Gynecologist (OB-GYN) Resume Examples & Writing Guide

Both, and they are not interchangeable. A physician CV is the long document: every position, every publication, every presentation, every committee, running to four or ten pages. It is what a hospital credentialing office, an academic department and a medical staff office expect.

A two-page physician resume is what a recruiter for a private group, a hospital-employed practice or a locum agency reads first. It is a summary of the CV, arranged around your clinical profile: training, board status, volumes, procedures, call and what you are looking for. Most gynecologists need both, built from the same facts.

The example below is the two-page version. Keep a full CV in reserve and send it when credentialing asks.

This sample is for a general OB-GYN about nine years out of residency, working in a hospital-employed group with a minimally invasive surgical focus. The physician, the hospitals and the schools are invented. Use the structure and put your own training, volumes and privileges in.

OB-GYN recruiting is a matching problem, not a ranking problem. The recruiter is trying to work out whether you fit a specific practice, and they look at five things.

• Credential status. MD or DO, ACGME-accredited residency, ABOG board certified or board eligible, active unrestricted license, current DEA. If any of these is in progress, say so with a date rather than leaving it out.
• Scope. Do you still do obstetrics, or are you gynecology only? That single fact sorts you into completely different searches, so it belongs in your first line.
• Volumes. Deliveries per year, surgical cases per year, clinic volume, panel size. Without these a recruiter cannot tell whether you match the group's needs.
• Surgical mix. Open, vaginal, laparoscopic, robotic. Groups hire for a specific gap, often minimally invasive capability or the ability to cover complex benign surgery.
• Call and coverage. Your current call ratio and what you are willing to take. Being explicit here saves everyone three phone calls.

“I can read past a plain format, but I cannot read past a missing number. Tell me deliveries a year, surgical cases a year, your call ratio and whether you still do OB. If you are the surgeon they need, that is four lines and the interview is booked. Most OB-GYN resumes bury all four on page two.”

Four or five lines at the top. Board status, years in practice, scope, volumes, surgical focus, then what you are looking for. Physicians are one of the few groups where stating the job you want is genuinely useful, because recruiters are matching to open slots.

Numbers on a physician resume are not marketing. They are how a group works out whether you can carry the practice they need covered. Use ranges, use the same period, and never report a figure you cannot defend in an interview.

This is the section that gets read most carefully and misstated most often. Be exact, and give dates.

• Board status. Write "Board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG)" with the year of initial certification, and note that you are participating in continuing certification. If you are board eligible, say so and give the date of your scheduled examination.
• Subspecialty. ABOG also certifies subspecialties including Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Gynecologic Oncology, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Complex Family Planning, and Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. Only claim a subspecialty if you completed the fellowship and the board process.
• FACOG. Fellowship in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is a membership designation, not a board certification. Use it after your name if you hold it, but never in place of ABOG certification.
• Licensure. List each state license with its status and expiry, and any pending applications with the submission date. Note if you hold an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact letter of qualification.
• DEA registration and any state controlled substance registration, with current status.
• Life support cards: BLS, ACLS and NRP for anyone doing obstetrics. ALSO is common and worth listing.
• Privileges. Name the procedures you currently hold privileges for, especially robotic console privileges, because credentialing will ask for them anyway.
• Malpractice history. Do not put it on the resume, but have the dates and outcomes ready. It comes up in the first credentialing conversation.

Coming out of residency you have no practice volumes, so the case log does the work instead. Recruiters expect this and read it closely.

1. 1Lead with your program, the year you finish and your board eligibility date. Include the ABOG examination timing if you know it.
2. 2Give your residency case log by category: vaginal deliveries, cesarean deliveries, major gynecologic procedures, then break out laparoscopic and robotic numbers. Use the totals from your ACGME case log, not estimates.
3. 3Name the procedures you are comfortable performing independently, and be honest about the ones you would want proctoring for. Groups respect this and it protects you.
4. 4List chief resident duties, quality projects, committee work and teaching. These predict how you will behave in a group.
5. 5Include research, posters and publications, but keep them to a short list on the resume and put the full list on the CV.
6. 6State what you want: practice type, group size, obstetric support, call ratio, and geography. Recruiters are matching, not judging.

• Two pages for the resume, however long the CV needs to be. Do not try to squeeze a CV into two pages by deleting dates.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status and no personal details. This is standard for US applications, though gynecologist CV templates from India, the Gulf and parts of Europe usually include them.
• Put credentials, licensure and volumes on page one. Publications and committees go on page two or on the CV.
• Use full month and year dates everywhere and account for every gap. Credentialing verifies the entire timeline.
• Include your NPI if you are comfortable doing so; recruiters often look it up anyway.
• Send a PDF. Name it lastname-firstname-obgyn-2026.pdf so it survives a recruiter's folder.

Mirror the language of the posting and of your specialty: obstetrics and gynecology, OB-GYN, board certified, ABOG, ACGME, FACOG, NTSV cesarean rate, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, laparoscopic hysterectomy, robotic surgery, colposcopy, LEEP, hysteroscopy, endometrial ablation, IUD placement, prenatal care, high-risk obstetrics, call ratio, hospital-employed, RVU. Spell out abbreviations the first time so both versions are searchable.