Career and Life Planning Guidebook for Medical Residents

Recommended Tool Prior to your first onsite interview, complete the Decision-Making Worksheet. Use this tool to identify personal values and work priorities to help you prepare ques- tions for each person you meet with. http://md.careers/E-26 The answers to these questions are important; after all, you’ve invested more than a decade of your life to becoming a physician. However, asking these questions right before you interview may increase anxiety. This may subconsciously cause you to hold back a little during the interview. Employers have much at stake when hiring physicians. The income lost after a primary care physician’s departure, the costs of recruiting a replacement, and a new physician’s startup expenses can easily top $200,000 . (2) In addition to the financial cost, the loss of a physician impacts the community, the medical staff, and most importantly, the patients. Today, interviewers are trained to pick up on any hesitation of a candidate. This can cost you as a candidate the entire opportunity, because the employer doesn’t want to make a mistake and risk losing another physician. So, push the anxiety aside for the time being; go into the onsite interviewwith the mindset of getting the job offer, and then you can decide whether the position is right for you! R E A D : Physician Employer’s Evaluation Process In general, hospital care is changing from volume- based care to value-based care, which means that boards of directors need to make major changes in their objectives and strategic goals. In spite of all of the changes, boards must continue to focus their top priorities on financial sustainability for the hospital and quality of care for their patients. (3) Physicians are critical to both financial sustainability and quality of care for their patients; therefore, the two must-have attributes a candidate needs are: 1. Skillset (quality care) 2. Productivity (financial sustainability) The Interview 245 WWW.PHYSICIANCAREERPLANNING.COM