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Medical Resume—Templates and 25+ Writing Tips [+Objective]

You’re on the front-lines in the healthcare world, treating patients and improving quality of life. But employers won’t believe it without proof. Use this medical resume sample.

Tom Gerencer, CPRW
Career Writer at ResumeLab
Medical Resume—Templates and 25+ Writing Tips [+Objective]

This medical resume sample works like an ACE bandage.

 

That’s good, because even though medical jobs are growing fast, the flood of new applicants vying for those jobs is growing even faster.

 

So your medical field resume has to stand out like Edward Jenner to get noticed.

 

In this guide:

  • A medical resume sample better than most.
  • How to write a successful medical resume.
  • How to customize your medical job description to the job you’re after.
  • Why you can’t just list medical skills (and what to do instead).

 

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Medical Resume Sample You Can Copy and Use

 

Tanya Robbins

Certified Medical Assistant

 

Personal Info

 

Phone: 281-690-4769

Email: tanyazrobbins@gmail.com

linkedin.com/in/tanyazrobbins

twitter.com/tanyazrobbins

 

Summary

 

Certified Medical Assistant with 6+ years of experience providing excellent administrative support in hospital and clinic settings. Seeking to deliver expert-level care at PPMC. At Shawna Taylor Medical Center, saved $120K through attention to detail.

 

Experience

 

Medical Assistant

Shawna Taylor Medical Center, Sugarland, Texas

2016–2020

  • Provided expert medical assistance in busy hospital, including documentation, filing, patient care, education, and vital sign collection.
  • Pre-certified 25% more patients than average for health care through insurance providers facilitating 15% revenue increase.
  • Cleaned and stocked examination rooms for use by staff.
  • Sent and received patient records as needed, maintaining 100% HIPAA compliance at all times.
  • Assisted with the maintenance, calibration, and inspection of medical equipment according to daily checklist.

Key Achievement:

  • Saved the hospital an estimated $120,000 by spotting four serious malfunctions in medical equipment during inspections.

 

Medical Office Assistant

MedFast Network, Pearland, Texas

2014–2016

  • Worked as office assistant in high-volume medical clinic. Performed patient intake and documentation and assisted nurses and doctors.
  • Welcomed and processed patients on arrival to clinic. Processed and performed data entry on applicable forms with 99.9% accuracy.
  • Transmitted patient forms to insurance vendors. Achieved reimbursements 10% faster than clinic average.
  • Maintained supplies inventory and restocked examination rooms. Worked with vendors to achieve 17% savings on medical supplies.

Key Achievement: 

  • Maintained 96% positive reviews from patients.

 

Education

 

Sugarland High School

2014

 

Certifications

 

  • Certified Medical Assistant, AAMA 
  • Basic Life Support, American Red Cross

 

Additional Activities 

 

  • Freelance typist.
  • Volunteer 2x per month for Habitat for Humanity.
  • Ride bike 70+ miles per week as self-care.

 

Hard Skills: patient assessment, taking vital signs, medical administrative skills, administering injections

 

Soft Skills: interpersonal skills, communication, teamwork, efficiency

 

Here’s how to write a medical resume that restarts your career:

 

1. Choose the Best Medical Resume Format

 

How to start a resume? With a medical resume format that will get you hired.

 

That’s an easy one.

 

The reverse-chronological resume format works best.

 

It lists your most Lasker-level achievements at the top.

 

Use these resume format tips to perfect it:

 

Medical Resume Format

 

Expert Hint: Do brag. If you have lots of relevant medical experience under your belt, go for a two-page resume.

2. Write a Medical Resume Objective or Summary

 

Pulse check:

 

Most medical professional resumes get skimmed, then binned.

 

To give yourself a fighting chance—

 

Make sure the parts they skim grab them like an EpiPen.

 

Do it with a resume profile. It comes in three forms: a resume objective (for entry-level candidates) and a resume summary or a summary of qualifications (for seniors). Regardless of how much work experience you have, use this simple formula.

 

Include:

 

  1. An adjective (certified, energetic)
  2. The job title from the online listing (RN, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, CNA...)
  3. Years of experience (1+, 9+)
  4. What you’ll do and who for (deliver expert-level care at PPMC)
  5. Best resume accomplishments(saved $120K through...)

 

See these medical resume examples:

 

Medical Resume Summary—Example

Example
Certified Medical Assistant with 6+ years of experience providing excellent administrative support in hospital and clinic settings. Seeking to deliver expert-level care at PPMC. At Shawna Taylor Medical Center, saved $120K through attention to detail.
Example
Licensed RN with 8+ years of experience providing excellent patient care in busy hospital. Seeking to deliver high-level patient education, wound-dressing, and other health care at PVMC. Slashed RN turnover by 22% at Saint Egregious through improved communication. Helped increase nursing portions of HCAHPS patient scores 25% through revamped patient education.
Example
Skilled nurse practitioner with 4+ years of NP experience and 5 years of medical experience. Seeking to elevate the standard of care at Chalinsky Medical. At ARMC, mentored 8 nurse practitioners and 15 nurses to raise patient exit scores 18% in 14 months.

Ready for discharge.

 

But why do they work?

 

Because they mention the job and facility by name, then show a track record of medical excellence.

 

See those percents and other numbers? They’re proof positive you can do the job.

 

Do that in your medical professional resume, and you’ll get noticed like Charles Richard Drew.

 

Not quite that kind of medical superhero yet?

 

You can still make a full recovery. See these entry-level medical resume samples:

 

Entry-Level Medical Resume Objective

Example
Efficient medical office assistant with associate degree and 1 year of volunteering experience. Skilled in office administration and billing. Received high marks in customer service and patient education classes at Keiser University. Seeking to use my skills to improve patient care at CRMC.
Example
Licensed CNA (GPA 3.8) eager to use skills in patient advocacy and mobility to enhance assisted living care at Hart Glade Retirement Home. As intern in elderly care setting, commended by supervisors for work ethic and attention to detail. Certified in basic life support.

See why those work?

 

They’re both entry-level medical resume examples. But they show real medical skills.

Expert Hint: Create your medical field resume objective last. It’s much easier to pull together all the moving parts of your career when you’ve already done the legwork of writing your other sections.

3. Fine Tune Your Medical Resume Job Description and Skills

 

What skills should you put in a medical resume?

 

Use these sample skills to put on a resume:

 

Medical Resume Skills

 

Medical Skills for Nurses

  • Wound dressing
  • Patient education
  • Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  • Budgeting
  • Record keeping
  • Phlebotomy
  • Recording vital signs
  • Medicine administration
  • Discharge planning
  • Creating plan of care

 

Medical Resume Skills

  • EHR
  • Patient assessment
  • Phlebotomy
  • ICD 10 codes
  • Recording medical histories
  • Inventory and supplies
  • Clinical research
  • Taking vital signs
  • Patient education
  • Billing

 

Medical Skills for Nurse Practitioners

  • Consultation
  • Ordering tests
  • Differential diagnosis
  • Interpreting test results
  • Patient evaluation
  • Monitoring ongoing patient conditions
  • Discharge & admissions
  • Developing policy
  • Prescribing and administering medication
  • Patient education

 

Medical Skills for CNAs

  • Gloving & gowning
  • Patient mobility
  • First aid
  • Foot care of chair bound residents
  • Assisting with toileting
  • Patient care
  • Changing linens
  • Dressing residents
  • Recording vital signs
  • Mouth care

 

Transferable Medical Resume Skills

  • Customer service
  • Time management
  • Problem solving
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Foreign languages
  • Communication
  • Stress management
  • Teamwork
  • Compassion
  • Multitasking
  • Computer skills

 

That’s a lot!

 

Which ones should you put in your medical professional resume?

 

That’s easy.

 

Write a customized resume by tracking down resume keywords in the medical job ad.

 

These medical resume samples show how:

 

The job wants skills in pre-certifying patients, cleaning and stocking examination rooms, HIPAA compliance, and medical equipment inspection.

 

Medical Job Description for a Resume [Sample]

Example

Experience

 

Medical Assistant

Shawna Taylor Medical Center, Sugarland, Texas

2016–2020

  • Provided expert medical assistance in busy hospital, including documentation, filing, patient care, education, and vital sign collection.
  • Pre-certified 25% more patients than average for health care through insurance providers facilitating 15% revenue increase.
  • Cleaned and stocked examination rooms for use by staff.
  • Sent and received patient records as needed, maintaining 100% HIPAA compliance at all times.
  • Assisted with the maintenance, calibration, and inspection of medical equipment according to daily checklist.

Key Achievement:

  • Saved the hospital an estimated $120,000 by spotting four serious malfunctions in medical equipment during inspections.

Here’s another medical resume example. It’s for a job that needs skills in leadership, infection control, HIPAA compliance, and scheduling.

Example

March 2016–July 2019

Joyce Allen Hospital, Katonah, New York

Certified Nursing Assistant

  • Led team of 4+ CNAs when RN manager was absent.
  • Managed other CNA staff to improve infection control and understanding of infectious disorders and best practices for care.
  • Maintained patient privacy and HIPAA compliance by non-medical employees.
  • Educated patients and patient families about conditions and care.
  • Facilitated creation of new scheduling system that slashed errors in medicine administration and increased patient comfort scores.

Key achievement:

  • Implemented new medicine administration controls that cut risk of incorrect medicine delivery by 95%.

Well done.

 

Both of those medical resume examples will get the interview.

 

They stitch your work history to the new job, skill by skill.

 

But what about an entry-level resume for medical jobs?

 

See these entry-level medical field resume examples.

 

The first one is for a medical job that wants data entry, communicating with insurance vendors, and inventory management.

 

Entry-Level Medical Resume Job Description [Sample]

Example

Medical Office Assistant

MedFast Network, Pearland, Texas

2014–2016

  • Worked as office assistant in high-volume medical clinic. Performed patient intake and documentation and assisted nurses and doctors.
  • Welcomed and processed patients on arrival to clinic. Processed and performed data entry on applicable forms with 99.9% accuracy.
  • Transmitted patient forms to insurance vendors. Achieved reimbursements 10% faster than clinic average.
  • Maintained supplies inventory and restocked examination rooms. Worked with vendors to achieve 17% savings on medical supplies.

Now here’s an entry-level medical resume example for a nurse practitioner.

 

The applicant has only worked as a nurse. The NP job he wants needs skills in charting and treatment plan creation.

Example

Nurse

Amesbury Medical Center, Indiana

2015–2020

  • Increased daily number of patients seen by 17% with improved charting process.
  • Collaborated with attending physicians to create treatment plans.

Perfect.

 

Both of those entry-level medical resume samples use high-level medical skills from low-level experience.

 

Do that for a Cedars-Sinai-level medical field resume.

Expert Hint: In the next 10 years, there will be 1.9 million new medical jobs, according to research by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Which ones get the most pay for the least schooling? Dental hygienists and nuclear medicine technologists make $74,000+ with an associate’s degree.

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4. Revitalize Your Education Section

 

Not sure how to list education in a medical professional resume?

 

There’s a trick to it.

 

Tell them your school name and degree title. But—

 

Improve the education section of your resume by adding medical skills proof.

 

See these medical resume samples:

 

Medical Resume Example—Education

Example

Education

 

Sugarland High School

2014

  • Recognized by teachers for work ethic.
Example

Education

 

Master of Science, Nursing

University of Indiana

2015–2017

  • Pursued a passion for healthcare planning and leadership.
  • Conducted master’s project in patient consultation.

 

Bachelor of Science, Nursing

University of Nebraska, 2015

Notice anything?

 

In a medical resume, more recent education needs more details such as relevant coursework. Older education doesn’t matter as much, so clip it short.

 

5. Add More to Your Medical Resume

 

There are about 346,000 new medical jobs each year.

 

Healthcare is growing faster than any other industry.

 

But there are 200,000 new nurses a year. 4,000 nurse practitioners. 90,000 medical assistants. 300,000 CNAs.

 

Get the picture?

 

There are lots  of new medical jobs. But there are more new medical job applicants.

 

You need to hustle to get hired.

 

To give your medical job resume a fighting chance, add bonus material.

 

Select from:

 

See these medical resume examples:

 

Medical Resume—Other Sections

Example

Certifications

 

  • Certified Medical Assistant, AAMA 
  • Basic Life Support, American Red Cross

 

Additional Activities 

 

  • Freelance typist.
  • Volunteer 2x per month for Habitat for Humanity.
  • Ride bike 70+ miles per week as self-care.
Example

Conferences

 

  • 2018 - Pharmacy Assistant National Conference, Spoke on panel about contraindications.
  • 2017 - Pharmacy Technician Stakeholder Consensus Conference.

 

Additional Activities 

 

  • Member, NPTA.
  • Mentor 5 pharmacy assistants in best practices.

Heads up:

 

Those medical resume samples have Virginia-Apgar-worthy details. They’ll stand out in a good way to the hiring team.

Expert Hint: Learn how to write a cover letter for your medical field resume. Make them see your love of healthcare. But also, show your top 2–3 medical achievements that’ll make them notice you.

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Key Points

 

Here’s how to write a medical resume:

  • Start with a good medical resume template. Flesh it out with your best medical skills and accomplishments.
  • Add medical skills like patient assessment or filing. Put some numbers in to show their magnitude.
  • Write a medical resume objective with a mix of your best health care wins.
  • Add extra material like a CPhT certification or conferences you’ve spoken at.
  • Write a good cover letter. Get some inspiration from our physician cover letter sample

 

Got questions on how to write good resumes for medical jobs? Wondering how to put medical experience on a resume? Leave a comment. We’ll be happy to reply!

 

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Tom Gerencer, CPRW
Tom Gerencer is a career advice writer and a resume expert at ResumeLab. Tom has been featured on BBC News, NBC, The Economist, Business Insider, Fast Company, and dozens of other outlets. His insights, commentary, and articles reach over a million readers every month. With inside knowledge of key industry players and in-depth research, Tom helps job seekers with advice across all professions and career stages. Tom holds a degree in English from Colby College.

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