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MBBS Doctor CV example

This example belongs to a doctor whose rotating internship finished in mid-2024 and who has spent the two years since as a junior resident in internal medicine: an MBBS, a completed twelve-month internship, one audit taken to re-measurement and one case report. It is laid out for the way most clinical posts are actually filled, which is against a set of criteria published before applications open.

That changes what the document is for. In structured medical recruitment the CV is usually not the thing being scored - you claim against criteria and then upload evidence for each claim. NHS England's guidance for specialty selection says evidence has to be attached to the domain it pertains to, and that where the evidence submitted does not match the score awarded, the score is adjusted. A CV that cannot be used to find the evidence is a CV that makes that worse rather than better.

It also changes the running order. The 2026 entry criteria for internal medicine training in the UK make full registration at the point of application, a licence to practise on the day the post starts, and an understanding of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality improvement essential. They make experience of research and experience of teaching desirable. Both sets of material belong on the CV; only one of them decides whether the rest is read.

The sample identity here is an Indian graduate, and the criteria quoted are the UK's because they are published in full and can be checked. They are an illustration of how specific published criteria get, not a standard that transfers. Look up the criteria for the post and the country you are applying to before deciding what goes near the top.

Everything below is checkable by someone who has your logbook, your portfolio and your referee's phone number. So the useful question when writing a line is not whether it sounds impressive, but whether the consultant who countersigned that posting would recognise it.

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MBBS Doctor example on the Clinical Classic layout. All details are fictional and shown for demonstration only.

What recruiters expect

Before writing anything, it helps to know what the person reading is checking for. In this field that is usually a short, specific list:

  • Registration and the licence to practise treated as two separate facts, each with its own date. The 2026 internal medicine criteria ask for full registration at the time of application and a current licence on the date the post commences, which is not the same sentence.
  • A stated route to foundation-level competence. Twelve months of post-registration experience with a certificate of readiness to enter specialty training (CREST) is one of the accepted routes in the UK; an internship left as a job title makes the reader guess which route you are on.
  • Months per specialty that can be added up, each tied to a named unit and the consultant who countersigned the posting.
  • One audit or quality improvement cycle described end to end, including the parts you did not do yourself.
  • Research, teaching and postgraduate study present but placed after the essential material, since in the 2026 internal medicine criteria they are desirable rather than essential.
  • A CV that agrees with the application form and with the portfolio, because the three are read together.
  • Nothing patient-identifiable, in the CV or in the evidence attached to it - selection guidance requires uploaded evidence to be redacted.

Recommended CV structure

This is the running order the example uses. It is a starting point rather than a rule, but the order reflects what tends to be read first in this profession.

  1. Profile — Three or four lines positioning you for the role.
  2. Medical Registration — Practising licences and regulator registrations.
  3. Medical Education — Degrees, diplomas and school-leaving qualifications.
  4. Clinical Experience — Paid roles, in reverse chronological order.
  5. Clinical Rotations — Specialty rotations with dates and supervising unit.
  6. Core Clinical Competencies — Grouped skills, for example "Languages" and "Tooling".
  7. Audit & Quality Improvement — Research projects, studies and audits.
  8. Publications — Papers, articles and posters, in your citation style.
  9. Presentations & Conferences — Talks given and conferences attended.
  10. Certifications & Courses — Completed certifications with the issuing body.
  11. Teaching Experience — Lecturing, demonstrating and supervision.
  12. Professional Memberships — Bodies you belong to, with membership numbers where relevant.
  13. Volunteer Experience — Unpaid roles that show relevant skills.
  14. Languages — Spoken languages with CEFR levels.
  15. References — Referees, or a line saying they are available on request.

Sections worth adding

  • Prizes & Awards — Undergraduate prizes and distinctions are still recent at this stage, and some selection processes ask you to evidence academic achievement separately.
  • Additional Training — Use for structured courses that are not certifications - simulation, leadership, teaching skills - where they map to something you are being asked to evidence.

Skills worth including

Grouped rather than listed in one block. Grouping makes a long list readable and shows that you can tell the difference between the things you use daily and the things you have touched.

Clinical Assessment

History taking · Systemic examination · Differential diagnosis · Acutely unwell patient assessment · Escalation and handover (SBAR)

Practical Procedures

Venepuncture and cannulation · Arterial blood gas sampling · Urethral catheterisation · Nasogastric tube insertion · Suturing · ECG interpretation

Ward and Emergency Care

Ward round documentation · Prescribing under supervision · Fluid and electrolyte management · Basic and immediate life support · Triage support

Professional Practice

Informed consent discussions · Breaking bad news · Multidisciplinary team working · Clinical governance · Incident reporting

Academic

Clinical audit · Quality improvement methodology · Literature review · Case report writing · Teaching medical students

Beyond the technical list: Communication with distressed relatives, Working under sustained pressure, Handover discipline, Recognising the limits of your competence, Team working across nursing and allied health. These belong inside your experience bullets, demonstrated, rather than in a list of adjectives.

What every clinical post checks, and what only some of them score

Clinical criteria separate into two kinds. There is a short list an eligibility check has to be able to tick before anyone forms a view of you, and a longer list of academic and course material that is valued when it is there and not a barrier when it is not. Writing the first kind so it can be verified, and the second kind so it maps to something being asked for, produces a shorter CV than trying to make everything look equally important. The split below is a working convention for laying out the document, not an official classification, and the criteria that matter are the published ones for your post.

The core: expected, and tested in interview

  • Registration and licence position — the regulator, the category, the date it was granted, and - separately - whether you will hold a licence to practise on the day the post starts.
  • A clinical record that can be added up — months completed in each specialty since registration, with the unit and the consultant who countersigned it, so a reader can total it without asking you to.
  • Procedures at the level you actually hold them — approximate numbers from the logbook, split between performed independently, performed under supervision and assisted. The logbook is the document that gets asked for, so the CV should already agree with it.
  • Audit and patient safety understood, not just attended — one cycle you can talk through from standard to re-measurement, including which parts were yours. The 2026 internal medicine criteria make understanding of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality improvement essential; a publication is not.
  • Life support certification dated against the post — the awarding body and the expiry month, checked against the month the post begins rather than the closing date of the advert.

The ecosystem: name it when it is true and relevant

  • Publications and case reports — when they exist. Desirable rather than essential in the 2026 internal medicine criteria, so they earn their place below the registration and clinical record rather than above them.
  • Teaching, and training in how to teach — when you have run something rather than helped with it. Say what the session was, who attended and how often, and add feedback data only if you actually collected it.
  • Membership examinations and postgraduate study — name the part and the sitting - passed, booked or planned - rather than the qualification as a whole. A booked date is information; "working towards" is not.
  • Specialty-specific exposure — when it is the specialty you are applying to. Six weeks in the specialty you want is worth more space than six months in one you are leaving behind.
  • Courses beyond life support — when the course maps to something you are being asked to evidence. A list of certificates that maps to nothing reads as a collection of receipts.
  • Languages and community work — when the post serves a population where it matters, or where the work produced something you can describe - a referral pathway, a follow-up list, a translated leaflet.

If the case report is on the first page while the registration line still leaves a reader unsure whether you can legally start, the document is ordered for the wrong reader. The essential criteria are the ones someone has to tick before any of the rest is looked at.

Example professional summary

Three or four lines, positioned for the role rather than describing your personality. Two versions you can adapt:

MBBS (2023) with the twelve-month rotating internship complete and two years of post-registration experience in internal medicine, currently holding the medical admissions rota one night in five. Permanently registered with the State Medical Council since July 2024, provisionally registered for the internship year before that. One audit taken to re-measurement (insulin prescribing and glucose documentation, 54% to 88%), one published case report, and weekly bedside teaching for final-year students. Applying for a training post in Internal Medicine.
Foundation-level doctor, internship complete and eighteen months post-registration, with clinical time split between acute medicine and the medical admissions unit. Registered and licensed to practise in India; PLAB Part 1 passed, Part 2 booked. Interests in inpatient diabetes care and clinical audit, with one completed cycle and one single-cycle audit reported as such.

Writing your experience

The difference between a CV that gets a call and one that does not is almost always in the bullet points. Each pair below shows a real rewrite of the kind of line that appears on most CVs in this field.

Weak

Registered with the medical council.

Stronger

Permanent registration as a medical practitioner with the State Medical Council since July 2024, on completion of the rotating internship; registration number on request. No current UK registration: PLAB Part 1 passed in March 2026, Part 2 booked for July 2026.

Two facts a reader has to establish separately - where you are registered now, and your position on the registration route for the post you are applying to - written so neither has to be inferred.

Weak

Completed a 12-month rotating internship.

Stronger

Completed the twelve-month rotating internship from July 2023 to June 2024, permanently registered from July 2024, and hold twenty-six months of post-registration clinical experience as at September 2026. The internship logbook is countersigned by the responsible consultant for each posting and can be produced on request.

Names what the internship evidences and who can confirm it. Eligibility routes are usually expressed in months of post-registration experience, so the total is worth stating rather than leaving to be worked out from dates.

Weak

Part of the team that audited insulin prescribing.

Stronger

Designed and led both cycles of an audit of insulin prescribing and capillary glucose documentation (n=90 admissions), agreed the standard with the diabetes team, and presented the re-audit at the departmental clinical meeting; data collection in the second cycle was shared with two interns I briefed.

States the role precisely in both directions, including help received. A claimed contribution is checked against the evidence attached to it, and the version that survives that check is the one that says who did what.

Weak

Keen to pursue a career in Internal Medicine.

Stronger

Internal medicine is where the last two years have gone: the medical admissions rota one night in five, the insulin audit and its re-measurement, a published case report in endocrinology, and MRCP Part 1 booked for January 2027.

A stated interest and an evidenced one read identically until someone asks what sits behind the sentence. Four items, all dated and all verifiable, answer that in advance.

Weak

Attended departmental meetings and presented cases.

Stronger

Presented twice at the weekly mortality and morbidity meeting, including a case where the delay was in my own documentation. The change agreed at that meeting - a same-day senior review flag for patients transferred from the emergency department - is now part of the unit's admission checklist.

Attendance is not contribution. Naming a change that outlasted the meeting is checkable, and owning the error rather than someone else's reads as clinical governance rather than blame.

Taken from the example

The sample CV for this profession is fully written. A few sections from it, so you can see the level of specificity that works:

Experience

Junior Resident (Non-Academic), Internal Medicine, Cauvery General Hospital

  • Hold the medical admissions bleep one night in five: first assessment, initial plan and escalation to the registrar, with ten to fourteen new patients on a typical shift.
  • Responsible for fourteen to eighteen inpatients on the post-take list, including the investigation plan and the discharge letter for each.
  • Presented twice at the weekly mortality and morbidity meeting; the same-day senior review flag for transfers from the emergency department came out of the second.
  • Briefed and supervised two interns collecting data for the second cycle of the insulin audit.

Rotations

  • General Medicine — Three months, 62 on-call clerkings recorded in the logbook, including diabetic ketoacidosis, community-acquired pneumonia and acute coronary syndrome presentations.
  • General Surgery — Three months on the emergency surgical take: clerking, pre-operative preparation and consent documentation for consultant countersignature.
  • Paediatrics — Three months clerking paediatric admissions, most often bronchiolitis, acute gastroenteritis and febrile illness, with weight-based fluid and drug calculations checked by the registrar before prescribing.

Audit and research

  • Two-cycle audit: insulin prescribing and capillary glucose documentation — Standard: unit policy requires four-times-daily capillary glucose and a written correction scale for every inpatient prescribed insulin.
  • Single-cycle audit: follow-up after the rural screening camp — Traced 128 attendees referred from three camps with a first raised blood pressure reading; 47 had attended the health centre within eight weeks.

Education

  • MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences — First Class

Certifications and registration

  • Registered Medical Practitioner (permanent registration) — State Medical Council
  • Provisional registration, held for the internship year — State Medical Council
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider — American Heart Association
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider — American Heart Association
  • Good Clinical Practice (GCP) — NIDA Clinical Trials Network

Common mistakes

An internship that never says what it evidences

Twelve months of rotating internship is a qualification-level fact, not just a job. Say that it is complete, give the dates, and name what it evidences for the post you are applying to - post-registration experience, a countersigned procedure log, exposure in specific specialties. A reader checking eligibility should not have to infer any of that.

Registration written as one fact when the reader needs two

Being on a register and holding a licence to practise are different, and they can be asked for on different dates: the 2026 internal medicine criteria want full registration at application and a current licence when the post commences. One line that says "registered" leaves an essential criterion unanswered.

A rotation entry that says where you were, not what you held

Specialty, unit and dates place you. They do not say whether you carried a list, clerked the take, ran the discharge letters or watched. Name the responsibility, then the supervision level it sat under, and keep both consistent with what your referee would say.

Desirable material presented as if it were essential

A case report at the top of page one, with the registration position on page two, inverts the order the criteria are checked in. Research and teaching are worth real space - after the material that decides whether you are eligible at all.

A CV that no longer matches the form or the portfolio

Structured selection verifies what you claim against what you upload, and adjusts the score where the two disagree. Procedure numbers rounded up in one place and not the other, or an audit described as led here and supported there, is the kind of mismatch that gets found.

Clean CV, unredacted evidence

The document you upload to support a claim is part of the application. An audit slide with a hospital number on it, or a logbook page with a patient sticker, undoes a carefully anonymised CV. Redact before attaching, and describe presentations generally enough that no single patient is recognisable.

ATS considerations

Applicant tracking systems behave differently by sector, and generic advice is often wrong for a given field. These points are specific to mbbs doctor applications:

  • Medical recruitment often runs through a structured application form rather than CV parsing, but the CV is still read directly and often pasted into a field. Keep it single column and avoid tables, which do not survive being pasted.
  • Write both "MBBS" and "Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery" somewhere in the file, because international readers and filters search for the expanded form.
  • Spell out specialty names in full: "Obstetrics and Gynaecology" rather than "O&G", and "Internal Medicine" rather than a local grade abbreviation.
  • Write the registration line in words a filter can match: the regulator's full name, the category of registration, and the year. Where your regulator publishes a searchable register, giving the number saves the reader a step.
  • Give life support certifications with the awarding body and the expiry month. The expiry is the part that dates the claim, and a post usually starts months after the advert closes.

The Minimal ATS layout is built for this, and the ATS guide covers what parsers do to a file in more detail.

Guides that go deeper

This page applies general CV advice to one field. The full treatment of each part is here:

  • How to Write a Medical CV — Medical CVs follow their own conventions. Applying commercial CV advice to one is the fastest way to be marked down.
  • How to Describe Work Experience — The difference between listing duties and demonstrating impact, and a repeatable way to rewrite any weak bullet point.
  • How to List Skills on a CV — Group them, be specific, and cut anything you would not want to be interviewed on for ten minutes.
  • How to Make an ATS-Friendly CV — What applicant tracking systems do to your file, the four failures that matter, and which of the usual claims about them anybody can actually stand behind.

Questions about mbbs doctor CVs

Does the internship go under education or under experience?
Under experience, with a line in the education entry saying that the degree was awarded after it. A rotating internship is paid clinical work carrying real responsibility, and filing it under education buries the months a reader needs in order to total your post-registration experience. Keep the individual postings in their own rotations section underneath, so the internship reads as one post with countable parts rather than four unrelated jobs.
How should I write the registration line if I am applying to another country?
As three separate statements, because a reader is checking three different things. Where you are registered now and in what category; your exact position on the registration route for the destination, including examinations passed, booked or outstanding; and your right to work, which is a separate question from registration - NHS careers guidance is explicit that registration with a regulator does not give you the right to work in the UK. Leaving any of the three to be guessed at slows an application down more than an incomplete route does.
My audit is a single cycle and I did not lead it. Is it worth including?
Yes, described exactly as that. What the 2026 internal medicine criteria treat as essential is an understanding of audit, clinical risk management, evidence-based practice, patient safety and quality improvement - not authorship of a completed loop. A single cycle where you can explain the standard, what you measured, what you found and what you would do next demonstrates the understanding. Saying you led it when you collected data for it does not, and that is the version that gets checked.
If research and teaching are only "desirable", is there any point in them?
Yes, but not at the expense of the essential material. In the 2026 internal medicine entry criteria, experience of research, experience of teaching, evidence of postgraduate study and training in teaching are all listed as desirable, which means they separate applicants who have already cleared the essential bar. The practical consequence is about placement rather than inclusion: keep them, and keep them below the registration position and the clinical record.
The application form asks for everything my CV says. Why send both?
Because they do different jobs. The form is where claims are made and scored, often as a verified self-assessment with evidence uploaded against each domain; the CV is the continuous account that makes those claims locatable and consistent. Guidance for specialty selection says only enough evidence to justify the score should be provided, and that where the evidence does not match the score claimed the score is adjusted, so a CV that quietly disagrees with the form costs you marks rather than adding any.
How do I list an observership, an elective or a two-week attachment?
Separately from your posts, and labelled for what it was. An observership is not clinical responsibility, and a reader who discovers that in the interview rather than on the page will re-read everything else more carefully. Give the unit, the dates, the length in weeks and one line on what you actually did - observed, assisted, or presented a case - and group short attachments together so they do not pad the experience section.

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