It personally took me two cycles to get accepted to med school and one of the biggest differences the second time around was that I had two LOR's from physicians I worked with (one MD, one DO both of which were very strong as they allowed me to read them). You will very likely form close relationships with your docs. Nearly all outpatient clinics run from 8-5 at most and are not open during weekends and holidays (generally). Intensity of clinic varies by physician/specialty, but it will predictable on a daily basis. You will likely work with the same 1-2 physicians (depending on their schedules and your availability) and your shifts will be consistent. Outpatient clinics are typically much more chill to scribe in. Now I will outline the straight positives and negatives of my experience so that you can judge how things can be while working for SA: In my two years of training new scribes I only had to fire a single scribe at this stage! Again, you're training experience is going to vary depending on your clinical site and your trainer! Some docs/specialties are inherently more difficult than others and some trainers could be assholes. Ideally we liked to have to trainees done with 6-7 training shifts but would do up to 10 if needed. We just start you out small doing only a few things in charts (like just writing the HPI) and then gradually add in more elements of the chart and more patients as you progress. I cannot relate to how this process goes in the ER (I imagine its more stressful and hectic), it can be fairly chill depending on your patient clinic. Floor training seems to be the most dreaded part of the training due to the intensity of it. The online training (ScribeU) is pretty straightforward and while we do stress and enforce the "80% to pass" rule, as long as you put forth the effort to keep up with the material and study a little bit it shouldn't be too hard. Our facility also seemingly had lower requirements for their onboarding as well which is nice (only really need to get a TB test, didn't have to worry about vaccines/titers or drug test). Myself, our Senior Account Manager, and other chief scribes were usually very on top of trying to get people set up and onboarded with the company in as timely a manner as we could. As for setting up training, this is something that varies depending on your clinical and how good your managers are. Other accessory questions are asked but these are less important and as long as you don't give any major red flags you should be all good. Typically we liked to see above 50 wpm but would still hire if you were above 40. The next thing we care about is typing speed. If you are a recent graduate coming in looking for full time hours, we usually salivated at that and wanted to hire you immediately. When we interview candidates, the biggest thing we are looking at is your availability. Given my experience in management with this company for so long, I will give some general insights into the hiring and training process. I did not work in the ER so all my experience relates only to scribing in the outpatient setting. For most of this time I also worked as a Chief Scribe. I recently just finished working with SA after scribing for two years at a larger hospital program (several specialties that were all outpatient). Now I'm not going to be blindly defend this company nor ignore these criticisms, but I wanted to give my honest experience to give any prospective scribes an idea of what they may be getting into. Working as a scribe is obviously a very popular job that many premeds use to gain clinical experience, but the common thing I typically see is people heavily criticize ScribeAmerica. I've lurked in this subreddit for awhile, but have never posted.
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