Medical transcription is one of the largest employment generating jobs especially in the developing countries. There is a large call for people for doing transcription. Most of these jobs are outsourced form developed countries like United States, Britain, and Australia and so on. The process works as follows. When a patient visits a doctor, the doctor discuss with the patient on the health issue which includes all the symptoms apart from the past history. The doctor will examine the patient based on all the collected information and prescribe the medicine. When the patient leaves the consultation room the doctor will record all the important history on the consultation either by recording in a cassette or by dialing a number where the voice will be recorded in the central server of the hospital.

The audio piece will be sent to a person working in the medical transcription field in order to convert the audio data in to text format. The person is known as medical transcriptionist. They should be familiar with all the medical terms and should have a very good listening skill in order to write the data in to text format. The doctor should also be careful in speaking out the information very slowly so that it must be understood by the medical transcriptionist. When the patient visits again the doctor will ask for the medical record that was prepared under the patients name and it will contain all the recorded information in accurate medical format prescribed by the hospitals. Only basic education is needed to qualify as a medical transcriptionist. Apart from that all the necessary knowledge on the medical terms will be given by the special training obtained from the training school for this job. In some places the outsourcing company will provide training for all fresh job aspirants. Actual training period will last up to six months.

These jobs are outsourced to developing countries like India, China, and SriLanka and so on because of the cheap labor charges. If these jobs are done in the same country the charge to be paid for a medical transcriptionist is very high. Apart from this, the job also offers the facility to work from home. This is very helpful for all those educated people who are not in a position to move out of the house and go for job. Indeed this sector is bringing high revenue to many parts of the world.