Title: Lecture Materials: (CU1 M5) What is a Scribe?
Course: SkillsCom CMA 111 16.0 > Section: Credit Unit 1 Module 5

- SCRIBE PRESENTATION
- SCRIBE VIDEO EXAMPLE

A Medical Scribe is a new concept in modern medicine that has come about because of the advent of the Electronic Health Record (EHR).  Traditionally, a physician's job has been focusing solely on direct patient contact and care, but now with EHR, physicians often feel a huge burden from an overload of required documentation and clerical responsibilities that slows physicians down and pulls them away from actual patient care. To relieve the documentation overload, physicians across the country are turning to a scribe service.

Please review the following instructor created content. It can be viewed as either a Prezi presentation (audio can be turned off or on) or as a PowerPoint presentation: What is a Scribe? (PPT).

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In this video example, the physician introduces the scribe and then proceeds to get a history from the patient. The scribe is ignored as she takes down the interaction that is occurring between the physician and the patient. It will be the scribes job to then enter the information from that interactions into the electronic health record.

A transcript of this video is available: Chest Pain. (YouTube)