Anesthesiologist vs urologist

[Scrizzy]

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So I am being offered a scribe job to work with a anesthesiologist or urologist. Which do you guys think is better to learn from? I'm siding with the anesthesiologist right now, but I like to hear opinions.

Edit: I also had previous experience as a emergency room medical scribe.

 

[bluepeony]

So I am being offered a scribe job to work with a anesthesiologist or urologist. Which do you guys think is better to learn from? I'm siding with the anesthesiologist right now, but I like to hear opinions.

Edit: I also had previous experience as a emergency room medical scribe.

Wouldn't u have more exposure seeing conscious patients with the urologist tho

 

[Scrizzy]

Wouldn't u have more exposure seeing conscious patients with the urologist tho

Good question. So the anesthesiologist helps with pain during and after a procedure. So I will be seeing conscious patients. In fact, I'm pretty sure the majority of patients will be conscious when I meet them. They also mention I will be meeting psychiatric patients as well.

 

[Cornfed101]

It's a little tough to answer because it can vary a lot between different hospitals/settings. I shadowed an anesthesiologist and a urologist and really either would be informative. Are there a lot of CRNAs working under your anesthesiologist? That was the case where I was and we just went from procedure to procedure (mostly conscious) doing nerve blocks, epidurals, and helping the CRNAs with difficult intubations. It was legit, and you learn a lot of varying anatomy. Urology is obviously more focused in anatomy. I think the main question is: which one interests you more?

 

[Scrizzy]

It's a little tough to answer because it can vary a lot between different hospitals/settings. I shadowed an anesthesiologist and a urologist and really either would be informative. Are there a lot of CRNAs working under your anesthesiologist? That was the case where I was and we just went from procedure to procedure (mostly conscious) doing nerve blocks, epidurals, and helping the CRNAs with difficult intubations. It was legit, and you learn a lot of varying anatomy. Urology is obviously more focused in anatomy. I think the main question is: which one interests you more?

I want to do the one with more procedures, so I am guessing anesthesiology?
As for the hospital setting, the anesthesiologist is part of a ASC. While the urologist is in a small clinic that is rented in a bank.

 

[Cornfed101]

I want to do the one with more procedures, so I am guessing anesthesiology?
As for the hospital setting, the anesthesiologist is part of a ASC. While the urologist is in a small clinic that is rented in a bank.

I think it depends on the specific ASC. Ask what a typical day is like for each of them.

 

[907914]

Having worked in a urologists office and shadowed many of them, I can say that it is Dope AF if you get to be in for the procedures/surgeries and the like. Mostly cystocystoscopies and BCGs, but Vasectomies and prostectomies are tight.

From a scribing perspective though, particularly if you will be involved in the “pain” and care realm with them, I would do Gas.

 

[bluepeony]

I want to do the one with more procedures, so I am guessing anesthesiology?
As for the hospital setting, the anesthesiologist is part of a ASC. While the urologist is in a small clinic that is rented in a bank.

U have ur answer then