Physician assistant resume template

Henrietta prints education directly after experience, which for a new PA puts the master's program just below the patient care jobs rather than after a skills block. Its three-column skills grid holds short procedure names (suturing, splinting, incision and drainage), and the black-and-grey layout reads as conventional in a hospital or group practice.

Second choice: Meridian. Meridian prints skills before experience; choose it once you have PA jobs and want your procedures read before the work history.

Henrietta template details and test results

Henrietta 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. Professional Summary. PA-C status (or your PANCE date), the specialty you want and the patient care background behind you. Name two or three rotation areas that match the job.
2. Work Experience. For a new graduate, the patient care jobs from before PA school (EMT, scribe, CNA, medical assistant) with hours and what you did yourself. Once you have PA work, it replaces them: setting, patients per shift, procedures, the team you work in.
3. Education. Master's in PA studies with the program and graduation date, then the bachelor's. NCCPA only lets graduates of ARC-PA accredited programs sit the PANCE, so note the accreditation in the detail line.
4. Skills. Procedures and clinical skills you performed on rotations or in practice, then the EHR and clinical references. Henrietta's grid drops the group labels, so lead with procedures.
5. Certifications. NCCPA certification with the date, then BLS, ACLS and PALS. Put state license status ("Utah license application submitted") in the summary, where a recruiter checking your start date will see it.
6. Clinical rotations. "Clinical rotations", one line each: specialty, setting and length. Keep all of them in your first year out; after that, cut to the ones that match the post.

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 assistant
• PA-C
• NCCPA
• PANCE
• clinical rotations
• patient assessment
• history and physical
• differential diagnosis
• suturing
• splinting
• emergency medicine
• EHR documentation
• patient care hours
• BLS
• ACLS

• Writing PA-C before you have passed the PANCE and NCCPA has certified you.
• Rotation bullets that repeat "assisted with patient care" eight times; one line per rotation is enough.
• Rounding up patient care hours from scribe or EMT work.
• Leaving out your license status, so a hiring team cannot tell when you could start.

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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We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.

1. NCCPA: Become Certified (to be eligible for the PANCE you must graduate from an entry-level PA program accredited by ARC-PA; after passing, PAs can use PA-C while their certification remains current)