CV for post residency hospitalist job

[Jbirdski]

May be a stupid question but we'll see. I am in 3rd year of IM residency, looking into non-academic hospitalist positions. Prior to Medical school, I was in the military and I worked as a respiratory therapist both in the military and in civilian sector for quite a few years. My question is, how much of our prior live's (before becoming a physician) should we keep on our CV? I don't have a bunch of research, projects, papers, academia or any of that to put on my CV, frankly none of that interests me.

What do non-academic hospital employers want to see on the CV? In my mind, they just want to see that you graduated Medical school and you completed residency.

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[rokshana]

May be a stupid question but we'll see. I am in 3rd year of IM residency, looking into non-academic hospitalist positions. Prior to Medical school, I was in the military and I worked as a respiratory therapist both in the military and in civilian sector for quite a few years. My question is, how much of our prior live's (before becoming a physician) should we keep on our CV? I don't have a bunch of research, projects, papers, academia or any of that to put on my CV, frankly none of that interests me.

What do non-academic hospital employers want to see on the CV? In my mind, they just want to see that you graduated Medical school and you completed residency.

I have a section called relevant work experience… can put info there

 

[aafisahar]

Anything before med school is useless. A hospitalist that used to be an RT is still a hospitalist in the eyes of the hospital. Save your CV the bloat.

 

[chessknt]

Eh it gives you a story and memorability just keep it.

 

[collegestud2013]

Anything you did in undergrad or later is reasonable. Remember that CVs in medicine can be detailed and many pages long (and aren't like CVs in the business world where employers only want to see a 1-page CV). Just be sure you can have a solid conversation about anything if it's brought up in an interview. This includes basic science research you may have done a long time ago that may have little relevance to being a non-academic hospitalist.

 

[FutureInternist]

You have a pulse, they have a job

 

[dozitgetchahi]

Anything you did in undergrad or later is reasonable. Remember that CVs in medicine can be detailed and many pages long (and aren't like CVs in the business world where employers only want to see a 1-page CV). Just be sure you can have a solid conversation about anything if it's brought up in an interview. This includes basic science research you may have done a long time ago that may have little relevance to being a non-academic hospitalist.

If this is a community hospital position, I’d recommend streamlining the CV. Community recruiters don’t want to sift through pages and pages of bloated nonsense where the doc recounts every grand rounds they ever gave and anything else they can throw in just to make the CV look longer. Only academia cares about that. Cut the crap and make the CV readable. Pubs and other stuff are highly unlikely to make any difference in getting a community physician job.

 

[Gastrapathy]

Keep your veteran status on your cv.

 

[CluvK]

I am sorry for hijacking this thread. IM PGY-3 here and looking for a community hospital position. My CV is about 3 pages long where about 2 pages are my publications/abstracts/conference posters that I have done in residency. Should I keep these 2 pages or just forget about them?

 

[tantacles]

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I am sorry for hijacking this thread. IM PGY-3 here and looking for a community hospital position. My CV is about 3 pages long where about 2 pages are my publications/abstracts/conference posters that I have done in residency. Should I keep these 2 pages or just forget about them?

People are unlikely to care about them, but there's no reason to remove them. It's your CV.