Infectious Disease Physician Mock Interview

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Question 15 of 25

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?

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Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

This pits you against the hospital for a solution to everyone's benefit. UR actions are usually based on dollar issues, protecting the hospital bottom line from insurance denials.

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

"If I felt it would be dangerous to send a patient home, I would write a note of necessity for continued admission, on medical grounds, so that UR could submit it for approval from a third-party payer. If the patient just wanted to stay out of convenience, I would explain that he or she has satisfied criteria for discharge, but I would also offer home health follow-up if the patient desired and it were allowed/authorized."

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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?