This is why - sm Posted: Oct 15th, 2015 - 2:57 pm In Reply to: Scribes vs MTs - JustAnMT
Scribes are the solution to the data overload and data entry requirements of EHRs. They do not type dictated material like you do, but retrieve electronic information, communicate it to the physician, monitor the patient encounter for critical information, and enter that information electronically. This is usually done in real time, without a recording, so there is pressure for accuracy and performance.
"Pre-professional" in this context does not mean "nearly professional." It means they are often 4-year college students, i.e., pre-professional SCHOOL students who are considering applying to professional schools like medical school.
"Keyboardist" does not mean transcriptionist. It was not a slur on you. It refers to the excessive amount of time physicians end up spending on keyboards attached to EHRs.
EHRs changed the way information is delivered and used in medicine. With paper charts, everything that was available was there and treatments were prescribed with a prescription pad. Now, you may have to root around in software from the lab, from the pharmacy, and from other providers, in addition to your own office. You have to enter information in text boxes, click endlessly, check off choices that generate more choices, and enter documentation using mandatory formats. Even prescriptions and treatments are entered through online order entry systems. With some systems, this is incredibly disruptive to patient care.
Scribes are an attempt to cope with that disruption. MTs would have been good choices for this, but most physicians no longer know you exist. Most of you went home to work years ago. Out of sight, out of mind.
I do not know where you get the idea that scribes have less education. Many who work for scribe companies now have far more than MTs just to get into a scribe training program. Many employers are now looking for scribes who have more education. That is why they are using college students who have taken chemistry, biochemistry, physics, higher math, genetics, anatomy, physiology, and other subjects, and have done so at universities. If MTs have that, nobody knows.
Scribes are not taking away your jobs. The EHR took away your jobs.
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