Q&A: Questions to ask new hospitalist recruits
Hospitalist Leadership Connection, May 12, 2009
Q: What specific questions should I ask a recruit who has never been a hospitalist before?
A: It’s important to set the stage with the question, but then get off the stage and let them answer the question. Understanding the answer is just as important as how you frame the question. Ask them questions such as this:
- What is it about your current position that is leading to you to consider a change?
- How much hospital medicine have you done in the past? What did you like and dislike?
- What is it that attracts you to this hospital medicine position?
Try to understand their mentality. Have a “reality discussion” with physicians that come from an office-based practice where the entire office staff is geared toward making their day run smoothly and efficiently. It’s a very different mindset than hospital medicine. Asking them questions about their office-based practice–what they liked about it, what went well–determines if they have a servant’s heart.
The above excerpt is adapted from Hospitalist Recruitment and Retention: Practical Interviewing, Workload, and Scheduling Tips for Program Managers, with Kirk Mathews, MBA, CEO, principal, and founder of Inpatient Management Inc., and Carole Montgomery, MD, physician site leader for the Grand Rapids hospitalist division of Michigan Medical, P.C. The HCPro, Inc. Webcast aired on Dec. 18, 2008. You can listen to a sound clip and purchase a CD at HCMarketplace.
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