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Medical transcriptionist

Shrinking

Transcribing physicians' dictation is a shrinking profession: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects fewer jobs because of speech recognition. Medical terminology knowledge is still useful for checking notes written by AI.

  • 6 lessons
  • 4 tools
  • 3 resources
  • Checked: October 2026

Where this job sits on the map

In the same group: 8 of 100 professions.

What changes

  1. Speech recognition and AI assistants do the transcription themselves

  2. What's left is reviewing and correcting notes made by AI

  3. There's a need for people who understand both medical documents and AI tools

AI drafts, the person decides

How the work splits here: AI prepares a draft, the person checks it and makes the call.

AI makes the draft

What AI does

  • Transcribing dictation and the conversation in the exam room
  • Formatting the note to a template
  • Pulling out diagnoses, orders and dates for a person to check
You check itRead it, check the facts, fix it. Without this check the draft goes nowhere.
You decide and stay responsible

What stays with the person

  • Checking terminology, doses and drug names
  • Catching recognition errors and gaps
  • Keeping patient information confidential (HIPAA)

What to learn first

6 lessons from the course, in order. Start with the first one.

  1. Your first 30 minutes with AI: where to startStarting from zeroYour first 30 minutes with AI: sign up, ask three questions, try seven everyday tasks, learn what never to share and which plan to pick.Start here
  2. How to write a good promptUserHow to give AI a task: the five parts of a good prompt, Plan Mode, and how to refine an answer instead of starting over.
  3. AI ethics and safety: hallucinations, attacks, biasUserHallucinations, prompt injection, bias, privacy and copyright: how not to trust AI blindly.
  4. Voice tools: Aqua Voice, /voice mode, WhisperConfident userVoice instead of keyboard: Claude Code's built-in /voice, dictation apps, Whisper and two-way voice.
  5. Jobs of the future: 100 new and hybrid AI careersUserA map of professions in the age of AI: new, hybrid and fading jobs, skills and scenarios to 2030, with no income promises.
  6. Local AI models: Ollama, LM Studio and private AIBuilderOpen models on your own computer: Ollama, LM Studio, choosing by memory, an LLM router and a document processor.

Which tools to use

  • Transcription on your Mac without sending files to the cloud; 100+ languages.

    Freemium

  • Speech recognition from ElevenLabs: 90+ languages, for recordings and live speech.

    Freemium

  • Transcription for meetings and files in 58 languages.

    Freemium

  • An AI assistant for long documents, analysis and code, with Claude Code and Cowork on paid plans.

    Freemium

Ready-to-use materials

  • A 30-second check before you hit send: what to remove, how to anonymize and what to do if it's already gone out.

    Free

  • Go through an AI answer claim by claim: what's right, what's doubtful, where it's wrong and what to check at the source.

    Free

How to earn with AI

We don't promise income: results depend on your niche, your market and your work.

  • Job

    Move from typing to quality-checking AI-written notes and training clinicians to work with them.

  • Service

    Proofreading and checking medical transcripts and texts that AI prepared.

  • Product

    A glossary of terms and rules for tuning speech recognition in one medical specialty.

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Health, law and finance: AI helps a licensed professional and does not replace one. Nothing here is personal medical, legal or financial advice.

Checked: October 2026