Medical Scribe - Oncology, Highlands Ranch
The medical scribe is responsible for the transcription of provider services, along with accurate and complete record keeping in the patient's medical record for each patient receiving services in the clinic. The medical scribe works to facilitate patient flow and ensures seamless delivery of care for each patient.
Key responsibilities include:
- Preparing and assembling medical record documentation, results, and charts for the provider.
- Accompanying the provider into the patient examination room to accurately transcribe patient history and physical exam, procedures and treatments performed by healthcare professionals, pending orders, patient education and explanation of risks and benefits.
- Accurately documenting the physician's encounter with the patient and others present.
- Ensuring all symptoms, proper diagnoses, prescriptions, and instructions for self-care and follow-up are documented in the medical record as dictated by the provider.
- Transcribing patient orders, including laboratory tests, radiology tests, medications, etc.
- Preparing and/or coordinating referrals as directed by the provider.
Work location: Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Highlands Ranch, CO.
Why join us? Community practice medicine, housed within the school of medicine at the university of colorado, is seeking trained medical professionals to join our growing team. With clinics spanning from longmont to castle rock, we offer a wide variety of opportunities. Specialty areas include but are not limited to; orthopedics, vascular surgery, obgyn, internal medicine, urology, psychiatry, and many more! The university of colorado anschutz medical campus is a public education, clinical and research facility serving 4,500 students, and a world-class medical destination at the forefront of life-changing science, medicine, and healthcare.
The university of colorado offers an excellent benefits package, including:
- Medical: multiple plan options
- Dental: multiple plan options
- Additional insurance: disability, life, vision
- Retirement 401(a) plan: employer contributes 10% of your gross pay
- Paid time off: accruals over the year
- Vacation days: 22/year (maximum accrual 352 hours)
- Sick days: 15/year (unlimited maximum accrual)
- Holiday days: 15/year
- Tuition benefit: employees have access to this benefit on all cu campuses
- Eco pass: reduced-rate rtd bus and light rail service
Qualifications:
Minimum qualifications:
- High school diploma or ged.
- One (1) year of experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position.
- Substitution: a combination of education and related technical/paraprofessional experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.
- Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the united states without requiring sponsorship.
- We are unable to provide work visa sponsorship or employment authorization for this position now or in the future.
Preferred qualifications:
- Associate's degree.
- Bilingual, spanish-speaking.
- Experience working with computer software and programs, such as: ms office: excel, power point, word, outlook. epic. krono.
Conditions of employment:
- Must be able to work in-person.
- Must be able to travel to alternate locations as assigned.
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels, to include physicians, leadership, and staff.
- Ability to work within large, complex healthcare systems.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and communicate in person, by phone or in writing.
- Ability to interpret, communicate and document with proper medical terminology.
- Ability to recognize/interpret the physical exam process and record exam details.
- Ability to attest to computer proficiency and learn new computer applications.
- Ability to keyboard/type, write legibly, and accurately record information.
- Ability to analyze and interpret data.