Residents have the worst documentation-to-autonomy ratio in medicine: the most notes, the least control over how they're written, and a program director who signs off on your professionalism. So before any feature talk, here is the honest framework for using an AI scribe in residency.
Rule 1: Your program's policy beats everything in this post
Some programs and hospitals have explicit AI-documentation policies. Many have none, which is not the same as permission. If your institution hasn't addressed it, ask — in writing is better. The question to ask is specific: "May I use an ambient AI tool to draft notes that I fully review and edit before signing?" That framing matters, because the defensible use of a scribe is as a drafting tool under your complete review, and that's the use you want blessed.
If the hospital's answer is no, the answer is no. No scribe feature is worth a professionalism citation in your file.
Rule 2: The note is still yours, and your attending's
Nothing about an AI draft changes the supervision chain. Your attending attests to your note; billing rules about who documented what still apply; teaching-physician requirements still apply. An AI scribe sits below you in that chain, not beside you. Practically, that means:
- Read every line before you sign. AI notes omit things and occasionally add things ([the failure modes, explained](/pulse/how-ambient-ai-scribes-work)). "The AI wrote it" is not a phrase that has ever helped anyone in a chart review.
- Don't let a fluent draft inflate your exam. If the draft documents a complete review of systems you didn't do, delete it. Upcoding by acquiescence is still upcoding.
- Your attending should know you're using one. Not because you need permission for a drafting tool, but because surprising your attending is never the right side of a judgment call.
Rule 3: Use the time for the thing residency is actually for
The case for a scribe in residency isn't convenience — it's that every minute not spent typing an H&P from memory at 9 p.m. is a minute available for reading, for a procedure, or for sleep, and all three make you a better physician faster than transcription does. Residents who use scribes well treat the reclaimed time as protected, not as capacity for two more admissions.
What tebIQ's resident pathway actually is
We built a resident tier because residents kept asking and the honest answer for a long time was "you can't afford it, and you shouldn't have to." The pathway, plainly:
- Free for residents. Unlimited private scribe notes and dictation.
- Teaching points on your own patients. After a note, the system can surface the didactic angle in the case you just saw — the thing a good attending would pimp you on. It's generated from your documentation, for your learning; it is not clinical advice and it doesn't replace your attending.
- A monthly allotment of full-AI charts so you can see what the complete pipeline does.
- Private means private. Your notes are your workspace drafts. Nothing pushes to an EHR; you copy what you choose to copy, into the system your program actually uses, under the rules above.
What it isn't: a way around your program's documentation requirements, a co-signer, or a shortcut past learning to write a note yourself — there's a separate post in this issue on why that skill still matters ([notes 101](/pulse/what-makes-a-good-hp)).
Seats are limited and there's a waitlist when they run out. Details at tebiq.com/residents.
Built by an ER attending who still remembers what 2 a.m. notes felt like as a PGY-2. Start at tebiq.com.