Infectious Disease Physician Mock Interview

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Question 19 of 25

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?

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Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

A no-brainer question. Of course you would respond. It is tempting to assume that certainly someone else would be there to respond, and that it typically true, but you don't want to be seen as the type of person who would need to hear the code called repeatedly before you responded.

Ryan Brown

Ryan Brown created and launched MockQuestions in 2008.

"Unless managing a clinically unstable situation or in the middle of a procedure, I would respond, and then drop out if there were those there who I felt were more qualified to attend and manage the code. As my primary specialty is Internal Medicine, I am qualified; but if there were a physician there who was currently practicing Cardiology or Internal Medicine, I would defer to him or her as better qualified since I have narrowed my clinical focus to Infectious Disease."

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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?