Scribe Question

[xwang]

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I recently started to scribe for a nephrologist. I got this job because the doctor knows that I wish to attend medical school and is a very nice person and she also is looking for someone to help her to lessen her workload (and she knows my mom a bit from work), and she offered me the position. Problem is I never went through a scribe training, and from my understanding most medical scribes go through a training with a scribe company before working.

Can someone recommend some material (books, videos, etc.) I can self study to help me become a scribe? For those of you trained as a scribe, what are some of the things scribe trainings go over?

I found this book online <http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Medi...id=1403047129&sr=8-1&keywords=medical+scribe>. Does anyone out there know of this book? Is it a good book to purchase?

Thank you

 

[BrCo]

Read up on HIPAA. Also, most scribes work in the ED, so your work may be a bit different. Find out what computer system they use (ie: CERNER, etc) and learn that.

 

[enrvged]

I've recently acquired the job as a scribe and believed the training was very extensive and rightfully so. My company, EMSS, conducted training in two ways: an online module and a classroom training environment.

The online module consisted of an endless amount of medical terminology, rules and regulations (HIPAA and other codes of conduct) within the workplace and company, and what an adequate patient's chart would require. The first and last is probably all you need to know prior to being on the job in my opinion. This is because you need to know what the chart requires as that is how the physician bills patients.

Classroom training exposed the newly hired scribes to the electronic medical records system that our providers would be using to chart. This is what we type on to document patient profiles and do all pertinent scribing tasks. This is so we became familiar with the program prior to shadowing with a scribe-physician on a real time shift.

I believe both elements of the training were critical to the job and anyone coming in without proper training would struggle tremendously.

 

[LabDoc33]

You're certainly in for a harsh learning curve. Especially if you lack medical background jobs in the past. I just finished my scribe training, but I was lucky since I also work in a hospital medical diagnostic lab so the terminology was easy, just the computer systems are annoying/hard at times.

You'll struggle at first, but don't worry you'll get there my friend.

Here is for medical terminology, completely free.

http://www.dmu.edu/medterms/

 

[mehc012]

Honestly, the training was, imo, basically meaningless. It required no real studying and didn't really help me to scribe. The only thing that made me a better scribe was DOING it, so...do that.
The only useful part I took away was practice HPIs. Google for any mock patient interviews and practice turning those into HPIs.
And definitely familiarize yourself with the computer systems...that can make or break you.

 

[Vaseline]

i started a scribe position recently in a private practice without any prior training or exposure to medical terminology. don't worry, you will be fine. you will pick it up as you go, and if the physician is aware about your lack of training, he/she will most likely accommodate you accordingly

i just started my second week this past Monday and I can't believe how much i have already learned-- sometimes a complete immersion is better than dry-run training. the doc i work with gave my a clinical atlas to read about any diseases/ conditions we encounter.

 

[sunflower18]

My biggest advice: learn to type fast, and to be able to type a conversation in realtime. I asked my friends to read part of a book out loud, or to talk amongst each other, while I typed the conversation. It's a strange skill, being able to listen to someone speaking, store their words in your head, and then replicate them while the person is speaking other words (because in all likelihood, you won't be typing each word exactly as it is said). I think people get overwhelmed when scribing due to their inability to keep up with how much and how fast they have to type. So practice that, and everything else should feel less terrifying/overwhelming!