How did you list your clinical rotations on your resume?

[langiyo]

I'm a first year vet student applying to internships as a vet student and I want to include my rotations on my resume as they gave me a lot of valuable experience. I go to UIUC and they have first year rotations, each rotation (Oncology, Orthopedics, Internal Med ect.) was a week each, 8 hours a day, for a total of 8 weeks. How would I list this on my resume?

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[pp9]

I'm a first year vet student applying to internships as a vet student and I want to include my rotations on my resume as they gave me a lot of valuable experience. I go to UIUC and they have first year rotations, each rotation (Oncology, Orthopedics, Internal Med ect.) was a week each, 8 hours a day, for a total of 8 weeks. How would I list this on my resume?

Being a student at the same school, I'm not sure that I would list your first/second year rotations on your resume. You just don't get that in depth in one week or as an underclassman in general, but that's my opinion.

Anyways, I have a 'Relevant Coursework/Workshops' section on my resume. I have a few bullet points under the workshops I've done describing the main benefits/points of having done it, as well as electives. I would only include the ones relevant to your internship (like if it's an exotics internships, listing WEAMS would be more beneficial than listing Oncology for example). Again, 100% my opinion. You'll find a lot of different opinions when it comes to CVs/resumes.

 

[JaynaAli]

Yeah I didn't list all my rotations. We've all been/are going to vet school and know what types of rotations people have to do. I definitely didn't list services I shadowed on during the 1-3 years. I only put the ones that were directly applicable to my application. For example, I was applying to clin path residencies so I listed my externships at MPI Research, the University of Florida, Colorado State University, and a special advanced diagnostic medicine elective plus time spent with pathologists at the microscope reviewing cases.

I can understand wanting them on there since they seem important now, but by 4th year, what you did first year will likely be minimally relevant. I don't say that to knock you down and I didn't go to UIUC so I don't know what your rotations actually do, so take it with a grain of salt. But the watching I did first year, while valuable, was nothing like really being involved in the case as a senior. If you need/want them on there for now, I'd view it like I do keeping high school stuff on a resume. It's okay to leave your HS stuff on there for the first semester of undergrad, but it's time to take it off come sophomore year. This is basically the same kind of thing, it's okay now but it should be replaced by better experience as you progress through the program.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Wut? Who lists rotations on their resume when it is just part of your curriculum?

 

[DVMDream]

Wut? Who lists rotations on their resume when it is just part of your curriculum?

I listed some of the things I took in excess during final year, like extra rotations in radiology (yeah I'm odd) and I think I was a permanent addition to the internal med rounds rooms because I took an additional 4 or 6 weeks or something like that. Umm, definitely wouldn't put anything from first year.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

I listed some of the things I took in excess during final year, like extra rotations in radiology (yeah I'm odd) and I think I was a permanent addition to the internal med rounds rooms because I took an additional 4 or 6 weeks or something like that. Umm, definitely wouldn't put anything from first year.

I can see that - I put my external path rotations on my resume, but like you said, excess/extra stuff that is targeted. Not the required stuff which is what I assumed the OP was talking about. It sounds like resume padding more than anything else.

 

[DVMDream]

I can see that - I put my external path rotations on my resume, but like you said, excess/extra stuff that is targeted. Not the required stuff which is what I assumed the OP was talking about. It sounds like resume padding more than anything else.

Agreed. I wouldn't put anything that was just part of the curriculum.

 

[pooter]

I didn't list rotations. If I'd done externships, I would have considered listing those, depending on where they were done (an AMC externship, for instance, being more impressive than two weeks at the primary care clinic down the street).

 

[deleted498041]

Wut? Who lists rotations on their resume when it is just part of your curriculum?

I was told to list some rotations that I felt gave me experiences that went above and beyond what a typical vet student got... I was told to do so because our curriculum at Western is different. I matched, so I guess it didn't look too bad!

 

[Kpowell14]

I agree with everyone else, it's a bit much to list things that are part of the core curriculum. However, if you have a special interest in a certain specialty and did electives/ externships in that area, I would list those.