This question helps you understand a candidate's passion and speciality or what age range they enjoy working with most. You might learn about their motivations, influences, and goals, and their answer can help establish how they would work within your existing team. Listen for:

• Evidence of passion and expertise
• Evidence of experience in paediatrics
• Ability to work well as a team member

This question can give insight into a candidate's motivation and passion for the job. It can also help you determine how well their work history compliments other members of the staff. Knowing more about what they're proud of can give you insight into an applicant's character. Listen for:

• Enthusiastic storytelling
• Specific observations or examples
• A passion for medicine

Pediatricians often deal with concerned parents and patients, and this question gives insight into whether the applicant can handle these situations with compassion and ease. You'll learn if their personal values agree with those of your practise. It can also give insight into whether the candidate is someone parents would select as their child's doctor. Listen for:

• Ability to build rapport
• Demonstration of a sincere and compassionate demeanour
• Innovative tactics for gaining trust and cooperation

Pediatricians perform exams on patients to diagnose injuries and illnesses or to assess a patient's growth is in alignment with their age group. There may be situations where a patient's condition is beyond their medical expertise and this question allows you to determine how they handle patient referrals. Listen for:

• Prioritization of patient health and safety
• Understanding of their expertise
• Established contacts with area doctors

This question helps establish a candidate's interpersonal skills, level of compassion, and experience in delivering hard news. An applicant's answer may affirm their demeanour and if their personality is a suitable match with your practise.  Listen for:

• An established method of revealing difficult health news
• An ability to listen and answer questions
• An understanding of patient and family reactions

This question helps you gauge if the candidate can successfully employ conflict resolution strategies. It can help you assess their level of compassion, patience, and interpersonal skills. Listen for:

• Acceptance of culturally diverse patients and viewpoints
• Willingness to consider a parent's or patient's alternative view
• Knowledge of conflict resolution strategies and practise employing them

Pediatricians interact with other medical personnel and office staff aside from patients and their families. This question can help determine a candidate's communication and work style, interpersonal skills, and approachability. Listen for:

• Positive descriptors and adjectives
• Examples of professional behaviour
• Genuine and authentic input

Many in the medical field stay involved with continuing education opportunities, professional organisations, and trial research. This question can give insight into the professional extracurricular activities of a candidate to assess their work ethic, long-term goals, and community involvement. Listen for:

• Recent involvement
• Membership in established or accredited organisations
• Examples of community involvement

With improvements and new knowledge in the medical industry, it's important for pediatricians to stay up to date with advancements, news, and trends in medicine and pediatric care. This question can help determine how informed your applicant is about recent health news or how motivated they are to keep seeking new skills, techniques, and medical knowledge. Listen for:

• A recent example of important health news
• Specific references to reputable medical sources 
• A desire to keep learning

Doctors and nurses use needles daily and, understandably, children often get scared of them. This question helps you evaluate if the candidate knows about ointments and other medical techniques that reduce pain from needles and general ways of handling a child's reaction to them. Listen for:

• Knowledge of pain-relieving ointments for needle pricks
• Patience during a child's reaction or nervousness
• Ability to soothe a patient

Doctors need to build their practise while balancing the number of patients they can take. This question gives insight into some of the administrative aspects of being a pediatrician. Listen for:

• Thoughtful understanding of business practises
• Prioritization of healthcare over revenue
• Previous examples of administrative experience

Work as a pediatrician includes challenging and emotionally trying moments, so this question can give insight into how your candidate handles stress or difficult circumstances. It can help you determine if the applicant is a culture match at your practise and if they'll interact with patients well. Listen for:

• An empathetic response
• An emotionally balanced demeanour
• A specific example rather than a generic reply

A cardiovascular exam is often routine during patient visits. This question helps you understand a candidate's basic medical knowledge of how to perform the procedure along with their mannerisms and methods of working. You can glean insight into whether this applicant has the skills to do well in your practise. Listen for:

• In-depth knowledge of medical procedures
• Ability to keep patient comfortable and calm
• A compassionate way of engaging with the patient

Pediatricians can continue growing their expertise and this question gives input into how they see their field advancing. Whether it's medical equipment, treatment options, or preventative care, your candidate's answer reflects their interests. Listen for:

• Knowledge of current healthcare industry
• Passion for their field
• Insight into advances underway

Because pediatricians interact with a wide range of people and ages, it's important they have a welcoming and friendly personality. This question establishes how your candidate connects with others to gain trust and authority. Listen for:

• Examples of interpersonal skills
• Specific methods to connect with others
• A level of self-awareness