Managing scribing and school

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Hi everyone. I am a rising sophomore currently on the pre-med track. I recently got a scribing job at a local family medicine clinic in my area. I start next week and have to work 20-24 hours a week, with weekends and Tuesdays off. I work from 8 am to 3:30 pm. To anyone who has done something like this in the past, is it difficult to manage a college level course work and scribe at the same time. It is a given that any scribing job will take up this much time, but I want to hear from others who have done this in the past.

How did you guys manage to do both? How long would you recommend that I take up this job? (I was thinking doing this job for around a year) I am usually on top of my game in regards to doing my work on time, and am good at balancing everything, but I just want to hear what other people have done. This is also during COVID time so I don't really have the pressure of maintaining a perfect social life as nothing really is going on. I am very excited to take on this job and gain a lot of clinical exposure, but I also am a bit worried that it will be too much.

All my volunteering, research, shadowing etc, got cancelled and this is all I have pretty much. My university went online for Fall 2020, so all my classes are self-paced. Im taking a lot of gen end classes such as SOCY and STATS, and my online hardest class is really orgo, but everything else is pretty easy.

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I was able to scribe MWF 8-5 ish in outpatient during my senior year. This only worked because I stacked all of my classes on Tuesday and Thursday. It was pretty doable, I had time to do school work, see friends, go out on weekends, etc. However, I had a pretty lush class schedule senior year. If I had to scribe while I was taking physics, biochem, ochem, etc then I would have not had a good time.
 
Hi everyone. I am a rising sophomore currently on the pre-med track. I recently got a scribing job at a local family medicine clinic in my area. I start next week and have to work 20-24 hours a week, with weekends and Tuesdays off. I work from 8 am to 3:30 pm. To anyone who has done something like this in the past, is it difficult to manage a college level course work and scribe at the same time. It is a given that any scribing job will take up this much time, but I want to hear from others who have done this in the past.

How did you guys manage to do both? How long would you recommend that I take up this job? (I was thinking doing this job for around a year) I am usually on top of my game in regards to doing my work on time, and am good at balancing everything, but I just want to hear what other people have done. This is also during COVID time so I don't really have the pressure of maintaining a perfect social life as nothing really is going on. I am very excited to take on this job and gain a lot of clinical exposure, but I also am a bit worried that it will be too much.

All my volunteering, research, shadowing etc, got cancelled and this is all I have pretty much.
How can you do this? Do you not have any classes between 8 am and 3:30 pm on MWThF? In any event, working 24 hours per week while a full time pre-med sounds like asking for trouble. I haven't done that, and, quite frankly, would never consider it, mostly because I need to go to class and labs during the day during the week.
 
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How can you do this? Do you not have any classes between 8 am and 3:30 pm on MWThF? In any event, working 24 hours per week while a full time pre-med sounds like asking for trouble. I haven't done that, and, quite frankly, would never consider it, mostly because I need to go to class and labs during the day during the week.
Because of COVID, all of my classes were changed to an online format and became all self-paced. I don't have Zoom classes to attend, but have to watch pre-recorded lectures on my own time. My labs are online as well and all self-paced. Two of my classes don't have specific deadlines and I can finish them up as soon as possible, meaning that if I work diligently for a month, I can finish the entire course up. I hope that makes sense.
 
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Because of COVID, all of my classes were changed to an online format and became all self-paced. I don't have Zoom classes to attend, but have to watch pre-recorded lectures on my own time. My labs are online as well and all self-paced. Two of my classes don't have specific deadlines and I can finish them up as soon as possible, meaning that if I work diligently for a month, I can finish the entire course up. I hope that makes sense.

Wouldn’t you still have a heavy workload considering exams/homework will still be given? Also what about the other classes, you say only two don’t have specific deadlines. Seems like you have a unique situation, and if you think it’s a good idea where you won’t be compromising your grades, then go for it
 
Hi everyone. I am a rising sophomore currently on the pre-med track. I recently got a scribing job at a local family medicine clinic in my area. I start next week and have to work 20-24 hours a week, with weekends and Tuesdays off. I work from 8 am to 3:30 pm. To anyone who has done something like this in the past, is it difficult to manage a college level course work and scribe at the same time. It is a given that any scribing job will take up this much time, but I want to hear from others who have done this in the past.

How did you guys manage to do both? How long would you recommend that I take up this job? (I was thinking doing this job for around a year) I am usually on top of my game in regards to doing my work on time, and am good at balancing everything, but I just want to hear what other people have done. This is also during COVID time so I don't really have the pressure of maintaining a perfect social life as nothing really is going on. I am very excited to take on this job and gain a lot of clinical exposure, but I also am a bit worried that it will be too much.

All my volunteering, research, shadowing etc, got cancelled and this is all I have pretty much. My university went online for Fall 2020, so all my classes are self-paced. Im taking a lot of gen end classes such as SOCY and STATS, and my online hardest class is really orgo, but everything else is pretty easy.
I scribed approximately this many hours while doing a post-bac and found it to be too many work hours, but I was also had long commutes to everything and on-campus classes. I think it's doable if you know you're someone who can manage their time well. Personally, I'd take the opportunity to get any clinical experience I could now, particularly while you're taking a less-intense course load. A year sounds like a good amount of time with this many hours/week, and you'll likely want something more part-time when you start getting into harder courses. As you start, keep in mind that scribing has a steep learning curve and it gets easier the more you do it! Good luck :)
 
I worked ~56 hrs a week last semester and got a 4.0 with 18 credit hours. It's all about time management and course rigor in my opinion.
 
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