Doctor and physician resume template

Catalyst begins with work experience and skips the summary, which suits a physician whose current hospital or practice post is what a medical director reads first. Its teal headings over full-width rules keep clinical posts, training and licenses clearly apart, and the headline under the name carries specialty and board status, since certifications print near the end.

Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta keeps a summary and prints education right after experience; choose it as a resident or new attending whose training is the main story.

Catalyst template details and test results

Catalyst prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.

1. Work Experience. Each post with hospital or practice type, service and load: "hospitalist, 16 to 18 patients a day, seven on and seven off". Then quality, leadership and teaching, each with one result. A short moonlighting post can sit under the main one.
2. Skills. Clinical areas and the procedures you perform, then the EHR. Keep it short; for a physician, posts and board status carry most of the weight.
3. Education. Residency and fellowship as separate entries with program, specialty and exact dates, then the MD or DO, then the bachelor's. Mention USMLE (Step 1, Step 2 CK, Step 3) only if the posting asks or you are early in your career.
4. Certifications. Board certification with the board and year, each active state medical license, then ACLS. ABMS describes certification as an independent evaluation followed by continuing certification, so note that yours is current.
5. Teaching and committees. "Teaching and committees" holds resident and student teaching, committee roles and talks you gave. Academic posts that want the full record will ask for a CV.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• physician
• hospital medicine
• internal medicine
• board certified
• inpatient care
• patient census
• length of stay
• readmission reduction
• care transitions
• sepsis management
• resident teaching
• quality improvement
• Epic
• interdisciplinary rounds
• state medical license

• Sending a long academic CV to a community hospital that asked for a resume; follow the posting.
• Patient details, even in anonymised case stories.
• Vague residency and fellowship dates; credentialing teams check them against their records.
• Listing every conference attended instead of the talks you gave and committees you led.

We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.

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1. USMLE (FSMB and NBME): United States Medical Licensing Examination (the USMLE program is owned by the Federation of State Medical Boards and the National Board of Medical Examiners; three exams: Step 1, Step 2 CK and Step 3)
2. American Board of Medical Specialties: Board Certification (board certification is an independent evaluation of a physician's knowledge and skills; 24 member boards; continuing certification follows initial certification)