MT Gab is a virtual community mostly populated by people in the field of medical transcription, hosted by Medword Medical Transcription. We hope you will feel comfortable enough to post your own questions and/or comments. Membership (no fee) is required if you want to add your own comments or reply to messages. A valid e-mail address is required when registering. Medword's MT Gab membership rules help ensure civil exchanges among participants and more reliable information being posted. We hope you'll find MTGab.com to be a friendly, informative, and personally rewarding meeting place. We also hope you will visit MT Gab often to interact with medical transcriptionists and other members in our community.

As with any virtual community, the Medword MT Gab medical transcription forum has unspoken and assumed rules of civilized conduct. We are proud to frequently read that visitors think MT Gab is one of the "nicest" boards they have visited. We agree with this and believe it is because most members of MT Gab follow some simple rules which we hope you will consider following. Following these few rules helps keep our community a friendly place to visit.

• Take the time to familiarize yourself with how to use the features of the MT Gab bulletin board. Please read the "Help" page.
  
• Few things will alienate you more than asking a question that was just answered, so before entering a discussion, read as much of the discussion as possible. If you do need to ask a question, please find out if it has been asked and answered at some other time by using the "Search" feature.
  
• A lot of the members of this bulletin board are here because they like being helpful and because they are interested in medical transcription and all that it entails. None of these helpful members are obliged to answer any questions. So, the best way to approach members is with respect for them and the time they devote to answering your question or solving your problem.
  
• A thank-you or follow-up message for any help given is usually all the wonderful helpful members need to feel that they are appreciated, so please don't be skimpy with the praise when someone has helped you.
  
• Please make sure that when you are posting a comment or question that you are in the correct forum. Members entering specific forums expect to see topics of discussion pertinent to that forum and should not have to wade through "off topic" posts. If your conversation takes off in another direction, please switch over to another forum to have your discussion.
  
• When composing the subject of your post, please make it as descriptive, yet short, as possible. Avoid subject headings like "NEED HELP!" or "NEW MT" and under no circumstances use ALL CAPS. Exclamation marks are rarely needed in subject headings. A good subject heading will make it more likely that members will read your post.
  
• Please note that advertisements (veiled or blatant), chain letters, pyramid schemes, solicitations, job offers, job requests, and links to sites that are considered competitors to our on-line store are disallowed on the MT Gab Bulletin Board and will be deleted at the sole discretion of Medword Medical Transcription. The MT Gab offers free membership but depends on earnings from our Medword on-line store to be able to do so. This point is covered more completely in the Membership Registration Agreement.