for the exam. I’m a visual learner, so using these CDs was very effective for me; if you are not a visual learner, you may not find them as useful.
Here are some things I did on exam day that were helpful:
a. My Prometric Center was in Raleigh, NC (1 ½ hours from my home), so I left EARLY to make sure I didn’t get lost or get delayed by traffic tie-ups. I highly recommend leaving early. Better to be early and wait than be late and told you can’t take the exam.
b. If you can do it, take someone else with you on exam day. (My husband went with me.) The other person can drive you to the test center, which helps you to relax and do some deep meditation on the way. 
Also, if you have someone else with you, you can CELEBRATE together after you find out that you passed!!! My husband and I celebrated with ice cream from Coldstone Creamery. We had to drive home, so we didn’t celebrate with anything stronger until later!
c. Make sure you have plenty of food in your stomach before you take the exam. We got lunch right before my exam, which was scheduled for 1 p.m.
d. If you get to the Prometric Center early, the staff *may* allow you to begin your exam early. This, I’m sure, depends on each individual test center. In my case, I arrived at Prometric at 12:25. They had an exam spot available 5 minutes later, so they allowed me to begin the exam at 12:30 even though my scheduled exam time was 1 p.m.
e. You are given one scheduled break during the exam…between Part I and Part II. Be sure to take the break! It gets you out of the testing room, giving you time to regroup mentally and physically. (It is either a 10- or 15-minute break; I can’t remember which one it is.)
9) During the exam…
a. TAKE YOUR TIME!!! You have several hours, so there is no need to rush!
b. Read each question slowly and carefully; read each one twice, if necessary. Some questions may be worded in a tricky way, so you have to be careful.
c. Go through the exam and answer first all the questions you are sure about.
d. Next, “mark” those that you answer but are not sure of AND/OR those you leave blank. The exam has a nifty tool that allows you to “mark” questions, so be sure to make use of that feature.
e. A rule of thumb to follow is that your first guess is usually the correct one. Believe me, I’ve learned the hard way with this MANY times! If you put down a guess for an answer, leave it. Don’t go back and change it to something else. Laws of probability dictate that your chances of getting the question correct with the FIRST answer are greater than if you change it to something else.
f. On the transcription part of the exam, you can fast forward and rewind the dictation, but you CANNOT slow down the dictation…unfortunately. L There *is* a volume control, so that seemed to help me. I actually found the dictation part of the RMT exam EASIER than the transcription portion of my Career Step final exam. Go figure! My only recommendation for this part of the exam is to practice, practice, practice before the exam. The RMT Review Guide transcription exercises are really great.
Well, those are my RMT Exam tips and suggestions. I hope they help. Again, these are things that worked for me; they may not work for you. I’m also a very organized (Type A) person, so I had to have an organized study plan….it’s just how I do things!
If anyone has any questions after reading this, just send me an email. (SFLMT1@gmail.com) I’ll be happy to help if I can! Also, if there are any other tips and/or suggestions I forgot to include here, I’ll send them along if and when I remember them.
Best of luck! NOW GO MAKE YOUR STUDY PLAN AND SCHEDULE YOUR EXAM!!!!!!
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I just have 1 question and 2 comments:
Comment #1: Congratulations again on passing your exam on the first try, and thank you for taking the time to compose this list of hints!
Comment #2: I wasn’t aware that you found out IMMEDIATELY whether you passed or not! (I’m guessing that the “academic” portion of the test, at least, is done electronically then? Right is right, wrong is wrong.)
Question: I have been wondering…exactly WHAT is the difference in the credentials CMT and RMT? Before this course, I had actually never even heard of “RMT,” so I’m not just being stupid here, I really don’t know. I don’t even know what an RMT is or does as compared to an MT or CMT, and as far as I know a CMT is an MT who has just passed that credentialing exam? (I mean, I know there are possible benefits. You definitely get to put the credential after your name, but it doesn’t guarantee you a higher line rate because that is negotiated individually for each contract you have, etc.)
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Kathy Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Sherry, as I understand it, you also find out immediately if you passed on the CMT. Everything is computer graded these days!
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Hi Sherry!
Thank you for the congratulations. Kathy asked me to write the blog post, and I was happy to do it.
Yes, after taking the RMT exam, you find out IMMEDIATELY whether or not you passed. It is entirely computer-generated and scored, so that’s why you get the results right after you finish the test. I’m not sure if this is the same for the CMT exam. Maybe someone else here who has taken that test can comment on that.
The difference in the RMT and CMT credentials can be found on the AHDI website. Under “Credentialing” it shows the knowledge base required to take each of the 2 exams. That is the best way to see the difference between them. Basically, an RMT is a less-experienced (or new) MT who has taken and passed the first-level credentialing exam. The CMT is the credentialing exam for experienced MTs (again, the requirements are on the AHDI website….). I believe (I may be wrong here…) an MT must have at least 2 years experience to take the CMT exam. Also, an MT does not have to pass the RMT before taking the CMT. With the required experience, an MT can take the CMT without having taken the RMT.
Hope that helps, Sherry!
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This may sound really stupid, but I’m wondering, then, since the RMT is for the “less experienced or newer” MTs (even though I do have more than 2 years under my belt), if I am a little self-conscious and wanted to “practice-test,” I’m wondering if it would be a good idea to take the RMT exam. Also, if I DO take the RMT exam and pass (which I believe I would do), how long would they (the State or whoever) require you to wait until you could take the CMT exam? I would have to check all that out, and also the cost to take the RMT exam. I already checked out the cost of the CMT exam. I don’t remember offhand what the cost was, but I CAN say I’d better pass it on the first try because I don’t want to pay a testing fee more than once!
Thanks for taking the time to reply, Sue!
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Hi again Sherry,
IMHO, if you are, as you say, self-conscious and wanted to practice-test, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t and shouldn’t take the RMT first. In regard to your other question (how long you’d have to wait to take the CMT)… I really don’t know the answer to that. You would have to contact the AHDI credentialing office and ask them. The information on the cost for the RMT and CMT exams is on the AHDI website. Just FYI…in addition to the cost for the actual exam, when you apply to take the test, there is a $10 application fee that you pay.
Hope that helps!
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OK…I went to the AHDI website. Here’s the info. on the cost for the 2 exams:
CMT exam: $195 for AHDI members, $275 for nonmembers
RMT exam: $120 for AHDI members, $200 for nonmembers
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Hi, Sue. Thanks again….I guess I was kind of thinking out loud, and thinking that others might be thinking and feeling the same way, too. I appreciate your research and help; I really didn’t expect anyone to do that for me.
I hope to take my exam (CMT probably, since I just can’t afford the EXTRA money to take the RMT exam first) between October and the end of the year, although it might need to be delayed. I can’t believe how cotton picking BUSY I am all the time! I have been working IC for one company and just picked up a new account for helping with vacation coverage (just for a few days, but am working on a couple jobs a day prior to jumping into it with both feet), and then 2 days ago out of the blue, my supervisor at the hospital where I used to work at called to say THEY have transcriptionists taking vacations and so they are getting really backlogged and would I be interested in working any hours for them? (There are drawbacks to that, however. The transcriptionists are included in the union membership, so I have to find out if I would have to join AGAIN….if so, the cost would be prohibitive for such an iffy/on-and-off position, maybe only amounting to as few as 8 hours, you know? Also, when you work within the City limits of Warren, PA, they make you pay this set fee like $60 or something. It’s a one-time payment for as long as you are employed at a place, but it’s kind of like paying “for the privilege of being allowed to work in Warren,” you know? They just make me mad! They already get a share of the payroll taxes, so why do they feel the need to do that, too?
Anyway, when it rains, it pours! LOL
I love being busy and feel like pulling my hair out with boredom when I’m not, but when you get so busy that you feel like you have to make an appointment with yourself to make supper of even baked beans and hotdogs, something is just wrong! I obviously need to take a look at everything I do each day and prioritize things and possibly call a halt to some of what I’m doing so that I can have a little “me” time. Anybody else feeling like that, too?
You know, I think women are faced with at least a double-whammy these days. If you have a job or career, either outside the home or at home if you have that ability (like I’m sure most of us do who work as MTs and are members of this community), you are faced with the challenge of getting everything done in “never enough hours in the day.” How do you who have growing children handle this? All I have is a fairly undemanding husband and 3 parakeets and it is all I can do to stay semi-sane. (Maybe I’m not and just think I am?) How do you all go about deciding on the priorities in your life? I have actually met women whose homes are always immaculate and who always have perfect makeup and nice clothes on and wondered how they do it. I think I look and feel frazzled most of the time. I want to know the secrets to their calm and peaceful and beautiful lives! So, if any of you resemble the lady whose home and family are written up in an article in “House Beautiful,” would you let me know how you do it?
Trying to find enough time to even study for the CMT exam has become a major undertaking. Officially, the dates for the course I signed up for are over, and I’m STILL working on it…and due to all the remodeling projects, transcription work each day (except I am actually taking off weekends now), housekeeping and wifey things, visiting in-laws when we need to and now coming up for a week in August (right at my birthday, wouldn’t you know?) my m-i-l will be coming to spend a week with us….how did they used to say that, “I’m too pooped to pop?” (Not to mention I’m working on doing all kinds of “updating” to my home office so that no “surprise audit” is going to catch me unawares when it comes to all the new HIPAA changes.)
I want to start a NEW community…one of women who are doing too much and are just pooped! Any takers to joining this community? LOL
I know this ended up in the wrong blog because of talking about community, but it started out talking about the CMT exam! Talk about multi-tasking!
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Kathy Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Boy, I can’t help but respond to this one, Sherry. I’m in the middle of reading a pretty awesome book called “Captivating.” It’s about how women are made and last night it talked about how TIRED we are. I’m blessed with a husband who loves to cook, always cleans up after himself, and is great with helping around the house. I invested in someone coming in once every week or two to do all the dusting and vacuuming. If I didn’t have that, not sure how it would get done all the time. My niece has three kids and she makes it work, does it all herself, and is pretty amazing. Maybe it’s the energy of the young? LOL I have found myself lately feeling like I’m meeting myself coming and going as well. Although the schedule is starting to lighten up a bit, in two weeks I will be gone for the AHDI meeting and that means extra scrambling before and after. It’s a never ending cycle. I started a “happiness project” on my personal blog, which really didn’t get much attention, but I must admit I dropped the ball there, too little time. Go figure, too little time to work on happiness?
Now I am wishing there was a women’s group to do a group study with this book I’m doing as I find it so fascinating and spot on.
It IS about multi-tasking. I think it’s also about creating a values list and trying to be sure that everything we do aligns with our values. That’s what works best for me these days.
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Kathy, I absolutely KNEW as I was typing that you would definitely chime in! Of course, I don’t know all of the things you do on a daily basis or the “special” things you fit in (or cram in) whenever you make a new commitment, PLUS I know about you reading a lot and writing commentaries on the books for whatever that company is. Yes, I absolutely KNEW you would understand how I’m feeling about not enough time in the day! I’m sure there could be 48 hours in the day, and all it would mean to me would be more hours to get tired! Something has to give SOON, or I’m sure I’m going to collapse from exhaustion and then EVERYTHING will suffer, and more than minimally.
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I, too, understand how you are feeling, Sherry.
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Back to a question on the CMT exam…..even the TRANSCRIPTION part is graded instantly/immediately? Now that would be weird! I guess that would mean that every wrong keystroke is a killer! OUCH!!
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Okay, Sherry, Sue, Kathy, and others,
I’m gonna jump in here and offer my sage advice – my one-size-fits-all formula for “I Am Woman” success (cue up my theme song, as I sing gustily, “I can bring home the bacon – fry it up in a pan … and never let you forget you’re a man!”)
My formula for doing it all is, simply, I don’t. I focus on focusing – my attention with my 6-year-old, my conversations with my husband, the rare moments I get to indulge in that wonderful and vital pasttime of reading, interacting with others on-line and via email and phone calls, etc. What gets shorter and shorter shrift is housework (used to be passable, now probably in fear of the health department receiving and then acting on an anonymous tip), shopping (I buy what I need when I need it, and I let things I really enjoy and can afford be my “therapy” instead of making myself feel better at our budget’s expense), and last but not least, trying to project that image – that fake, nowhere image of being perfect and having it all together. Because I just don’t.
About 10 years ago, as we were driving down the street, I asked my husband, in all sincerity, “How old were you when you gave up on your list of hopes and dreams?” He nearly drove off the road – it upset him because he thought I had plunged to the depths and, of course, he also thought it meant that I was saying Prince Charming was no longer measuring up. It wasn’t that – it’s just that as we mature, our longings mature with us. Some dreams don’t die, but others fade and get replaced with newer dreams that allow us to do things that are of eternal rather than temporal significance. We find profound joy in things in this stage of our life that would have seemed like fuddy-duddy interests 20 years ago. And that doesn’t make either of those types of dreams wrong or right – it just means that they’re different. For instance, I pretty much know at my age I will never skydive or climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty – no, really, I won’t – but I may still someday record a CD, travel to Europe, and take a ballroom dancing course.
In 1995, I made a New Year’s Resolution that I would become certified that year, and I did. I had been an MT for 18 years when I sat for the exam, and I was absolutely terrified. But I still remember with a huge smile on my face the sheer JOY I felt when I knew I had passed it, that I was a credentialed, certified MT. Intrinsic rewards are sometimes the best of all.
At ACE in 2008, I was wandering casually through the exhibit hall in Reno and saw a booth for Kaplan University. It was another one of those “moments in time,” and I soon found myself talking to a recruiter about pursuing my bachelor’s degree in … something, I didn’t know – I just knew that that was one of those dreams that had never gone away and now was the time to make it come true. On August 7 of this year, just 17 days from now, I will “walk across that stage” and receive my bachelor’s degree in organizational communication. See, I started college right out of high school, but because of changes in my family’s dynamics and finances, I had to quit school after my freshman year and go to work to support myself. That’s when I “fell” (yeah, right, God) into transcription and have been rolling in that particular field of clover happily ever since. Getting my degree is personal fulfillment beyond my wildest dreams. I still have no idea what I will “do” with it, but I have it.
Do I still feel like those hopes and dreams have died? Some of them, yes. But in so many other ways, I have so many more things I want to do now and find great joy in discovering them and watching them come to fruition. On my list of worthy goals, I have scratched off the desire to keep an immaculate house, partly because my family could live in abject filth and never notice, and partly because I can, like the old saying, “keep it clean enough to be healthy, but dirty enough to be happy.” And like Kathy, I have finally (after 30 years of longing and begging) hired someone who comes in and helps with the actual cleaning on a regular basis.
My professional focus has not changed in 33 years – and that is to give every patient in whose care I participate the very best and most perfect documentation of their healthcare that I am able to provide. As an association leader, my goal is to continue to provide relevant opportunities for my fellow-members – for education, for networking, for advocacy, and for excellence.
None of us can do it all. We just have to learn how to make small changes (like opening the mail over the garbage can and throwing about 80% of what receive into file 13 without even opening it, including – gasp! – catalogs), how to keep a file of coupons at our fingertips so we can clip while on the phone or spending time in a waiting room or in line for the carpool, how to keep the books we’re reading in all the right strategic spots (the bathroom, the bedside table, and on my work desk) so that we keep stimulating our minds. The ideas for organization are out there, but most are based on common sense and most MTs are beyond brilliant enough to figure out what they need to do to take care of their own needs in this area.
Just remember – communities such as the one Kathy is helping to build here, some AHDI components, some Facebook groups, etc. – are there to be your biggest cheerleaders. The most important thing they can contribute to you is the recurring mantra of You Can Do This (whatever “This” is for you). You really can. God bless you as you continue to work on figuring out how to have that meaningful life I can tell you desire to have, and may He bring you exactly the tools you need to make it happen. I’m rooting for you.
P.S. And yes, read “Captivating” by John and Staci Eldredge. It will answer so many of your “woman” questions. Bring tissues.
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Kathy Reply:
July 21st, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Wow, Miriam, what a great response. I do think our “must haves” change in life and it’s okay. Organization, yep that’s a key. For me, so is keeping less clutter around. While I lived in Barbados (spent two years there), I learned just how little I really needed to be happy. My apartment was completely furnished, I took a few of my own linens, my “special” pots and pans (a few of them) and clothes. I did bring a lot of stuff in during my time there, but I still learned that we rarely need all of the “things” we think we do. Oh yea, I took my small CD player causes I wanted the music. What I found was I really didn’t miss the “things.” My biggest challenge was to get books to the island because the bookstore is pretty small. I solved that with a Kindle, so now I carry most of my reading on that. Barbados did a lot to mellow me out and work on my type A personality. I’ve spent the last six months without a Blackberry, only using a cell phone rarely. However, I must confess I did get a new Blackberry today because I feel business now warrants it. At the same time, having gone without it, this time around, I’m determined to not let it rule my life like it did before.
One of the things I love about this community is that these kind of things DO come up and we can talk about them. It all impacts our lives! Thanks guys.
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Sherry,
Yes, you take Part I (multiple choice) then you get a 10 (or 15…I forget) break. You go back to the testing room and take Part II (the transcription part). When you are finished, you go out of the testing room and they give you your results.
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Loved what you wrote, Miriam. Thanks for sharing all of that with us…..inspiring!!
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I don’t want to sound gushy or anything, but I really want to thank Miriam. It makes a lot of sense that not only as we get older do WE change but also we have to just become more realistic and/or sensible about what our dreams are. For example, a dream I had in elementary school was to be a ballet dancer. I never pursued it at the time, and if I tried to be a ballet dancer today–in MY state of health, or lack of–I’d either kill myself or at least be laughed out of any dance school I attended. So, I guess a lot of what our LIFE priorities can be HAVE to be relevant to what is still possible for us at the time (and this probably means both physically and financially). I know that I would love to be able to travel, but realistically I know that my travel plans include at most a day trip maybe to Niagara Falls or something like that and not some glamorous cruise around the world, which would be my dream vacation, but realistically I know it’s not going to happen so I adapt that goal to what IS realistic.
As for the other things that Miriam mentioned (especially focusing on whatever is going on or whatever you are doing AT THAT MOMENT and giving it your full attention) are great advice. An ex-mother-in-law had a small sign in a VERY messy “studio” area in her house that said, “A clean house is a sign of a messy mind.” I remember my mom always saying when I was a kid, “My house may be dirty, but it’s clean dirt.” I guess I’m just so envious of the lady with the perfectly-kept house, always dressed nicely, always with perfect makeup and hair….she usually also has an immaculate car and the “perfect” husband and “perfect” son and daughter (maybe they’re even adorable twins). I know this just makes me discontent with the things I have, and that’s wrong because I actually have so much more than so many other people. I don’t have the BEST health, but I’m not wheelchair bound or in the terminal wing of a hospital waiting for my last breath. Even though our economy is unsteady and my husband could end up without a job and we could lose our home, at least for now, we have food, clothes, insurance, 2 cars, the ability to communicate with the outside world vs. living in an appliance box in an alley somewhere wondering where our next meal will come from or how we will ever get back on our feet again when we have no car anymore, no way to clean ourselves up or get decent clothes to wear to a job interview–or even if we would maybe come down with some disease while living on the street that would take our lives, you know? I have so many blessings that I should have absolutely no right to do any complaining. It brings tears to my eyes and makes me ashamed of myself. Also, I get hung up on things like my husband’s mother. Because she is the ways she is, which always rubs both me and Chris the wrong way, we DON’T really enjoy being with her, and part of that is that she doesn’t get along with her husband and puts Chris in between them, all the while trying to pull him closer to her and further from his father. (This is a whole story in itself, but I guess the point I’m trying to make HERE is that Chris’ family dynamics are so totally different from mine! What he sees as “normal,” I see as dysfunctional. I can’t even tell you how many times he said he wished his family was like mine!)
It can be very hard to (like Oprah would say) “be 100% in the moment” because the littlest thing can sneak in and try to gain your attention. But I am going to print off Miriam’s post and highlight the really important parts and try to make some changes in my life. I can’t change my in-laws. They are untouchable and beyond hope as far as I’m concerned. But if pay more attention to whatever I’m doing at the time, I can be more profitable while I’m working, I can get more done around the house during whatever time I devote to it, I can maybe even make my husband feel more special because when I have a conversation with him I will really be a better listener, etc. I can’t help but think that Miriam’s advice and suggestions are probably the best that I have heard in most of my life.
Thank you, Miriam, for your level head and your good advice. You’re more of a friend than you may ever know, and I’m sure glad we are sisters in here!
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I am in the process of taking the Workforce Readiness Course thru WIA program. I will scheduling to take the RMT exam shortly. I know some of you will think I’m crazy at taking this course so late in life (I’m 61 years old), have been out of work for 18 months. Being a Medical Transcriptionist has been a long-time dream of mine but never pursued it, and now at this age I am. I am really nervous about taking the RMT exam, trying to remember everything I have learned this past year. I see there is “The RMT Review Guide”. Has anyone used that book? I have bidded on 2 on Ebay and missed the bid. Was wondering if anyone had it that would rent it to me or let me borrow it. I really don’t have the funds right now to buy it out right. I’ve been trying to find a reduced price one. Sue, thank you for your post. I am going to print your tips. I will post and let you all know how I did on the exam. My stomach is already getting in knots.
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Sorry, I missed it where Sue used the Guide. My apologies
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Libby:
I have found I am able to buy MANY used books online at amazon.com at a very reasonable price. Have you checked there? Just a thought, and I won’t assume you have or haven’t.
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Sherry, I have but I do continue to check daily. Thank you!
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Libby,
You’re welcome! As I said, this blog post was Kathy’s idea…she asked me to write it.
RE: Being crazy to become an MT later in life…
Libby….you are only 6 years older than me!! I started MT school when I was 54 years old. My belief is that it is **never** too late. I just read a story in this morning’s paper about a woman who lived in an iron lung for most of her life (over 60 years) due to polio she acquired as a child. In spite of her situation, this woman graduated from Wake Forest University!
Best of luck on the RMT! Let us know what happens!!
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