A detailed inside look into scribe leadership program of Augmedix BD Ltd- A unique career opportunity of the 21st century

Abstract

Augmedix is a Silicon Valley company founded in 2012 by two geniuses from Stanford University, “Ian Shakil” and “Pelu Tan” (Augmedix Remote Documentation Sevices, 2019). Augmedix eventually serves in 3 countries along with USA and Bangladesh is one of them. Augmedix turns natural doctor patient conversation into medical documentation in real time, so that doctors can specialize more on patient care. The Augmedix platform is powered by a mix proprietary NLP Technology and specially trained team to make sure quality and consistent documentation. This special trained team are known as Scribe in Bangladesh. A scribe from Bangladesh partners with US doctor in real time communication and are intrinsically inventive, utilizing audio as well as video input to create full medical documentation. A BPO company Augmedix BD Ltd trains scribe for five months so that they can give their level best to assist the doctor. Scribes need to go through multiple training phases before serving the doctor in real time. This training phases and career growth of scribe is called Scribe Leadership Program. Augmedix BD Ltd has already hired hundreds of scribes and planning to hire thousands more and all of this happening because of Scribe Leadership Program. Scribe Leadership program follows some steps time to time, train scribes, ensure their fast career growth and provide numerous opportunities along with challenges and I tried to cover all these in my report.