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Constructing a Curriculum Vitae for Radiology Registrars
General Comments
- Be truthful. Fraud, if discovered, will at best result in the exclusion of that applicant from any further consideration.
- Be accurate. Dates, exam scores, awards and references for any cited research need to be checked and rechecked.
- Ensure relevance. Do not "pad" your CV with irrelevant information.
- Be professional. Prepare your CV, so that it is logical in its progression from beginning through middle to end. Have it professionally typed or use a word processor and laser printer. Check all spellings carefully. In sections where you have more than one entry, such as a list of publications, list each in chronological order with the most recent last. Use good quality paper and binders.
Personal Information:
Your name should appear on your CV as it does on legal documents and should include your middle initial. You need to include both your complete home and work address. Include telephone numbers where you can be contacted as well as, if available, fax numbers and e-mail address. Include also your date of birth. If applying for a job in another country, your current citizenship and potential resident status in the country to which you are applying should be included. Further, if you are applying to a country with a different first language, state your proficiency in the language of that country. Marital status and number of children is optional but occasionally may be helpful to prospective employers. Nowadays it is generally felt inappropriate to include your race or religion.
Education Before Medical School:
Name and city of your secondary school and, if appropriate, undergraduate college. Ocassionally it may be worthwhile including the names, dates and results of generally recognized or state-run examinations such as the Leaving Certificate. (ed note: only if outstanding). Included distinctions or awards achieved prior to admission to medical school, such as scholarships and grant awards.
Medical School Education: Name and address of your medical school and the years in which you were registered. Honors or awards received (include years) during your medical school. If any of these awards are eponymous than a brief explanation of the award should be included. Finally the degree awarded to you and the date on which you were conferred.
Postgraduate Employment:
In chronological order your employment needs to be recorded next, including the title of the job, the institution, the main consultant under which you worked, the type of speciality service and the commencement and termination dates of the employment period. This section should end by indicating your current position. Never leave time periods unaccounted for, blank periods may be interpreted as an attempt to cover something up.
Postgraduate Education:
This, to some extent, mirrors the prior section but details the educational
component of your employment rather than the clinical service component. Thus in this section you outline any sub-specialty training that you have or are currently obtaining. Include precise dates, location and title of the speciality training program in which you participated and under whose auspices it was run. Thus if you are in a training program of diagnostic radiology you need to indicate how you were appointed to that program and which college is responsible for program accreditation and certification as well as licensure at the end of the program.
In this section also you include any specialist courses you may have obtained since graduation such as advanced cardiac life support certification, or participation in management or administrative training sessions for physicians. This section should finish with a list of the degrees, titles and certifications obtained since obtaining your medical degree. Depending on the stage you are at in your career there are many other sections that you should consider. Only include the sections which are relevant to yourself:
Membership of Medical Societies: This should include a list of the local, national and international societies of which you have been or are currently a member. List the offices, if any, held during your membership of that society and also your membership of any of the society committees..
Grants: Indicate title of the project for which you receive grant support, the monetary value of that support, the name of the granting agency and your level of participation in the project ie. principal investigator or coinvestigator.
Awards: List any local, national, or international awards received in the years since leaving medical school. Include name of award, date and awarding institution. If eponymous, give a brief (one line) explanation.
Publications:
- Peer-Reviewed Publications: This section should include any peer reviewed paper of which you are an author or coauthor published in a recognized scientific journal. Include manuscripts that have been accepted for publication (denoted 'in press') as well as those already published. Publications should be listed in chronological order the most recent publication being last. "In-press" should not be applied to manuscripts being revised at the request of a journal editor, or submitted to a journal but as yet not accepted for publication. In listing the publications you should use the Vancouver style of reference. Make sure your name appears in correct position in the list of authors. It is misrepresentation to list yourself as first author if you are third. As this is your CV, your name should be readily identifiable within the list of authors. In order to make it stand out it is a good idea to bold text your name in the list of authors and some people also choose to underline it.
- Abstract Publications: Abstract publication should be clearly identified as such. Unless the proceedings of a meeting at which you present results are published in a recognized journal (or supplement to a journal) or formally published in book form, then the abstract is not technically published and therefore should not be included in your CV An abstract book put together solely for the participants of a specific meeting/conference does not count as an "abstract" publication.
- Other Publications: If you have authored or coauthored book chapters, non-peer reviewed manuscripts, portions of CD or other multimedia presentations or any other type of material not included in the above two sections, they should be included in this third section. Clearly identify the type of publication and the same information provided for each peer-reviewed publication needs to be included for each item cited in this section, i.e. author/contributor list (as published), title, publication forum and reference to allow it to be located by anyone reviewing your CV.
Presentations:
- Scientific Oral Presentations: If you have presented the results of original research undertaken either primarily by yourself, or by somebody else with you as a coinvestigator, then the title of the presentation, list of authors as well as the name, location and date of meeting should be recorded. If research of which you are a coauthor was presented by someone other than yourself at a research meeting then this is not allowable as an insert in your CV However, of course, if the abstract is published in a recognized journal supplement it can be entered in your CV as an abstract publication.
- Poster/Scientific Exhibit Presentations: List the authors as they appeared on the poster, the title of the poster, name, place and date of the meeting at which it was presented.
- Review/Invited Lectures: Includes those oral lectures which you are invited to present or review lectures which included no new scientific material. Many people include presentations at hospital 'grand rounds' in this section although technically this is not quite appropriate and certainly once you have passed the SHO stage such grand rounds presentations should not be included. Presentations to local scientific meetings as well as national/international meetings, be they in your own specialty or other related specialties, should be included.
Work in Progress: If you are a registrar then it is reasonable to include manuscripts which have been submitted for publication or presentation. List the title of the manuscript, list of coauthors and the name of the journal or meeting to which the material is submitted. Indicate whether it is a submitted publication, oral presentation or scientific exhibit.
The manuscripts which you are currently drafting which you want to include in this section need to have progressed far enough to the extent that by the time a potential interview arises then these should be at least submitted for publication/presentation.
Other Personal Information: In order to provide reviewers of your CV with some all-round insight into your persona/personality, many people include a brief section outlining non-career related details. Here it is reasonable to include personal interests, hobbies, sports, community activities and any non-medical awards or accomplishments.
References: The last page of your CV should contain the names, addresses and telephone (plus fax numbers if available) of your referees. If you are asked to provide three, make sure you give three!
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