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General practitioner resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a general practitioner resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Start with your current job title, or the one you aspire to. Are you a passionate manager? A skilled analyst? It's a good starting point.

Step 2: Next put your years of experience in general practitioner-related roles.

Step 3: Now is the time to put your biggest accomplishment or something you are professionally proud of.

Step 4: Read over what you have written. It should be 2-4 sentences. Your goal is to summarize your experience, not recite your resume.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some general practitioner interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some general practitioner interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a general practitioner resume:

  • Patients
  • Diagnosis
  • Internal Medicine
  • Outpatient Clinic
  • Emergency Room
  • Oral Surgery
  • Medical Care
  • Primary Care
  • Patient Care
  • Physical Exams
  • Health Education
  • Medical History
  • Suturing
  • Surgical Procedures
  • Laboratory Tests
  • EKG
  • Mental Health
  • Diabetes
  • Diagnostic Tests
  • Disease Prevention
  • Hypertension
  • ECG
  • Vital Signs
  • Diagnostic Procedures
  • Emergency Care
  • TB
  • Gynecology
  • Obstetrics
  • Real Estate
  • Medical Services

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write general practitioner experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are examples from great general practitioner resumes:

Work history example #1

Volunteer

Boys & Girls Club

  • Planned daily activities Supervised Youth Providing mentoring and counseling
  • Supervised, mentored, and tutored elementary students with reading and mathematics.
  • Helped elementary school students with reading and mathematics homework after school.
  • Fostered effective, ongoing communication with parents by providing verbal and written reports on children's activities.
  • Prepared food in the kitchen Facilitated crafts and music Helped with summer Bible School either in kitchen or as group leader

Work history example #2

General Practitioner

Rush University Medical Center

  • Collaborated routinely with senior staff members across sub-specialties of gynecologic medicine.
  • Focused on providing care directed toward the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases and disability.
  • Trained all users in the use of Practice Management and EMR system.
  • Commended by superiors for handling difficult situations involving both patients and their families.
  • Completed 18 months of family medicine residency training with emphasis on OB care and ED rotations in level one trauma center.

Work history example #3

Resident Doctor

LAWRENCE HOSPITAL CENTER

  • Trained and certified in CPR and AED.
  • Participated in ACLS codes and other procedures including central line placement, lumbar puncture, and paracentesis.
  • Excelled in management and maintenance of EMR (Electronic Medical Record) System.
  • Completed three year residency in Emergency Medicine at 100K annual visit Emergency Department and Level I trauma center.
  • Implemented EMR solely in a huge practice.

Work history example #4

General Practitioner

Mesquite Community Hospital

  • Participated in over 30 vaginal deliveries either assisting or performing.
  • Maximized diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases and injuries that commonly occur in the general population.
  • Worked as a general practitioner by treating common diseases like Diarrhea, Malaria, Typhoid Fever, Hypertension, Diabetes etc.
  • Focused on providing care directed toward the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases and disability.
  • Received credit for psychiatry PGY-1 year from the APA for initial intern training in OB/GYN residency.

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Add an education section to your resume

The education section should display your highest degree first.

Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.

If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.

Here are some examples of good education entries from general practitioner resumes:

Doctoral Degree in medicine

National University, North Torrey Pines Road, LA Jolla, CA

2006 - 2009

Doctoral Degree in medicine

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2013 - 2016

Highlight your general practitioner certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on general practitioner resumes:

  1. Internal Medicine
  2. Medical Assistant
  3. Registered Medical Assistant
  4. Certification in General Surgery
  5. Pediatrics
  6. Family Medicine
  7. Obstetrics and Gynecology
  8. Certified in Public Health (CPH)

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