Implementation of Scribes in an Academic Emergency Department: The Resident Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical scribes have been shown to improve emergency department (ED) throughput, physician productivity metrics, and patient satisfaction by fulfilling primary documentation and nonclinical functions. Little research has been done to date to study the effect of implementing a scribe program in a residency setting.

Objective

Our goal was to investigate emergency medicine residents' perception of their educational experience, including interactions with faculty, before and after the implementation of an ED scribe program.

Methods

We used a pre-post design to assess residents' perceptions of their educational experience before and after implementation of the scribe program. Residents at a large, urban academic medical center with an Accreditation Council for G

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC5559251 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature