Interview questions for Doctors

Q1.What made you opt for the medical profession? Why did you opt for this particular segment in the healthcare profession?
Q2.Tell us in brief about your working experience as a physician. Also briefly relate on your academic background. What do you consider to be your core competency areas?
Q3.Relate your short-term and long-term career objectives.
Q4.Are you presently working in a medical establishment? If yes, then tell us about your job profile-the tasks that you handle on a daily basis.
Q5.What made you apply for this vacancy in our hospital/ or in this medical department?
Q6.List your strengths and shortcomings.
Q7.What have been your best achievements till date?
Q8.What in your opinion are the skills that a medical practitioner should possess to excel in this area of medical specialization?
Q9.What are the personal and/or professional challenges one might encounter while working in this segment?
Q10.How do you look upon yourself? Tell us something about yourself?
Q11.Which medical school did you attend? What made you choose that particular school?
Q12.Why do you want to resign from your present job or what is it about this job that you’ve applied which interests you?
Q13.Why do you think we should offer you the job?
Q14.How do you think you can contribute to our organization?
Q15.Do you prefer to work by yourself or work as a team member?

Q16.Do you think you can contribute better if you work independently or if you work in close co-operation with a group?
Q17.Express your competencies as a group player.
Q18.Explain your clinical or medical discernment skills.
Q19.Can you describe a recent scenario where you were required to take a strategic decision in a pressure cooker situation and that too within a short time? Was the decision you ultimately took agreeable to both the patient and the hospital management?
Q20.What management skills do you possess?
Q21.How often were you involved in resolving conflicts with patients?
Q22.Do you get on well with your colleagues and subordinates?
Q23.What qualities in you find favour with your patients?
Q24.Do you keep getting referrals from your past and present patients?
Q25.What are your most prominent personality traits (stability, constancy, keenness,  inventiveness, and enterprise)
Q26.Do you get to your workplace in time on a regular basis?
Q27.Do you submit patient reports to your employer/senior everyday?
Q28.Do you keep proper records of your daily interactions with patients?
Q29.Are you able to answer all patient queries over phone?
Q30.Are you open to working in continuous shifts?
Q31.Are you willing to take on extra work load if required?
Q32.Are you willing to work an additional shift in case your colleague is absent?
Q33.Do you think you’ve done justice to your profession so far? (talk about your contributions to the community in general and to the medical fraternity in particular)
Q34.Do you get to spend quality with your family? Or do you take work home?
Q35.What do you think are the professional hazards faced by a doctor?
Q36.What do you plan to do after you hang up your gloves?
Q37.Has a patient ever filed a medical negligence suit against you?
Q38.Has the management ever pulled you up for professional misconduct or incompetence?