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Rabu, 24 April 2013

Emergency Medicine Physician CV: Your Life on Paper

By Amy Cline


A CV or curriculum vitae (literally course of life" in Latin) gives employers their first real in-depth examination of the professional accomplishments of an emergency medicine physician. Even if these employers have already spoken to you on the phone, actually viewing your professional background on paper can be a make-or-break moment in your job search process. CV information is critical to any hospital or ER management group looking to hire physicians skilled in the science and art of this specialty.

Think of your physician CV as a book that tells a story about you. Employers are hiring the "person" not the skill-set. This vital document should give a potential employer a sense of who you are as a professional and as a person. When preparing your physician CV include more than where you went to school, where you completed your residency or even what professional achievements you have attained.

When preparing your CV it is important to include your skills, hobbies, and personal strengths, beyond your clinical ability. Take care not to clutter up your physician CV with trivial personal strenghts. The focus should be on anything that could credibly add value in the employer's opinion. Good examples of this would be adding any foreign languages you speak fluently, computer skills or even public speaking abilities. Depending on the physician job you are seeking or the level of technology in the emergency room, it doesn't take much to realize how important mentioning these items can be.

However, other less quantifiable skills and traits could also give you an edge over other candidates. For example, how is your bedside manner? If you're especially gifted at putting patients at ease, you could conceivably be able to treat more patients during a shift because they will communicate their symptom more quickly and completely, enabling a faster diagnosis. Are you especially detail-oriented? If so, you will be highly-valued as a good record keeper, especially important in documenting your work with regulatory agencies.

Don't overplay these ancillary traits; a simple bullet point outlining the personality strength and how it would positively impact your job performance in the emergency room will suffice.

From there, you might want to include a paragraph on a single professional accomplishment, such as being selected as ER Physician of the Year" for the previous year, or chosen to be a speaker at an ACEP Scientific Assembly. Whatever it is, make sure it's important enough to highlight before your professional credentials. (If it isn't noteworthy enough, include the honor at the bottom of your CV, where they're traditionally listed.)

If you are unsure of your CV or can't decide if an honor is important enough to mention, you should have it reviewed by a physician staffing firm. Finding one that is experienced in matching emergency medicine physicians would be ideal if that is the specialty you are focusing on. Professional physician recruiters have seen thousands of emergency medicine CVs over the years and know what carries weight and what doesn't.

The services of these firms are free to ER physicians; instead, physician staffing firms are compensated by hospitals and groups after a successful job match.




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