Pros
- Hands on clinical exposure and experience - Amazing networking opportunity/ allows pre-meds to build life long connections with physicians and clinical staff - Learn more about clinical medicine and it's practices - Get recommendations from physicians when applying to medical school.
Cons
- ScribeAmerica management is in charge of raises and wages as they are contracted by hospitals/physicians therefore, management does not see how much work scribes are actually doing. - Quarterly evaluations that physicians fill out and send back to administration are not used to give raises. Scribe America management will hand out $5 coffee gift cards for good performance reviews instead of merit based raises. - Physicians and scribes tend to build a relationship allowing clinics to run efficiently and management will intervene and move scribes around without the approval of the scribe or the physician. - Scribes are rarely offered any benefits and pay starts at minimum wage despite most scribes being college graduates and competitive job interviews and hiring process. - Management did not listen to chief scribes and our suggestions when hiring scribes and during the training process. For some specialities within medicine, it is a waste of time to teach them general ED/medicine knowledge. It is more helpful to streamline the process and teach them exactly what their specialty clinic will be covering and using.