Cardiologist CV Examples & Writing Guide

For almost every cardiology post in the UK, the document you send is a full medical CV, usually alongside an online application form (NHS Jobs or Trac for NHS posts). Trusts, private hospital groups and independent practices expect a full record: education, training posts, GMC registration, Specialist Register entry, procedure experience, publications, presentations, teaching, audit and management roles. Three to six pages is normal, and a mid-career interventionist may run longer.

There are two exceptions. Industry roles (medical devices, pharmaceutical medical affairs) and some management or health-tech positions want a two-page CV written like a business document. If you are applying to those, keep a separate, shorter file and lead with outcomes rather than with training.

This is the opening section of a CV for a consultant cardiologist six years after CCT. The name and the hospitals are invented. It is trimmed for the page: a real medical CV would continue with publications, presentations, teaching, audit and committee work.

Two different readers look at your CV. The clinical lead is trying to match you to the department's job plan and rota. Medical staffing is looking for anything that will slow down pre-employment checks.

• Registration and training status. GMC registration with a licence to practise, Specialist Register entry in cardiology (or your CCT date, since you can apply for consultant posts within six months of it), MRCP(UK) and your last revalidation. Dates matter, because they are checked.
• Training posts and dates. Foundation, core or internal medicine training and cardiology specialty training, with exact start and end months. Medical staffing will verify every one of them.
• Procedure and imaging volumes. Job plans and, in private practice, practising privileges are agreed by procedure, so a hospital wants numbers first. Diagnostic angiograms, percutaneous coronary interventions, device implants, ablations, echoes reported, transoesophageal studies, perfusion studies.
• Gaps. Any unexplained month in your training or practice history will be questioned. Put a one-line explanation for research years out of programme, parental leave, visa waits or relocation rather than leaving a hole.
• On-call expectations. Departments appoint to fill an on-call rota. Saying what you have carried, such as one in seven, is directly useful.
• Visa status. If you need sponsorship (many overseas doctors come on a Health and Care Worker visa), say so plainly near the top. Recruiters filter on it and a late disclosure wastes everyone's time.

• General and non-invasive cardiology. Lead with imaging volumes and accreditations: British Society of Echocardiography accreditation for echo, and the relevant British or European accreditation for nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT or cardiac MRI. Add clinic volume and caseload.
• Interventional cardiology. Lead with your interventional training (usually an interventional fellowship) and your case volumes: diagnostic angiograms, percutaneous coronary interventions as primary operator, radial versus femoral access, complex cases, and structural procedures if you do them. Add primary PCI on-call for ST-elevation myocardial infarction and your door-to-balloon performance.
• Cardiac electrophysiology and devices. Lead with your electrophysiology training and any EHRA certification, device implant volumes (pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronisation), ablation volumes by type, and lead extraction if you do it.
• Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology. Lead with your heart failure subspecialty training, mechanical circulatory support experience, transplant assessment and management, and your role in a multidisciplinary team.
• Academic cardiology. Publications, research funding, teaching and committee service move up. A full bibliography in a consistent citation style is expected, and your role on each paper should be visible.

A short personal statement at the top of a medical CV is optional but increasingly common, and it helps a recruiter place you fast. Three or four lines, registration and grade first.

• GMC registration. Full registration with a licence to practise, the year, and your last revalidation date. The GMC number is public on the online register, so give it on request rather than printing it on every copy.
• Specialist Register entry: "Specialist Register (Cardiology) since 2020" and the route, either a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) or the portfolio pathway (formerly CESR). If you are still in training, write "CCT expected" and the date.
• Exams: MRCP(UK) with the year, and the cardiology knowledge exam passed in training. Interventional cardiology, electrophysiology and heart failure are not separate registrations in the UK, so describe the subspecialty training, fellowship and logged experience behind them.
• Imaging accreditation. British Society of Echocardiography accreditation in transthoracic or transoesophageal echo, with the reaccreditation date, and the equivalent accreditation for nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT or cardiac MRI if you report them.
• Life support. Advanced Life Support (Resuscitation Council UK), and ATLS or paediatric life support if your setting requires them.
• Society membership. British Cardiovascular Society and subspecialty societies such as the British Society of Echocardiography, British Cardiovascular Intervention Society or British Heart Rhythm Society. Add FRCP after your name only if you have been elected a Fellow of a Royal College of Physicians.
• Training details. Programme name, region and exact months for foundation, core and specialty training.

Clinical skills belong on the CV too, but they should read as a list of what you do rather than as adjectives. Name the procedures and the imaging modalities you would put in a job plan or a practising privileges application, and nothing you would not be comfortable doing in your first week.

1. 1Start the CV in your penultimate training year. You can apply for consultant posts within six months of your CCT date, and many registrars are interviewed well before they finish.
2. 2Pull your logbook and e-portfolio early and put real numbers on the page. Diagnostic angiograms, echoes reported, transoesophageal studies, stress tests, devices, ablations, whatever applies to your track.
3. 3State your training status plainly: CCT date, MRCP(UK) and specialty exam passed, and your latest ARCP outcome. Medical staffing needs this to plan pre-employment checks.
4. 4State your GMC registration and licence to practise, and note any application in progress. Registration timelines can decide which offer you can accept.
5. 5Include rota lead roles, teaching, committee work and quality improvement projects. These distinguish otherwise identical registrar CVs.
6. 6If you need visa sponsorship, say so near the top. It is not a weakness, but a late disclosure reads as one.
7. 7Keep a full publication list with your author position visible. Do not list manuscripts in preparation as though they were accepted.

• Three to six pages is normal, longer in academic medicine. Do not compress a medical CV to one page; it reads as though training is missing.
• Reverse chronological within each section, with exact months and years. Medical staffing verifies dates and gaps.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status, no personal details. UK employers do not ask for them, and including them creates problems for the hiring side.
• Use a plain, single-column layout. Trusts and private hospital groups use applicant tracking systems, and medical recruiters forward CVs as attachments constantly.
• Mirror the advert's words where they are true: non-invasive, interventional, structural, electrophysiology, heart failure, echocardiography, nuclear, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI, primary PCI, on-call rota, programmed activities.
• Keep a separate two-page CV for industry, medical affairs or management roles, written around outcomes and programmes rather than around training.
• Save as a PDF named lastname-firstname-CV-2026.pdf and update it every six months.

“Registration, licence to practise and volumes on page one, in that order. Half the cardiology CVs I get bury the procedure numbers on page four, and medical staffing is the one who has to go find them. Put them where a busy clinical lead can see them and your file moves a month faster.”