Scribe Life

At EPPA, we know when we meet a great potential medical scribe. They usually have a culmination of the following traits as well as the intent to pursue professional school. It can be difficult to […]

Are you considering working as a medical scribe? Becoming a medical scribe is a unique and valuable experience, especially for students pursuing a future career in medicine. There is a lot of information that outlines Medical […]

For people interested in careers in medicine, specifically nurse practitioners (NPs) or physician assistants (PAs) hopefuls, acquiring healthcare experience is a vital part of the graduate school application. Healthcare experience is mandatory to be admitted […]

When you begin working as a medical scribe, it can be rather intimidating. You are entering a clinical environment where you are unsure of what you will see or how you will react. A common fear […]

While many EPPA Scribe locations are hospital Emergency Departments (ED), we also provide scribing services for specialty clinics like the TRIA Orthopedic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. EPPA starts all scribes in an ED to gain a wide range of […]

For college students, summer break is a precious time. A summer break gives students some much-needed time away from their studies. It also provides them with a few months to pick up a job and […]

Becoming a medical scribe is a unique and valuable experience, especially for students considering a future in medicine. If you’re interested in pursuing a career in medicine health care field, or if you’re simply interested in becoming […]

Day in the Life  “As a full-time scribe I can be found in the ED at any time on any day, but a normal weekday morning shift always begins with coffee (if I’m with the […]

I was asked to write about a “typical day in the life of a scribe.” While reflecting about this, I came to a pretty cool realization: there is no typical day in the life of […]

EPPA Scribes attend monthly education sessions.  We cover clinical topics which continue expand our scribe’s understanding of medicine after their initial training.  Past topics have included; ‘evaluating abdominal pain in the acute care setting,’ ‘psychosocial […]

What would you say you do here? …During a mundane graveyard shift, our team was rushed back into a stabilization room to find blood-drenched paramedics and a patient with penetrating neck trauma that visually exposed […]

04: 30: alarm goes off. (snooze) 04:35 (snooze) 04:40 (snooze, yet again). 04:50 only 20 minutes until I have be out the door… (snooze). 05:00 okay, I’m up…I’m up. I get out of bed and […]