Re:How to get hired (or, 'The silly story of interviewing in...
by Cass on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @11:46AM
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"5 years at County General" for a MD, with a clean record, is a pretty decent guarantee that your candidate is in the ballpark."
Scary but true: There are plenty of experienced doctors who couldn't pass a medical Fizzbuzz. My supervisor at my last teaching hospital, who has been treating patients for at least five years, failed the Fizzbuzz question I asked him. ("What's that other class of antibiotics you can't give patients with penicillin allergies?", if you're wondering.)
(There's also a few stories of people faking medical licenses and working as doctors for years before anyone noticed [1], but those are probably too rare to worry about.)
Scary but true: There are plenty of experienced doctors who couldn't pass a medical Fizzbuzz. My supervisor at my last teaching hospital, who has been treating patients for at least five years, failed the Fizzbuzz question I asked him. ("What's that other class of antibiotics you can't give patients with penicillin allergies?", if you're wondering.)
(There's also a few stories of people faking medical licenses and working as doctors for years before anyone noticed [1], but those are probably too rare to worry about.)
1: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/hamburg-falsche-kinderae..., couldn't find an English language link, sorry.