25Geriatric Physician Interview Questions & Answers
1.Tell me about yourself.
2.What is it about this group/hospital that makes you want to be a part of it?
3.What can you bring to our group/hospital?
4.Do you have any lawsuits currently or in the past, including any settlements?
5.Here we have a policy of _______. Do you have a problem with that?
6.If you’re not available, due to illness or vacation, for example, how will your patients be cared for?
7.Do you have any personal problems with our seeing or assigning you indigent or “charity†cases?
8.If you were to see a peer disrespecting an elderly patient or doing or saying something inappropriate, how would you respond?
9.What invasive procedures are you planning to do?
10.How do you feel about telemedicine?
11.Are you going to be doing any chronic pain care?
12.Are there any substance abuse, domestic violence, or other background items that could impact the integrity of our hospital/group?
13.If you’re on a rotational call for indigent patients or patients without a doctor, how would you feel about having to see a patient in the ED whom you had dismissed from your practice?
14.Would you be willing to accept whatever electronic medical record process is in use here?

15.How would you handle a problem in which Utilization Review wants you to discharge a patient who you feel isn’t medically ready for discharge?
16.If you were to receive a communication from the Executive Committee about a practice issue of yours that it seems could have clinical repercussions, how would you address the members when meeting with them?
17.How timely is your practice to sign off on chart entries and make all of your dictations current? Have you ever been suspended from a staff for failure to do these?
18.Would you be willing to serve on a committee investigating an issue with one of your colleagues?
19.What would be your response to hearing a code being called in the middle of the night as you’re getting ready to go home after attending a patient?
20.How is your attendance at general staff and department meetings?
21.How would you handle a family member who disagrees with the intentions of your patient’s Advanced Directive?
22.Many people, especially family members, feel that their loved one requires intensive care. What is your feeling regarding placement, if the patient doesn't actually require this?
23.Do you feel a DNR advanced directive patient should take up a spot in the ICU?
24.If your patient is terminal and is at home with Hospice in terrible pain, how do you feel about medicating him or her for pain relief if you know it will hasten death?
25.If a patient with severe dementia has two equally authorized persons disagreeing with management, e.g., two children or two siblings, how will you decide whose directives to follow?
