Pros
Depending on your physician, you can learn a great deal. You definitely get a chance to learn about what a physician would do in each situation. Especially with outpatient specialties, you'll have a chance to understand a specialty well and learn to expect what a physician would dictate and do for certain patient cases.
Cons
Poor management. Incredibly sketchy about your hours and cross training (after being a hire for a full time, I worked barely 8 hours a week for about 4 months because I was still "training"). I can't even say I was a crappy scribe, because I was the first one to complete training out of my group, and was scribing on my own after only the 2nd day of floor training. They just kept prolonging giving me hours and really avoided any conversation about it for the next few months. Project leaders have selective response to certain employees. They want you to commit for a year, and have a 6 month transfer policy if you want to transfer within company, but if you do try to transfer in 6 months, you're a disgrace to the company and will probably be shunned to oblivion, even though you are still transferring within the company and keeping your promise of that 1 year commitment. After that, forget about communicating with your project leader, you might as well be sending emails to Santa because you will not be getting a response anytime soon. The pay, the pay is terrible. Even scribing solo for a physician already pays me $12/hr off the bat, why does ScribeAmerica actually only give you $10/hr is horrifying, especially when you work all day (8hours), and don't have a break if your physician decides not to take a break that day and no one is there to cover you (which I'm pretty sure is against policy). Whoever is reading this, please don't get the idea that I am writing this because I am bitter or anything, the other scribes that I worked with were also horrified with management. The first 3 months we were there, we had to group after work and decide how to approach our JPL or PL and half of the time we did not have the guts to approach them because of their attitudes. They make the company seem so great, and it is, with great intentions, but their management is just awful.
