Explorer

Learn to read and write a medical chart — the way the person sitting beside the doctor does. Then find out, honestly, whether any of this is for you.

11 units ~10 hours Ages 14–18 No prior science needed

What's in it

01Who's Whothe care team, three roads in

02Examination Roominstruments and the record

03Building Medical Wordsroots, prefixes, suffixes

04Words to Knowthe ones that don't come apart

05Parts of the ChartSOAP and eleven sections

06Medical Shorthand111 abbreviations, 3 real notes

07Take the Dictationwrite three notes by hand

08You Scribe Onedocument a live visit

09What It Costshours, years and debt

10What It Takesthe part nobody advertises

11Is This For Youtwelve honest questions

What it won't do

It won't sell your student a career. Two of the eleven units are about night shifts, holidays worked, six-figure debt, patients who don't get better, and why people leave the field.

A student who finishes and decides this isn't for them has got full value, and the course says so out loud. Finding that out at sixteen is worth a great deal more than finding it out at twenty-four.

The pilot

The course is finished. We're looking for a small first group to run it properly and tell us where it's wrong.

Free for the pilot. In exchange we'll ask three short questions partway through and a few more at the end — what dragged, what confused, what you'd have cut. Around ten hours of course over four to six weeks, at whatever pace suits.

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A parent, guardian or co-op leader should fill this in — not the student.

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Written for 14 to 18.

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Why this, and why now?

How did you hear about it?

I'm the parent, guardian or group leader for the students above and I consent to them taking part. I understand the course records how long each unit takes, that I'll see a summary of my student's final self-assessment, and that we never ask a student for their name or any personal detail. I've read the privacy policy.

I'll give honest feedback, including the parts that don't work. That's the whole point of a pilot.

Scribe Class — Explorer, for ages 14–18.
Professional training continues at Scribe Academy, and can be started from 16.
Issued by the Institute for Clinical Documentation Excellence.

All patients, encounters and records in this course are fictional. Completion is not a professional credential, a licence, or a qualification to practise. Academic credit is awarded by the issuing school or parent, not by this course.

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