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| May
9 , 2007 - MTC ACADEMY – Baguio opens its doors
to students. |
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There are many prestigious
colleges in Baguio City and it has been said that some
of the best minds have studied and gone to school at the
Philippines’ vacation center. Baguio is truly filled
with learning, art, music and many great historical influences.
MTC Baguio comes at a perfect time when the medical transcription
industry is beginning to pick up. Currently there are
over 10 medical transcription companies. All these companies
are growing rapidly and very eager to hire from MTC Baguio.
That is the primary reason why so many have already registered
in the transcription program |
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| April
27 , 2007 - MTC ACADEMY - Angeles City Opening |
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MTC ACADEMY
- Angeles City opened its door for aspiring Medical
Transcriptionist. Angeles City is known for its long history
with the Americans. Formerly the center for American bases
(Clark and Subic Air Base), Angeles City has grown into
a center for learning and BPO services due to the widespread
influence of Americans within the area. Many BPO services
have opened up at Angeles City giving the city an extra
boost. MTC Angeles upon its opening day experienced exceptional
enrollment due to this high demand for BPO practitioners,
especially within the field of Medical Transcription.
For more information on MTC Angeles, |
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| February
25 , 2007 - MTC Sta. Rosa, Laguna opens its doors to
students. |
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Throughout the past
decade, Sta. Rosa has experienced tremendous growth. A
multitude of high end projects have found home at Sta.
Rosa Laguna such as Brent International School, Brentville,
Enchanted Kingdom, SM Sta. Rosa, and many more. As a result
Sta. Rosa has turned out to be a highly progressive city
on its own. MTC Sta. Rosa has taken advantage of this
opportunity by opening its first school in this area.
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| January
4 , 2007 - MTC Academy is featured at the Philippine
Daily Inquirer. |
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Again paving the way
with its new and more advanced medical transcription course
that includes Speech Recognition Correction, MTC Academy
President, Eugenio Gonzalez hopes to position the Filipino
to fully compliment their US counterparts. MTC utilizes
the latest in speech recognition technology to produce
students that are able to provide a higher level of service
that the offshore market has only begun to take advantage
of. |
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| December
2 , 2006 - MTC Academy is featured at the Manila Bulletin.
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MTC Academy explains
how it is able to meet its long standing promise to students
– to provide the largest number of employment and
entrepreneurial opportunities by offering the best in
Medical Transcription training. MTC has long stood by
the belief that quality will always prevail. To date,
MTC has proven this by maintaining its standing as the
country’s largest and most successful medical transcription
training academy in terms of hiring and retention rates. |
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August
25, 2006 - MTC Academy Turns 3 -
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MTC Academy- the country’s
1st and largest medical transcription school, celebrated
its 3rd year anniversary last August 18, 2006.
The event was celebrated by a thanksgiving
mass headed by Rev. Fr. Boogie Cabrera, MSC, and was followed
by the much anticipated event of the day: the 2nd Annual
MTC Quiz Bee. Students from different MTC branches joined
the said event- MTC Buendia (last years 1st runner-up),
Cavite City, Diliman (defending champion), Alabang, Parañaque,
Batangas (last years 2nd runner-up), Dasmariñas,
Cavite, Ubelt, Taft Ave., Sta. Mesa, Pasig, East Ave,
and San Fernando, Pampanga. Each school gave all out support
for their contestants. As the event shifted to the more
difficult level, only 7 out of the 13 participating schools
remained to battle for the final 3 slots. At the end of
the final round, it was MTC Dasmariñas, Sta. Mesa,
and Buendia who fought gallantly for the championship.
The final round primarily involved hands-on transcription;
each group finalist assigned their representatives for
Transcriptionist, Editor, and Proofreader. A live feed
constantly monitored to the audience the correct results
of the round. In the end, after a through deliberation
of both the judges and participants, MTC Academy Buendia
landed as the quiz bee champion. MTC Dasmariñas
was awarded as the 1st runner up while, MTC Sta. Mesa,
the youngest of the operating branches, won the 2nd runner
up among all the participating schools.
MTC Academy, the country’s premiere
medical transcription school, has truly grown into the
academic establishment it had once only dreamed of. With
the 1st MTC Academy located along Aurora Blvd in QC, it
was initially manned by less than 15 employees and was
managed by its founder Mr. Eugenio Gonzalez. Now, three
years later, MTC Academy has grown exponentially with
over 30 locations, producing over a thousand quality medical
transcriptionist nationwide.
Congratulations to all the winners and see you all next
year for the 3rd Annual MTC Quiz Bee.
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June
18 , 2006 – Parangal
ng Bayan 2006
MTC Academy, National Consumers’
Excellence Awards’ Most Outstanding Medical Transcription
School
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Last February 23, 2006,
MTC Academy, the Philippines first and largest TESDA-
registered medical transcription
school was recognized for the second straight year by
the Parangal ng Bayan Foundation’s 21st Annual National
Consumer Excellence Award as the Most Outstanding Medical
Transcription School in the country.
The
Parangal ng Bayan Foundation, Inc. is one of the country’s
biggest and leading organizations which recognizes and
gives tribute to Outstanding Filipino Achievers, Leaders,
Manufacturers, Products & Services that contributes
to the economic progress of the Philippines.
MTC Academy topped other medical
transcription schools in an independent research and
survey conducted by the foundation.
Accepting the award is Ferdinand
Zafranco of MTC Academy with Franchise Sales Manager
Mark De Ungria, IT Manager Andrew Balanza, and Marketing
Manager Ryan Herrera.
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April 10 , 2006
– 1st Batch of High School
Graduates
Last
April 5, 2006 MTC Academy- Cavite City conducted the first commencement
exercises
for its 1st batch of graduates of the Medical Transcription
for High School Graduate Program.
[ click
for event pictures ] |
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March 06
, 2006 – Top
50 Entrepreneurs
MTC Academy’s President & CEO Eugenio Gonzalez was
recognized by Entrepreneur
Magazine’s
Collectors’ Edition
as one of the Country’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs. [ Full
Article ] |
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November 23, 2005
– MTC
Academy @ Magandang Gabi Bayan
Shown in the above photos (left picture) are MTC Academy
President, Eugenio Gonzalez interviewed by Catherine De Castro,
Host- MGB; and (right picture) Catherine De Castro, MGB Staff
, Eugenio Gonzalez and Judith Acosta, registered nurse and MTCA
student who shared her experience and what made her decide to
pursue a training education in medical transcription.
Last
November 19, 2005 the growing industry of medical transcription
with its huge employment
opportunity that it brings to our country was featured in
Magandang Gabi Bayan. MGB
tackled on how Filipinos will benefit from the big employment
demand in the Medical Transcription
Industry: according to the US Department of Labor, employment
of medical transcriptionists
(MTs) is projected to grow faster than the average for all
occupations through
2012.
Currently,
there are vast employment opportunities for MTs in the country;
local Medical Transcription
Service Organizations (MTSOs) prefer to hire experienced transcriptionists
or those
who have completed training in medical transcription. |
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October
21, 2005 –
MTC and Innovaquest, Inc. Forge a Partnership to hire Medical
Tanscriptionists
MTC
Academy and Innovaquest have forged a new partnership where
students that have
graduated under the new profiling and testing system of
MTC find employment at any of InnovaQuest's
12 existing production centers throughout the country. Under
this partnership, Innovaquest
as a strategic partner of MTC, implements client specific
training requirements within
the MTC curriculum to more effectively align graduates with
the needs of Innovaquest
US based client's.
Steve
Dunkle, President and CEO of Innovaquest said " this
new partnership shows strong
support for MTC graduates and the Philippine transcriptionist
as well as our own clients.
Overall, Innovaquest is dedicated to giving MTC graduates
the guidance they need in locating
the right employment in any of the production centers located
throughout the country as
well as aligning them with the needs and expectations of
our clients. "
Innovaquest
has an existing base of 12 locations and is growing at an
average rate of 2 new
facilities per month. "We continue to hire as many
MTs as MTC can effectively recruit, educate
and provide after they have gone through our own profiling
and interview process. Based
upon present requirements and projections, by the end of
next year we anticipate having
in excess of 4,500 MTs working in 45 locations after graduating
from any one of the targeted
60 MTC school locations throughout the Philippines by 2007.
Due to an increased demand
from other countries, we are now exploring providing our
model of education and production
with a set curriculum into other areas where the desire
to create a quality based BPO
operation exists."
For
more information or inquiries on how our model may be replicated
visit Innovaquest at
www.innovaquest.com.
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| October 15 to 20, 2005
- MTC Shows Support for the
Philippine Medical Transcription Industry at the
AHIMA Conference.
MTC
Academy, along with MTIAPI attended the American Health Information
Management
Association
(AHIMA) convention at San Diego California. MTC represented
the educational
successfully represented and promoted the MT industry at the
Philippines.
AHIMA
is the premier association of health information management
(HIM) professionals. AHIMA's
50,000 members are dedicated to the effective management of
personal health information
needed to deliver quality healthcare to the public. Founded
in 1928 to improve the quality
of medical records, AHIMA is committed to advancing the HIM
profession in an increasingly
electronic and global environment through leadership in advocacy,
education, certification,
and lifelong learning. (Should any of this be in quotes?)
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| September
15, 2005 – The
Philippines 1st Nationwide Central Profiling System for Medical
Transcriptionists
MTC
implements the country’s first central profiling system
that is patterned after the AAMT
Certified Medical Transcription Board Examinations. Through
its state-of-the-art dual back
up testing system, MTC now guarantees that all students graduate
with a minimum of 98%
quality per report and a minimum daily production rate at
a 350 lines per day.
Eugenio
M. Gonzalez, the President of MTC said, “This is a bold
step for MTC in its move for
a single standard of quality so that it can guarantee to accuracy
and quality all corporate partners
and clients .”
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summary, the new system sets the tone for the entire medical
transcription education industry
by assuring all corporate partners and clients a single standard
insuring that quality, accuracy
and education are synonymous with MTC Academy.
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October
01, 2005 - Understanding
the MT Outsourcing Business Batch 7
MTC
Academy President & Founder Eugenio Gonzalez
gives an outlook on the Philippine MT Industry
MTC
Academy, the country's first and largest MedTrans
training network in the country held
its 7th seminar on "Understanding the Medical
Transcription Outsourcing Business” conducted
at the MTC Academy Central Office in Makati. The
seminar is designed for entrepreneurs
and professionals who are interested in investing
in a billion-dollar business - The
Medical Transcription Outsourcing Business. Top
U.S industry presenters were invited to give
brief backgrounders on the business opportunities
that await investors via webcast. Among
the speakers were Peter Preziosi, Executive Director
of the American Association for Medical
Transcription; John Weiss, Vice President, Scribe
Healthcare Technologies; Beth Tribblehorn,
AAMT Board of Director; and Elaine Olson, President,
Tele Trans Medical Trancription,
Inc. Seminar batch 8 kicks off next month in Manila
and Cebu. For further inquiries,
please call 8907372 / 8907319 or email us at seminar@mtcacademy.com
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| August
20, 2005 - MTC ACADEMY KICKS OFF ITS SECOND
ANNIVERSARY WITH THE LAUNCH OF ITS FIRST
ANNUAL QUIZ BEE - MTCA Turns 2! The Best
and Largest Medical Transcription School in
the country celebrated its 2nd year anniversary
last August 18, 2005 at the MTC Academy- Central
Office in Makati. The anniversary was highlighted
with the launch of the 1st Annual National
MTCA Quiz Bee. Participants from different MTC Academy
branches gathered to take part
in this most anticipated anniversary event. Among
the top MT student contenders were from
MTC Buendia, MTC Cavite, MTC East Avenue, MTC Diliman
(DCTI-MTC), MTC Alabang, MTC
Batangas, and MTC Dasmarinas.
Dra.
Gia Sison- MTCAs Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
was the event quiz master.
Questions were given in different levels and the
top 3 finalists were made to do actual transcriptions
to identify who among them is the best. Familiarity
and knowledge of Medical terms,
as well as 95% accuracy standard in transcription
were used as the basis for judgment.
MTC
Academy – Cavite City added to the festivities
by doing an ethnic dance to the beat
of a hip-hop tune, surprising each and everyone
present.
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the end there can only be one. MT students from
MTC Diliman was declared champion
MT school for the year 2005. Coming in as 1st
runner-up were students from MTC Buendia
and the 2nd Runner-up was awarded to MTC Batangas
students. Trophies, medals, and
gift checks were given to the winning teams and
certificates of participation were awarded
to all contestants. Congratulations to the MTC
Family for a very successful event!
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August
10, 2005 - MTC Academy heads SOUTH
and joins the METRO SOUTH JOB FAIR. Visit us at
the Expo
Trade Hall of the Festval Supermall, Alabang on
August 11 to 13, 2005 and realize the benefits
of being a Medical Transcriptionist and find out
why time and time again MTC is the preferred
choice of medical transcriptionists throughout the
country.
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August
9, 2005 - Find
out what opportunities there are in Medical Transcription
Be part of a billion dollar industry.
MTC Academy is going to conduct a free career
orientation at the 1st National Healthcare
Expo at the Mega Trade Hall 1 of SM Mega Mall.
MTC Academy career orientation starts
at 3:30 pm on the 10th of August 2005.
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August
6, 2005 - MTC Academy turns 2 this
August 18! The group of companies celebrate at Sentro
Manila.
After successfully educating and placing thousands
of students MTC management has
set its objectives higher to establish an additional
20 schools within the next 12 months.
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August 4, 2005
- MTC Academy appears on Pipol next week
with Ces Drilon showcasing the vision of Eugenio
M. Gonzalez, the president of MTC. In the interview
he explains how MTC and the ITO group
has influenced thousands of jobs in the country
and the establishment of hundreds of MT
businesses.
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| August
2, 2005 - MTC Academy appeared in
GMA 7 on 24 Oras on August 1 and 4 showcasing the
opportunities
in the medical transcription profession. |
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