Also, the system to receive raises was poor, and it would take excessive amounts of time to recieve any raises (even if you did an excellent job charting, most of it is based on picking up shifts and other random opportunities). There were many bad parts unfortunately.The pay was not good for the amount of work scribes do, and there was no pay differential for working night shift. I gained considerable amount of experience here that helped me move forward with my desired career in medicine. The good part of working here was the clinical experiences, opportunity to meet many physicians, and many wonderful other scribes. If you’re in college for medical fields it’s a great job so please apply if that’s what your after but if you aren’t planning on going to college for medical this isn’t the place for you. Some of the trainers do things very differently from each other so it’s easy to get confused and make mistakes at first, trust your doctor and document what they tell you too. They will also write you up for a call off even if it’s an emergency. You do not get sick time or PTO at all, if you call off and have not gotten your shift covered you are docked points towards your promotion which takes 1000 hours of work just to get, and they only schedule you 16 hours a week. This job is a LOT of work and you have to be perfect as this is a billable medical chart you can not make mistakes. Scribes are doing the charting for the physician and they are payed barely above minimum wage, you will make more money at McDonald’s. This was a great environment to work in for someone wanting to advance into the medical field but you can NOT live off this income.
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