How timely would you say your charting and dictations were during residency training?
Getting behind on charting after a long and busy day happens easily in any practice, and this is especially true for residents and fellows in training. Your interviewers at this Gastroenterology Fellowship ask a question regarding the timelines of your charting and dictation to hear how you prioritize these tasks during a busy and to ensure that you can do what is necessary for a patient's record, even on the busiest of days.
"Although I've been occasionally remiss in keeping all sign-offs and dictations current during the busiest of days in residency training, I feel it is important for me to be diligent in keeping current. It is not lost on me how reimbursement by third-party payers can be affected by incomplete charts. Just as important is the need for accuracy, and attempting to remember specifics from a procedure or rounds can become spotty if too much time has passed. For these reasons, I agree that keeping current is important and would always strive to be timely in my charting as a GI Fellow in training."
Speak openly and honestly about how your prioritized your patient charting during residency training and push your answer further by highlighting any direct feedback you received on your great charting skills from faculty. If you had experienced a time where your charting/dictation wasn't timely, it is okay to bring that situation up as long as you can express what you learned from it moving forward into Gastroenterology Fellowship training.
Community answers are written by other candidates practicing this set. Reading how others frame the same question is one of the fastest ways to sharpen your own.
Anonymous Answer
I always have to be timely in my charting as soon as possible same day because it is important in many ways. 1. important is the need for accuracy. 2. attempting to remember specifics from a procedure or rounds can be difficult if too much time has passed. 3. reimbursement by third-party payers can be affected by incomplete charts.
Marcie's Feedback
You've provided excellent reasons for why it's important to be timely when charting. Add another sentence or two emphasizing that you have a strong track record of keeping up on this, even when things are busy and stressful. Talk about how you manage to do this in these kinds of situations. Good job!
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