How to hire emergency medicine physicians

Job description template

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[Job title] at [Company name]
[City, State] · [Full-time / Part-time] · [Pay range]

About the role
[Two or three sentences about your team, the work and why it matters.]

What you will do
• Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
• Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
• Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
• Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
• Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
• Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
• Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
• Stabilize patients in critical condition.

What you bring
• [Required license, certification or years of experience, if any]
• [Education, only if you truly need it. Typical to start in this job: Doctoral or professional degree]
• Strong active listening, critical thinking, reading comprehension, speaking, monitoring and writing skills
• Working knowledge of medicine and dentistry, English Language, biology and psychology
• [Anything else you would really turn someone away for]

Pay and benefits
[Pay range]. For reference, the U.S. median for this job is $161.32 an hour ($335,550 a year).
[Benefits, schedule and anything else candidates should know.]

How to apply
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Interview questions for emergency medicine physicians

Ask every candidate the same questions, in the same order, and write down what they say. Questions about past work show what someone has actually done.

1. Tell me about a time you had to analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
2. Tell me about a time you had to conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
3. Tell me about a time you had to consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
4. Tell me about a time you had to evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
5. Tell me about a time you had to understand a request or problem that was explained poorly. How did you make sure you got it right?
6. Describe a decision at work where the obvious answer was wrong. How did you work out the better choice?
7. Tell me about written instructions, a policy or a manual you had to follow closely. How did you make sure you followed it correctly?
8. Why this job, and why now? What would make you stay here for the long term?

Good answers name a real situation, what the person did themselves and what happened. Avoid questions about age, family plans, religion, health, national origin or anything else unrelated to the job.

What emergency medicine physicians do

• Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
• Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
• Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
• Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
• Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
• Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
• Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
• Stabilize patients in critical condition.

Skills that matter most

Active ListeningCritical ThinkingReading ComprehensionSpeakingMonitoringWritingMedicine and DentistryEnglish LanguageBiologyPsychology

Education, experience and outlook for emergency medicine physicians

• Typical education to start: Doctoral or professional degree (BLS)
• Related work experience most have: 2 to 4 years (O*NET)
• Training on the job: Internship/residency (BLS)
• Job outlook: +3.2% over ten years, about as fast as average · about 900 openings a year (BLS)

What to pay emergency medicine physicians

Pay depends a lot on where the job is. Highest and lowest median yearly pay by state:

See emergency medicine physicians pay in every state

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• Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• Physicians, All Other
• Psychiatrists

Job duties and skills: O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JAI Bot has modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, May 2025. Interview questions and the job description template: JAI Bot, based on the duties and skills above.