MD/DO Preadmissions
Posted Oct 16, 2025 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
This practice is shared with advanced practice providers. How do you work with APPs on a team where you are both seeing similar patients?
What they are checking: Collaboration and supervision style in a shared clinic where consistency across providers matters.
What draws you to preadmissions work instead of a primary care or hospitalist role?
What they are checking: Whether they truly want a consultative, focused practice or are mainly drawn by the no-call schedule.
Tell me about a time you caught something in a pre-procedure evaluation that changed the plan.
What they are checking: Real clinical vigilance and evidence that their assessments have actually prevented harm.
What would you do
You find an uncontrolled A1c of 11 two weeks before an elective surgery. The surgeon wants to proceed. What do you do?
What they are checking: Ability to push back on timing with the surgeon respectfully when the patient's safety calls for a delay.
Anesthesia flags a patient you cleared as high risk on the day of surgery. How would you handle that?
What they are checking: Whether they take feedback from anesthesia without defensiveness and use it to close gaps in their process.
How do you explain to a patient why their surgery is being postponed for medical optimization when they've already taken time off work?
What they are checking: Communication that keeps the patient's trust when the medically right answer is frustrating for them.
About the work
Walk me through a preoperative visit for a 74-year-old with heart failure and diabetes scheduled for a hip replacement. What are you looking for?
What they are checking: Whether they run a structured risk assessment and focus on what can actually be improved before surgery.
A patient on apixaban is having a colonoscopy with likely polypectomy next week. How do you plan their anticoagulation?
What they are checking: Comfort with periprocedural anticoagulation, a core duty named in this posting, including bleeding risk versus clot risk.
When would you bridge a patient on warfarin, and when would you avoid it?
What they are checking: Up-to-date knowledge that bridging is rarely needed and often adds bleeding without preventing clots.
How do you decide whether a patient needs a stress test or cardiology consult before surgery, and when is more testing just noise?
What they are checking: Judgment to avoid low-value testing that delays care without changing the plan.
How do you keep your documentation clear enough that the surgeon and anesthesiologist can act on it in under a minute?
What they are checking: Writing notes for the reader, since a preop note only matters if the procedural team can use it fast.
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