20Emergency Room Physician Interview Questions & Answers
1.Please introduce yourself and tell me something about why you’re applying here?
2.What is it about [ENTITY REPRESENTED BY INTERVIEWER] that made you select us?
3.What do you feel you can personally bring to our group?
4.Have you had any lawsuits or settlements?
5.Here we have a policy of our staff not moonlighting as a medical expert for medical malpractice law firms, since you’re paid an annual salary. Do you have a problem with that?
6.Do you have any medical conditions that might affect your dependability?
7.An Emergency Medicine physician traditionally does not see patients after they leave the ER. Do you plan to interact with the patients who have required admission after their ER incidents?
8.If you were to see a peer having difficulty with an emergency procedure (e.g., blood gas retrieval, chest tube placement, intubation, etc.), how would you respond?
9.What invasive procedures are you uncomfortable with?
10.What would you do if a patient were combative and verbally abusive, even including spitting and forcefully removing things like IVs and catheters?
11.Are there any things in your past that would show up in a background check done on you?
12.Pregnancy termination is a controversial subject, even when extended to 'emergency contraception.' Would have any issues providing such treatment, especially in a case of rape or incest?
13.Would you be willing to use our proprietary electronic health records?
14.If the Executive Committee summoned you to address a practice issue of yours that had clinical importance, such as a medical dose error, what would you do?
15.How do you feel about law enforcement entering your sphere if your patient is involved in a crime—as either a victim or perpetrator?
16.There are things you will see every day in the ER most people only see once in a lifetime, if at all. What measures do you use to remain objective or even avoid the depression that naturally comes from such consistent exposure to tragedy?
17.How would respond to a substance abuse patient having a seizure or other life-threatening event because of withdrawal? Should you deny him and teach him a lesson or give him what he needs?
18.If you are treating someone repeatedly for crises that occur because he or she won’t modify a certain lifestyle, how can you help this patient?
19.What can you think of that might improve the ER we provide and the services we offer?
20.What would you do if a verbally abusive patient were to begin shouting ethnic slurs that your other patients found disturbing?
