Questions During Interviews

[Indusium]

I'm about to graduate and in the process of speaking with recruiters/interviewing for jobs. What are good (or not so good) questions to ask (about the practice, hospital, compensation, benefits, etc) when interviewing and to whom would be most appropriate (hospital recruiter vs. neurosurgeons vs. admin, etc)?

[Guest]

OR block time, call demands and expectations (do u keep everything that comes in, or do certain pathologies get handed off), technology u want (O-arm, intra-op MRI, whatever), compensation structure, referral base, how supportive ur partners are, mid-level or resident presence during call and in the office, average OR turnover time, presence of a screening tool for ur clinic (so it’s mostly surgical, rather than non-op wastes of time), presence of competitors in the area, average numbers of cases performed in previous years, the list is long.

A useful resource can be industry reps actually, have them reach out to their colleagues at hospitals u are considering working at. They can give u valuable boots on the ground information about a potential job. Obviously not perfect intel, but if ur hearing multiple consistent negative or positive reports, it can be useful.

[Guest]

There is a paper on contract negotiations in the red journal that lays all that stuff out.