Gynaecologist (O&G) CV Examples & Writing Guide

Both, and they are not interchangeable. The full medical CV is the long document: every post, every publication, every presentation, every audit and committee, running to four or ten pages. It is what NHS medical staffing, an appointments committee and a university department expect.

A two-page CV is what a locum agency, a private hospital's medical director or a recruiter reads first. It is a summary of the full CV, arranged around your clinical profile: training, registration, activity, procedures, on-call and what you are looking for. Most gynaecologists need both, built from the same facts. NHS consultant posts usually also need an online application form (NHS Jobs or Trac).

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

This sample is for a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist about nine years after CCT, working in an NHS district general hospital with a minimal access surgery interest. The doctor, the hospitals and the universities are invented. Use the structure and put your own training, activity and practising privileges in.

O&G recruitment is a matching problem, not a ranking problem. The reader is trying to work out whether you fit a specific post and job plan, and they look at five things.

• Registration and training status. Primary medical qualification, GMC registration with a licence to practise, Specialist Register entry or CCT date, MRCOG. 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 gynaecology only? That single fact sorts you into completely different posts, so it belongs in your first line.
• Activity. Births a year, operations a year, outpatient sessions and patients a session. Without these a reader cannot tell whether you match the job plan.
• Surgical mix. Open, vaginal, laparoscopic, robotic. Departments hire for a specific gap, often minimal access capability or the ability to take on complex benign surgery.
• On-call. Your current rota frequency, whether it is resident or non-resident, 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 births a year, operations a year, your on-call frequency and whether you still do obstetrics. If you are the surgeon they need, that is four lines and the interview is booked. Most O&G CVs bury all four on page two.”

Four or five lines at the top. Registration and grade, years in post, scope, activity, surgical focus, then what you are looking for. Doctors are one of the few groups where stating the job you want is genuinely useful, because recruiters are matching to specific posts.

Numbers on a doctor's CV are not marketing. They are how a department works out whether you can deliver the job plan they need covered. Use ranges, use the same period, and never report a figure you cannot defend at interview.

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

• GMC registration. Write "Full registration with a licence to practise" and "Specialist Register (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)" with the year, plus your last revalidation. If you are still in training, give your CCT date; you can apply for consultant posts within six months of it.
• Subspecialty. RCOG subspecialty training covers areas such as maternal and fetal medicine, gynaecological oncology, reproductive medicine and urogynaecology. Only claim a subspecialty if you completed the approved subspecialty training programme.
• MRCOG and FRCOG. MRCOG is the examination-based membership; FRCOG is awarded later by election. Use FRCOG after your name only if you have been elected, and never in place of your registration status.
• Advanced Training Skills Modules (ATSMs). List each one with its title and the year you completed it, because they show the special interests you trained in.
• Specialist Register route. Most consultants enter through CCT; doctors who trained elsewhere may have joined through the portfolio pathway (formerly CESR). Say which.
• Life support and emergencies training: BLS or ALS, Newborn Life Support for anyone doing obstetrics, and multi-professional obstetric emergencies training such as PROMPT. List the dates.
• Practising privileges. If you do private work, name the independent hospitals and the procedures you hold privileges for, especially robotic console privileges, because the medical advisory committee will ask for them anyway.
• Claims and indemnity. Do not put claims history on the CV, but have dates and outcomes ready. NHS work is covered by NHS indemnity; private practice needs your own medical defence cover, and private hospitals ask about it early.

As a registrar approaching CCT you have no consultant activity, so the logbook does the work instead. Appointments panels expect this and read it closely.

1. 1Lead with your training programme, your CCT date and MRCOG. Include any ATSMs you have completed or are finishing.
2. 2Give your logbook by category: vaginal and assisted births, caesarean sections, major gynaecological procedures, then break out laparoscopic and robotic numbers. Use the totals from your RCOG e-portfolio, not estimates.
3. 3Name the procedures you are comfortable performing independently, and be honest about the ones you would want mentoring for. Departments respect this and it protects you.
4. 4List rota lead duties, quality improvement projects, audits, committee work and teaching. These predict how you will behave in a department.
5. 5Include research, posters and publications, but keep them to a short list on the short CV and put the full list on the full medical CV.
6. 6State what you want: type and size of unit, resident consultant cover, on-call frequency and region. Recruiters are matching, not judging.

• Two pages for the short CV, however long the full medical CV needs to be. Do not try to squeeze a full CV into two pages by deleting dates.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status and no personal details. This is standard for UK applications, though gynaecologist CV templates from India, the Gulf and parts of Europe usually include them.
• Put registration, qualifications and activity on page one. Publications and committees go on page two or on the full CV.
• Use full month and year dates everywhere and account for every gap. Pre-employment checks cover the entire timeline.
• Give your GMC number on request rather than printing it on every copy; recruiters can look you up on the online register anyway.
• Send a PDF. Name it lastname-firstname-og-cv-2026.pdf so it survives a recruiter's folder.

Mirror the language of the advert, the person specification and your specialty: obstetrics and gynaecology, O&G, consultant, GMC Specialist Register, CCT, MRCOG, ATSM, Robson group 1 caesarean rate, minimal access gynaecological surgery, laparoscopic hysterectomy, robotic surgery, colposcopy, LLETZ, hysteroscopy, endometrial ablation, coil fitting, antenatal care, high-risk obstetrics, labour ward, on-call rota, job plan, programmed activities. Spell out abbreviations the first time so both versions are searchable.