Had falling out with physician and quit scribe job during Covid19 pandemic. Should I include scribe job in activities?

[deleted1049356]

After graduating from uni I worked as a medical scribe in the ED. I started training in June 2019 and worked for a full year until February 2020. I really enjoyed the position, as I was able to learn a lot about working in a busy clinic as well as developing my interpersonal skills when interacting with patients. I also really enjoyed seeing the diverse cases on a daily basis. When I first started, my boss and I had a really good working relationship. Around January 2020, my boss noticed that I failed to document something during a visit and our relationship turned really sour after that. It came to the point where my boss started to state that I do not deserve to be a medical student and that if I put my scribe position down in my AMCAS activities list he will give any schools that contact him a negative review of me even if they just want to verify hours. Should I still put my scribe position down on my AMCAS? I felt like I had a genuine experience working with the patients that I saw and I would like to talk about it, but I also do not want a negative statement from a physician. I am also only asking because I did not have any other manager that oversaw my work to list as a verifier.

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[stickgirl390]

You can list scribe without ever saying where you were a scribe at. That information is not mandatory.

 

[deleted804295]

When it asks you to list a contact you can list HR or the department leader's number.

So sorry you experienced this

 

[Blueprint Med School]

After graduating from uni I worked as a medical scribe in the ED. I started training in June 2019 and worked for a full year until February 2020. I really enjoyed the position, as I was able to learn a lot about working in a busy clinic as well as developing my interpersonal skills when interacting with patients. I also really enjoyed seeing the diverse cases on a daily basis. When I first started, my boss and I had a really good working relationship. Around January 2020, my boss noticed that I failed to document something during a visit and our relationship turned really sour after that. It came to the point where my boss started to state that I do not deserve to be a medical student and that if I put my scribe position down in my AMCAS activities list he will give any schools that contact him a negative review of me even if they just want to verify hours. Should I still put my scribe position down on my AMCAS? I felt like I had a genuine experience working with the patients that I saw and I would like to talk about it, but I also do not want a negative statement from a physician. I am also only asking because I did not have any other manager that oversaw my work to list as a verifier.

Yikes! Sorry, you had to go through that. Unless you have sufficient clinical experiences otherwise, you should probably list it. Like said above, list a higher-up manager as the point of contact and when asked about it, try to generally talk about what you got out of the experience. If asked about a time you dealt with conflict, you can talk about the experience except that I would try and avoid specifics. Try not to let your interviewer put the pieces together and make it about the way you changed course and learned from the experience.

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