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Becoming a medical scribe... - missmarymac

Posted: Jun 06, 2014

Has anyone considered becoming a medical scribe, currently a medical scribe or know of someone who is? Pay scale? I'm thinking of turning my career in that direction and gathering as much information as I can. Thanks!

I asked my primary care one day about his - scribe and asked about wages paid

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And I was told $7.00 an hour. Good luck with that.

Your kidding! Thought it was low but not that much... - missmarymac

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but thanks.

It IS low. But usually they hire medical - students, who are there anyway, -sm

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need the in-office "experience", and will work for next to nothing. I really wouldn't want that job, and the stress that would go along with it, for $20+ an hour. Also, something tells me that's just sort of a "band-aid" job: one that's filling in a current need, due to the changes in how medical reports are being produced. As soon as they find an easier solution to that, my money says that job will be eliminated.

They hire pre-med college students, - NOT "medical students,"

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Medical students go to school and study full time plus; they do not work in addition to that. They do not have time during clinical rotations to scribe.

The scribes are college students who are not "there already", but who will work for peanuts in order to get experience in clinical medicine and ... most importantly ... a recommendation for medical school.

College students do this to get INTO medical school.

MTs, of all people, should understand how US medical care and the medical training system work. When they do not know the difference between a premed student and a medical student, or what they do, it shows such a lack of knowledge that it is no surprise that doctors chose not to use MTs as scribes.

Gee - just what I needed. I written reprimand. - Med student, pre-med, who cares?

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MTs are supposed to value accuracy, or is that - only for spelling?

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NM

Yes, but this is MTStars site. This is not work-related - Should not be QAd here

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Not the poster that you replied to, but cheese-o-pete. I don't come to this board to read posters QA'ing other posters.

Vastly different. Anyone can claim to be "pre-med." nm - ..

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Had pathophys, microbiology, chem - In BSN program, so...

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Those didn't make me a "pre-med" student.

Right. My HIM degree included those classes but I was not - pre-med or med student

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There's no qualifier for someone to declare themselves 'pre-med.' But a med student is already in medical school and therefore has a far greater education than, say, a sophomore who simply wrote pre-med on their registration form.
When I was in college, pre-med was not even an actual major, it was an intent. You still had to major in bio or chem or nursing or something similar.

Very unethical for your doctor to be sharing a direct - dollar amount of another

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Employee's pay. He should not be discussing other people's pay with his patients.

To say they don't make much is one thing, but to give an exact dollar amount is another.

Not unethical in the least to state an hourly - wage that a position pays.

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Criminy.

If you don't see a problem with the doc or anyone - employee giving that type of

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Information to a patient, then you have been working at home far too long and need to get out more. That's common knowledge.

It's always been a rule of thumb to never discuss pay with coworkers, let alone patients, customers or clients and especially specific dollar amounts.

You can tell who you want outside the job, but not at work.

Keeping wages a secret is a tool for keeping them - LOW.

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I think if he is the boss and wage payer, and someone is asking for or about a job - it is not unethical at all.

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it was a private conversation between he and a potential employee. So?

Perhaps posting it on a blab board is unethical, think about it. Good thing the doctor's name was not used.

Read the post again. I did not say the physician - told me, why assume

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the scribe herself told me.

There is one person who is the ethics police here. - punchy

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No matter what anyone says, thinks, suggests, or poses, this person is here to tell us how unethical we are. We have sinned in our thoughts and hearts! Repent to the great almighty god AHMDI! All hail!

Makes me question HER ethics. Especially - since theyre usually wrong.

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I'm an atheist. N/M - anon

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So am I! - punchy

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:-)

Why? If you are a state or federal employee, - L&L

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your wages are a matter of public record. What's the big deal about keeping wages secret, unless there is something you need to hide. I just don't get it, and I certainly do not think it is unethical. I has absolutely nothing to do with ethics.

Scribe FAQ with link - cluny

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I ended up in the ER a couple years ago and the MD had a scribe. Asked the nurse and she told me this particular scribe was a medical student.

Anyway, check out #6 in the link. States that oftentimes medical students serve as scribes.

http://www.acep.org/Legislation-and-Advocacy/Practice-Management-Issues/Physician-Payment-Reform/Scribe-FAQ/

My personal scribe hiring experience ... - s/m

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I was actually hired by a major scribe company a couple of months ago (but before training began, I had to back out of the job because of personal reasons). I'm an MT of 19 years. Pay upon hire was $10.00 an hour being a hospitalist scribe. This was in Illinois.

You can google average salaries of any position. - NM

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