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Kettering’s Physician Scribe Program –
Not your Typical College Experience

Today’s healthcare personnel are dealing with a field that
is quickly changing how medical records are documented
using Electronic Medical Records (EMR). With staff that have
varying technology skills, rising health care costs and stronger
privacy standards, different solutions are needed. Kettering
co-op students are part of the answer. Our pre-med students
are employed in the Physician Scribe program; Kettering
University has created joint ventures with Hurley Medical
Center, Michigan Health Specialists, OrthoMichigan, Capital
Urological Associates and Lansing Urgent Care.
Physician Scribes, or medical scribes, provide technical support
and training for medical professionals using the new EMR system.
Their role is to enter the details of the patient encounter into the
hospital’s records system, freeing up the physician’s time to focus on
the patient. Their work is done on portable computers. Dr. Michael D.
Roebuck, Chief Medical Information Officer at Hurley Medical Center,
said having computer-savvy young, bright students around has been
invaluable. “It’s a career exploration dream come true for a student
interested in pre-med. It’s an opportunity for students who hope to
pursue a career in medicine to get the kind of professional exposure
they need to help them decide on their likes and interests in medicine.”
Setting a new standard was exactly what Kettering’s leading
premed academics aimed at with the Physician Scribe program.
The Scribe co-op is an ideal environment for an aspiring physician
to see what it’s really like to be a doctor, day in and day out.

We Get To The Good Stuff Now
The Courses We know who you are. From the first week, you’ll

Two of Kettering’s degree programs, Biochemistry You’re interested in be learning from our world-
and Chemistry, already include the specific courses pre-med because you class faculty (that’s faculty,
required for entrance into most medical schools. want to help people and not teaching assistants),
make a difference. At other and testing your skills in our
If you choose one of our other degree programs, places, you might have labs. There’s no other place
you can obtain the required courses by taking to wait two or three years where you’ll get this type of
the Biochemistry minor and a year of Biology to before you get to perform experience so early.
obtain the most widely accepted Medical School simulated surgery or work
pre-requisites which are: with cadavers. Not here.
1 year of General Chemistry
CHEM-135/136 or CHEM-137/138,
CHEM-237/238 Your Kettering Thesis
1 year of Organic Chemistry
CHEM-345/346, CHEM-347/348 The Kettering Thesis solves challenges at work and is done
at the end of your co-op experience to show you’ve arrived
1 year of Biology and are a professional. The thesis is completed over two co-op
BIOL-141/142, BIOL-241/242 terms where you will call meetings and analyze data to solve
real company problems to make a true difference. Examples
½ year of Biochemistry include better patient flow in the emergency room and
CHEM-351/352 addressing post surgical dementia in the elderly.

Your Capstone

The Capstone project relies on your complete cumulative education at the end of your academic career and depends on
your academic major. For some, your capstone consists of an undergraduate research project where you work one-on-one
with a faculty member. For others’ it consists of a capstone course with challenging projects to improve your area of study.
Examples include solving problems doctors have in surgery or designing prosthetics for patients with challenging disabilities.

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