Medical Office Professions - Medical Scribe - Advanced Certificate

Program Code: CBA.35287

The efficiency of a medical office and the quality of medical care provided depend in large part upon the staff members who supplement and support the role of the physician. As a medical office staff member, you must have strong communication skills, organizational ability, computer knowledge, and excellent human relations skills.

A medical scribe's primary duties are to follow a physician through the work day and chart patient encounters in real-time using an electronic medical record (EMR) and existing templates. Medical scribes also generate referral letters for physicians, manage and sort medical documents within the EMR system, and assist with e-prescribing. Medical scribes can be thought of as data care managers, enabling physicians, medical assistants, and nurses to focus on patient in-take and care during clinic hours. Medical scribes-by handling data management  tasks for physicians in real-time-free the physician to increase patient contact time, give more thought to complex cases, better manage patient flow through the department, and increase productivity.

This certificate has a common core of classes that is also required for the Medical Administrative Assistant Associate in Business Studies Degree. Those core classes include BIO 101W , HSC 105 , HSC 205W , HSC 210 , OAT 105W  and OAT 151 .