Which box gets checked?

[MyOdyssey]

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Low paid work (not strictly volunteer work) to an underserved community (e.g. scribe for ADHD students, ESL instructor). This isn't clinical work. It's also not nonclinical volunteering (because there's a low hourly rate being paid). So how do ad coms regard this?

Here's a different scenario:

Medical scribing: This seems like shadowing except as a much more rewarding learning experience. On another thread, several posters suggested that scribing be treated as clinical experience and that additional "shadowing" had to be pursued to check that box.

So, which box gets checked?

 

[candbgirl]

Paid employment? Medical scribing is totally different. This is educational scribing/ assistance- student assistant. It’s a very low paying job.

 

[MyOdyssey]

Paid employment? Medical scribing is totally different. This is educational scribing/ assistant.

If do medical scribing, do I still need to do "shadowing" as medical scribing seems like turbocharged shadowing and should be a substitute for "shadowing"?

 

[candbgirl]

If do medical scribing, do I still need to do "shadowing" as medical scribing seems like turbocharged shadowing and should be a substitute for "shadowing"?

What you are doing isn’t medical scribing. If you are planning to sign on for medical scribing, I’m probably not a good person to ask. I think scribing is fine and there is a need for docs to have scribes but the scribes don't interact much(if at all) with patients. In fact sometimes scribes are specifically told not to interact with the patients. And yes, I do think you need other shadowing. You’d be technically double dipping to scribe/shadow at the same time. Shadowing is considered passive experience. You watch and learn.

 

[MyOdyssey]

What you are doing isn’t medical scribing. If you are planning to sign on for medical scribing, I’m probably not a good person to ask. I think scribing is fine and there is a need for docs to have scribes but the scribes don't interact much(if at all) with patients. In fact sometimes scribes are specifically told not to interact with the patients. And yes, I do think you need other shadowing. You’d be technically double dipping to scribe/shadow at the same time. Shadowing is considered passive experience. You watch and learn.

Why value does shadowing add for someone who's done scribing?

 

[Cornfed101]

Why value does shadowing add for someone who's done scribing?

You usually only scribe for a specific specialty, but I shadowed 7 different subspecialties. That added value for me.

 

[Goro]

If do medical scribing, do I still need to do "shadowing" as medical scribing seems like turbocharged shadowing and should be a substitute for "shadowing"?

Nope. Scribing is glorified shadowing. Employment is always a good thing.