Find Jobs
Find Jobs Near You – Available Work in Your Location
Skip to job details
TM
Tufts Medicine
Medical Scribe
Career Insights for Medical Transcriptionist
See where this job fits in the broader career landscape. Knowing your career path helps you see what's possible from here.
Scorecard
Based on Massachusetts data
Review key factors to help you decide if this role fits your goals. How is this calculated?
What they do
A Medical Transcriptionist listens to sound recordings made by physicians and other healthcare professionals, transcribes the recordings and creates written reports and documents from them. Uses medical terminology and abbreviations and operates recording equipment and software. Works in hospitals or medical offices, or for companies that provide transcription services to healthcare facilities.
$45,473 / year median in Massachusetts
+1% projected growth
Job Description
Jobs › Boston, MA › Medical Scribe Tufts Medicine Medical Scribe Boston, MA Apply Job Profile Summary This role focuses on providing administrative and business support to the organization in order to achieve operational goals. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following General Administration duties: Produces documents, collects, records, sorts and files information, handles mail, prepares routine reports, makes travel arrangements, arranges appointments, responds to inquiries, data entry, and operates office equipment. An organizational related support or service (administrative or clerical) role or a role that focuses on support of daily business activities (e.g., technical, clinical, non-clinical) operating in a "hands on" environment. The majority of time is spent in the delivery of support services or activities, typically under supervision. An experienced level role that requires basic knowledge of job procedures and tools obtained through work experience and may require vocational or technical education. Works under moderate supervision, problems are typically of a routine nature, but may at times require interpretation or deviation from standard procedures, and communicates information that requires some explanation or interpretation. Job Overview At the direction of a physician or licensed independent practitioner, the duties of the position are to document the physician dictated patient history, review of systems, medications and allergies, physical examination, family, social and past medical history as well as to document procedures, lab results, dictated radiographic impressions made by the supervising physician and other information pertaining to the patient's encounter in the outpatient clinic. The encounters are documented in real-time which allows the provider to spend more time with the patient while ensuring the documentation is accurate. Scribes are not patient care providers and thus provide assistance with all clerical activities related to the physician's practice. This assistance is under the direct oversight of the physician, where the physician will review and approve actions to be taken at key junctures during patient care. The final job description and roles to be assumed by the scribe will be tailored as needed. The intention is to minimize the physician's clerical functions while maximizing his/her clinical role, thus improving patient flow and satisfaction. Scribes can also assist the provider in navigating the EMR and locating information such as test and lab results. They can support workflow and documentation for medical record coding.