Infectious Disease Physician Mock Interview

Prepare for 25 Infectious Disease Physician interview questions covering clinical expertise, outbreak response, and antimicrobial stewardship.

Question 10 of 25

How do you feel about telemedicine?

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Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine is probably here to stay, and everyone--including hospitals and groups--are looking for ways to incorporate it in a fiscally prudent way. You should be seen as ready to embrace it; not blindly, but thoughtfully within the parameters of what is considered good medical care.

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

"I require a patient's physical presence and an exam to document signs and symptoms that are applicable to the chief complaint or the present illness. Since most of my involvement will be with serious issues and/or admitted patients, telemedicine becomes irrelevant. However, if the patient is established with me and I am familiar with his or her case, I can discuss and manage symptoms or medications via telemedicine if management is nothing more than refilling a medication or continuity of an established treatment. An infectious disease, however, often involves rapid deterioration of a patient, and there is very little I can really do via telemedicine."

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25Infectious Disease Physician Interview Questions & Answers

1.Would you please tell me a little about yourself?

2.What is it about [ENTITY REPRESENTED BY INTERVIEWER] that makes you want to be a part of it?

3.What can you bring to [OUR ENTITY OR GROUP]?

4.Do you have any lawsuits currently or in the past, including any settlements?

5.Here we have a policy of [STIPULATED]. Do you have a problem with that?

6.If youâ€™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 our assigning you indigent or 'charity' cases?

8.If you were to see a peer 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 (or group)?

13.If youâ€™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 isnâ€™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 feels could have clinical repercussions, how would you address the members when you went to the 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 youâ€™re getting ready to go home after attending a patient?