Dermatologist CV Examples & Writing Guide

This is a condensed two-page CV for a mid-career consultant dermatologist in the NHS with some private practice. The doctor, the hospitals and the numbers are invented but realistic. A medical staffing team or a private hospital's medical director scans the top block for GMC status, Specialist Register entry and procedure mix, then goes straight to activity.

In the UK every doctor sends a CV, but there are two kinds. The full medical CV has no length limit and lists everything: training posts, registration, exams, publications, presentations, teaching, audit and quality improvement, management roles. NHS consultant posts are usually applied for through an online application form (NHS Jobs or Trac) with the full CV attached or requested for the appointments committee. Keep one master CV and cut a shorter version when the job calls for it.

• Registration and training status. GMC registration with a licence to practise, entry on the Specialist Register in dermatology (or your CCT date if you are within six months of it, when you can apply for consultant posts), and your last revalidation. Write the years.
• Your clinical mix. Roughly what share of your work is medical, surgical and cosmetic. A department hiring for busy general clinics does not want a CV that reads as 90% aesthetics, and the reverse is also true.
• Activity. Clinical sessions a week, attendances a year, biopsies and excisions, Mohs cases, and the programmed activities in your job plan. Departments are buying capacity.
• Practical availability. Start date, whether you need a visa (many overseas doctors come on a Health and Care Worker visa), and whether you will join the on-call rota or cover outreach clinics. Put this at the end, not the top, but do put it somewhere.

“The dermatology CVs that stall are the ones where the training dates do not line up or the registration status is vague. Credentialing will find it anyway, so tell me straight: on the Specialist Register in what year, licence to practise current or not, and any gap explained in one line. Then show me your daily volume, because that is what the practice is really buying.”

A medical CV does not always need a personal statement, but four or five lines at the top help when a non-medical manager screens first. Keep it factual and lead with your registration and grade.

Almost every dermatologist "diagnoses and treats skin conditions". That line tells a reader nothing. Give the volume, the case mix and the outcome you can defend.

This is the part medical staffing and the appointments panel read twice. Use exact names and years, and never round a date to hide a gap. A three-month gap with a one-line explanation is fine; an unexplained one is a phone call you do not want.

1. 1GMC 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.
2. 2Specialist Register: "Specialist Register (Dermatology) since 2018" 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; you can be interviewed for consultant posts within six months of it.
3. 3Exams: MRCP(UK) with the year, and the Specialty Certificate Examination in Dermatology. Special interests such as paediatric dermatology, skin surgery or dermatopathology are not separate registrations in the UK, so describe the training and experience behind them instead.
4. 4Fellowship: give the type (for example a post-CCT Mohs micrographic surgery fellowship), the hospital and the dates.
5. 5Training posts: dermatology higher specialty training (ST3 onwards, usually four years) follows the Foundation Programme and core or internal medicine training with MRCP(UK), so show each stage with dates and the region.
6. 6Memberships: British Association of Dermatologists, British Society for Dermatological Surgery for skin surgeons, and your regional dermatology society. Add FRCP after your name only if you have been elected a Fellow of a Royal College of Physicians.

Group the list so a reader can see the shape of your practice at a glance. Only claim procedures you would be happy to do next Monday.

• Medical dermatology: acne and rosacea, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, hidradenitis suppurativa, autoimmune blistering disease, cutaneous lupus, alopecia, drug eruptions, complex wound care.

• Diagnostics and procedures: dermoscopy, shave, punch and excisional biopsy, curettage and cautery, cryotherapy, intralesional injection, nail surgery, patch testing, skin scrapings for mycology, narrowband UVB phototherapy, photodynamic therapy.

• Surgical and cosmetic: excision with flap and graft repair, Mohs micrographic surgery if fellowship trained, botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, chemical peels, pulsed dye, fractional and hair removal lasers, sclerotherapy.

• Systems and administrative: Epic or other electronic patient records, e-RS and Advice and Guidance, NICE criteria and funding pathways for biologics, the MHRA isotretinoin Pregnancy Prevention Programme, BADBIR registration, clinical coding, supervision of specialty doctors and nurse specialists, teledermatology.

A dermatologist's full medical CV runs four to six pages early in a consultant career and can pass ten pages in academic medicine. That is normal and nobody will hold it against you. What matters is the order.

• Order for NHS and private consultant posts: contact, personal statement, registration and qualifications, clinical experience, procedures, education and training, audit and quality improvement, then publications and presentations at the end.
• Order for clinical academic posts: education and training first, then appointments, research funding, publications, teaching, management and leadership; clinical activity moves down.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status, no full home address. This is the UK standard.
• Reverse chronological, month and year for every training post and job, no gaps left silent.
• Send a PDF named for yourself, for example raghunathan-cv-2026.pdf. Medical staffing teams file dozens of these a week.
• For industry or medical affairs roles, cut to two pages, translate clinical activity into project and leadership language, and keep only the five most relevant publications.