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The reasoning for why you were let go does not matter. 100 hours is significant and should be on there. Just put HR as the contact and call it good from there. They will only ask about hours worked not why you left.
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I disagree. If an interviewer sees that someone held a scribing job for only 2 months they’re likely to question why, especially given the fact that scribing jobs have extremely high attrition rates (both due to quitting and firing).
As for whether or not 100 hours is enough, I’m not really sure. Because in comparison to other candidates with clinical employment who have several hundred hours, it stands out in a bad way.
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I agree with Clam and am of the mind that you probably should not list this experience on your application, especially considering that it's an insignificant amount of time compared to the hours most scribes will have worked before applying to medical school.
I think this can really only hurt you and the benefit of 100 hours of scribing on your application does not outweigh the risk of listing an activity where you were fired in a month for a patient-information-related reason.
EDIT: I actually only read part of Clam's post before writing that. The fact that we said the exact same thing should be fairly telling as to why you should just let this activity go.
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How many other hours of active clinical experience have you accumulated aside from the 100 scribing hours?
I disagree with the previous 2 posts. 100 hours of clinical is 100 hours of clinical. Future med school applicants leave jobs/volunteer positions earlier than they would have liked for a variety of reasons. I don’t think ad coms are going to wonder “why only 100 hours?” And I feel like if they do get that deep then you’re already an attractive applicant to them. Just don’t describe the circumstances of why you left in your primary and say that you learned x y z from the experience. For the record I wouldn’t provide documentation on the death of a loved one...the hell with that boss
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If this is Scribe America then half those hours are from training alone. So no, I wouldn’t consider those significant. Of course, others may feel differently.
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I love how people here have started shortening my name to Clam. Makes me feel popular and special 😀
Hate to disagree with the claminator but I have to on this one. Why cut 100 hours of clinical experience you rightfully accrued jut because you left the job earlier than expected? I’m not saying it has to be one of your meaningful experiences or anything like that. We premeds don’t know exactly how the committee process works. But if I had to bet I’d say benefit of an extra 100 hours of clinical outweighs the danger of adcoms wondering and red-flagging why you only scribed for 100 hours. To be clear, I think clam and co are giving sound advice, I judt don’t agree with it
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I would normally agree. But I worked in a scribing company for a while and two of my ex girlfriends were chief scribes. Let me just say that the fire and quit rate of new scribes is extremely high (nearly half), because many of them are either not able to do the job or can’t handle the stress. So when someone has a low amount of hours as a scribe then an interviewer may very well 1) jump to the conclusion that the person got fired or quit because they couldn’t handle it or 2) the interviewer will give the person a chance to explain. Neither or these are good for OP.
I agree earlier about the fact that committees don’t look too deep unless they are interested. But if OP catches the interest of a committee (which is essential for getting an interview) then the 100 scribing hours might stick out.
^^^^All good points. OP, if your current clinical experiences add up to around 600+ hours then I suppose the marginal gain of an extra 100 becomes less and less significant. But if you have, say, 250 hours, I just don’t see how you can leave out these 100.
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If you have a lot of clinical experience, don't put it. If you only have 100-200 hours, definitely put the scribing in your app. If they ask you about it in an interview... just be honest about what happened.
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Did you get interviews this current cycle?
Also, 600 hours across 6 weeks is 100 hours per week. Are you sure that’s correct? Did you mean to say 16 weeks? Even residents don’t work 100 hours per week. Unless you’re a vascular surgery resident like @mimelim
Also OP, I realized no one answered your original question about how it will look for the 100 scribing hours to disappear. Unfortunately, I have no idea how the re-applied to schools will view it.
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Ok now I'm confused. Earlier you said that a lot of schools saw your app. But now you're saying you only applied to one school where you applied late. Am I missing something 😵
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