How to hire radiologists

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
• Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
• Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
• Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.
• Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
• Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.
• Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
• Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.
• Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.

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, reading comprehension, speaking, critical thinking, writing and monitoring skills
• Working knowledge of medicine and dentistry, biology, English Language and computers and electronics
• [Anything else you would really turn someone away for]

Pay and benefits
[Pay range]. For reference, the U.S. median for this job is $202.34 an hour ($420,860 a year).
[Benefits, schedule and anything else candidates should know.]

How to apply
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Interview questions for radiologists

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 communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
2. Tell me about a time you had to confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
3. Tell me about a time you had to document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
4. Tell me about a time you had to obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians. 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. Tell me about written instructions, a policy or a manual you had to follow closely. How did you make sure you followed it correctly?
7. Explain something technical from your last job as you would to a new coworker.
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 radiologists do

• Communicate examination results or diagnostic information to referring physicians, patients, or families.
• Confer with medical professionals regarding image-based diagnoses.
• Document the performance, interpretation, or outcomes of all procedures performed.
• Obtain patients' histories from electronic records, patient interviews, dictated reports, or by communicating with referring clinicians.
• Perform or interpret the outcomes of diagnostic imaging procedures including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), nuclear cardiology treadmill studies, mammography, or ultrasound.
• Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
• Recognize or treat complications during and after procedures, including blood pressure problems, pain, oversedation, or bleeding.
• Review or transmit images and information using picture archiving or communications systems.

Skills that matter most

Active ListeningReading ComprehensionSpeakingCritical ThinkingWritingMonitoringMedicine and DentistryBiologyEnglish LanguageComputers and Electronics

Education, experience and outlook for radiologists

• Typical education to start: Doctoral or professional degree (BLS)
• Related work experience most have: 4 to 6 years (O*NET)
• Training on the job: Internship/residency (BLS)
• Job outlook: +3.4% over ten years, about as fast as average · about 700 openings a year (BLS)

What to pay radiologists

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

See radiologists pay in every state

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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.