Emergency Medicine Typing Test

Choosing Emergency Medicine in the Specialty menu mixes an ED vocabulary pack into the general medical stream, so a session reads like a shift of charts. Your words per minute and accuracy update as you type, which makes it a practical check for scribes, APPs and residents who chart in the emergency department.

Open the trainer with the Emergency Medicine pack

ED shift charting Resus and procedures ED vocabulary builder

Preset links open the trainer with those settings already applied; you can change them afterward.

What ED charts are made of

The ED chart is one note per encounter, written in layers across a shift. Triage gives the chief complaint, ESI level, vitals and screening results. The physician or APP note adds a focused HPI, a pertinent review of systems and a focused exam, then the sections that take the most typing: medical decision making with the differential, risk scores and independent interpretation of EKGs and images, the ED course with timed re-evaluations, procedure notes, consults, and the disposition with discharge instructions.

Most of it is short, dense sentences rather than long narrative. A single chest pain visit can include an HPI, a HEART score, two troponin results, an EKG read and a discharge plan with return precautions. Expect weight-based doses, timestamps, GCS broken into E, V and M, and laterality on nearly every trauma line.

What the emergency medicine pack adds

The pack has 1,100 new items and emphasizes about 450 general items, including the ED lines already in the general phrases. About 600 new note lines follow the chart: triage and arrival, HPI openings for common complaints, focused exam findings, MDM and risk stratification, re-evaluations, activations, procedures and return precautions:

• Woke up with left facial droop, last known well at bedtime around 2300
• Low risk chest pain with a HEART score of 3 and two negative high-sensitivity troponins
• Differential diagnosis includes acute coronary syndrome, pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, and pneumothorax
• STEMI activation at 0712, interventional cardiology paged, aspirin 324 mg chewed
• Closed with 6 simple interrupted 4-0 nylon sutures
• Return for worsening headache, repeated vomiting, confusion, or difficulty waking

With Abbreviations on, the first line becomes Woke up w/ L facial droop, LKW at bedtime around 2300. About 100 read lines are written the way emergency physicians document their own reads: EKG interpretations, bedside ultrasound (FAST, lung sliding, RV strain, early pregnancy), and the CT and plain film findings that drive dispositions. Dosing strings cover about 155 drugs, including RSI and sedation agents, ACLS drugs, antidotes, anticoagulant reversal and weight-based pediatric doses.

How to practice

For a charting session, turn on Note Phrases, Radiology & Path Findings and Symptoms & Signs, keep Abbreviations on, set the dosing slider around 20 and use Cascade, which lets errors pass and keeps the text moving. That is the closest setup to a scribe typing screen: note-style text, realistic term frequency, no stopping. Type for three to five minutes and watch your WPM and accuracy. The medical scribe typing test page covers what employers usually look for.

For resuscitation and procedures, switch to Note Phrases, Procedures, the generic drug chip and Physiology & Labs with Abbreviations off, dosing at 60 and Block, so every mistyped dose or timestamp stops the stream until you fix it. If you also choose Medical scribe in the Role menu, the mix shifts toward HPI, review of systems, exam and order lines. Nothing requires an account, and your history and per-key heatmap stay in your browser.