Can anyone please explain what scutwork is?
What Is Scutwork?
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scut work 👎: a medical term used to denote work done by a medical student, intern, or junior resident that is considered of little or no educational value (eg drawing blood on difficult sticks, calling the lab, providing patient transport to radiology, fetching old medical records, filling out paper work). these activities are typically time consuming, monotonous, and detract from a students/resident's true purpose in a teaching hospital. oftentimes, this work could be completed by support staff (phelebotomists, nurse's aides, nurses, physician assistants, technicians, high school drop outs, well trained pet animals) if they were made available by the hospital.
