General Internist Interview Questions

31 Share an experience in which personal connections to coworkers or others helped you to be successful in your work. (Make sure candidate works well with others.)
32 Share a time when you willingly took on additional responsibilities or challenges. How did you successfully meet all of the demands of these responsibilities? (Make sure the candidate is a self-starter and can demonstrate some initiative.)
33 Describe an experience when you advised surgeon of a patient's risk status and recommend appropriate intervention to minimize risk.
34 What is the most challenging part of directing and coordinating activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff?
35 Tell me about the last time you provided consulting services to other doctors caring for patients with special or difficult problems.
36 Describe a time when you successfully persuaded another person to change his/her way of thinking or behavior.
37 Provide an experience that demonstrates your ability to manage time effectively. What were the challenges and results?
38 Please share with me an example of how you helped coach or mentor someone. What improvements did you see in the person's knowledge or skills?
39 In your experience, what is the key to developing a good team? (Look for how they build mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.)
40 Name a time when your creativity or alternative thinking solved a problem in your workplace.
41 Share an experience in which you used new training skills, ideas, or a method to adapt to a new situation or improve an ongoing one. (Look for the candidate's ability to learn.)
42 What kind of experience do you have operating on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems?
43 Share an experience in which you successfully coordinated with others. How about a coordination effort that was not as successful?
44 What are some long-range objectives that you developed in your last job? What did you do to achieve them?
45 Name a time when you conducted research to develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.