Scribe and volunteering?

[Turkishking]

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I've recently been offered a job through PhysAssist Scribes. I also start volunteering at the hospital soon. Should I do both?

Would being a scribe count as shadowing too?

Would it be pointless to do both??

 

[clippers50fan]

1. Yes? More varied experiences... If you have the time, of course.
2. Scribing is not shadowing. It's a job.
3. No? why would doing more be pointless.

 

[Hospitalized]

lmao at that humblebrag

 

[Green_Goose]

If you have the time, I think you should do both.

 

[Turkishking]

lmao at that humblebrag

It's not humble brag.. I'm asking would it be pointless to do both. That's all.

 

[LizzyM]

Scribing puts you in one venue with one physician. If it is emergency services, then you do get a good idea of what an emergency medicine doc does all day and the environment and it wouldn't make sense to shadow one in addition but keep in mind that outpatient clinical settings and surgical inpatient, medical inpatient, etc, etc also exist and it couldn't hurt to arrange to shadow docs who shuttle between outpatient & OR or outpatient and L&D, etc.

 

[FutureFloridaDr]

Scribing puts you in one venue with one physician. If it is emergency services, then you do get a good idea of what an emergency medicine doc does all day and the environment and it wouldn't make sense to shadow one in addition but keep in mind that outpatient clinical settings and surgical inpatient, medical inpatient, etc, etc also exist and it couldn't hurt to arrange to shadow docs who shuttle between outpatient & OR or outpatient and L&D, etc.

Is this the famous LizzyM where everyone says "LizzyM 70" or "LizzyM 60 something"?

 

[Turkishking]

Is this the famous LizzyM where everyone says "LizzyM 70" or "LizzyM 60 something"?

👍

 

[Turkishking]

Weren't you supposed to get off SDN and have a life yet?

 

[hopefulERdoc251]

Go for the scribing. You get patient contact, plus $. You can pick up volunteering once you're able to manage everything else better.

 

[oOKawaiiOo]

I'm doing both, scribing, volunteering, and tutoring.

but I get wasted every friday/saturday night to keep my life at balance before matriculation.

 

[KungFuPanda123]

If money is not an issue, volunteer. It gives you good contact with patients (assuming you're not front-desk or filing papers) and more flexible hours than scribing. Scribing through an agency has terrible benefits, bad hours, and crappy support. Now, if you do need to be earning your own money, go scribing; it gives you great clinical experience as well as pays the bill (albeit not in the most ideal way).

Don't do both. Just do one or the other and then shadow some physicians on the side (outside of the ER if you are choosing to scribe and maybe outside of the hospital if you choose to volunteer).