Pediatrician Resume & CV Examples and Writing Guide
A pediatrician resume is read for four facts first: board status with the American Board of Pediatrics, active state license and DEA registration, the setting and volume you practice at (panel size, visits per day, newborn or inpatient coverage), and your call commitment. Everything else supports those. Below is a full sample plus copyable summaries and bullets.
Pediatrician resume example (US, general pediatrics)
This sample is for a board-certified general pediatrician eight years out of residency who works in an outpatient group with newborn nursery coverage. Name, practices and schools are invented. A full academic CV runs longer than this and adds publications, teaching and grants; the version below is the two-page format most private groups, health systems and community health centers want with an application.
Anika Raval, MD, FAAP
General Pediatrician, Board Certified (ABP)
Raleigh, NC · (919) 555-0184 · a.raval.md@email.com · NPI 1234567890 · NC license active
Summary
Board-certified general pediatrician with 8 years of post-residency practice, currently carrying a panel of about 1,900 patients from newborn through 18 years in a five-provider outpatient group with level I newborn nursery coverage. Sees 22–26 patients a day, runs Spanish-language visits without an interpreter, and led a practice immunization push that took the 24-month combined series rate from 71% to 88%. Epic user since residency.
Experience
General Pediatrician · Five-provider private pediatric group, two offices
Jul 2021–Present
- Provide primary care to a panel of roughly 1,900 children, seeing 22–26 patients per clinic day across well-child visits, acute visits, ADHD follow-up and asthma management.
- Cover the level I newborn nursery at the affiliated community hospital on a 1-in-5 rotation, averaging 12–15 newborn exams and discharges per call week.
- Raised the practice's 24-month combined immunization series completion from 71% to 88% over two years by adding recall calls, a same-day catch-up protocol and standing orders.
- Serve 30–35% of visits in Spanish without an interpreter, which cut average visit length for those families by about 9 minutes.
- Precept two family medicine residents and one PA student per year during their pediatrics block; consistently rated 4.8 or higher out of 5 on end-of-rotation teaching evaluations.
- Sit on the group's quality committee, which rewrote the asthma action plan workflow and moved documented plans from 46% to 79% of persistent-asthma patients.
Staff Pediatrician · Federally qualified health center (FQHC), two rural sites
Aug 2018–Jun 2021
- Delivered primary care to about 2,300 Medicaid and uninsured children, averaging 26–30 visits a day including walk-ins and same-day sick slots.
- Ran the site's lead screening and follow-up program, taking on-time 12- and 24-month screening from 58% to 91% of eligible children.
- Started a Friday school-based clinic session at two elementary schools, adding roughly 480 visits a year for families without transportation.
- Handled foster-care intake exams, developmental screening (ASQ-3 and M-CHAT-R) and referrals to early intervention for an average of 9 children a month.
- Took first call for the pediatric panel 1 week in 4, triaging 25–40 after-hours calls per week.
Resident Physician, Pediatrics (PGY-1 to PGY-3) · ACGME-accredited categorical pediatrics residency, university-affiliated children's hospital
Jul 2015–Jun 2018
- Completed rotations in general inpatient pediatrics, PICU, NICU, emergency medicine, adolescent medicine and outpatient subspecialty clinics.
- Carried a weekly continuity clinic panel of about 120 patients for three years.
- Served as chief-selected senior on the inpatient service, supervising two interns and three medical students per block.
- Completed a quality improvement project on bronchiolitis order-set use that reduced unnecessary chest radiographs on the ward by 34%.
Education
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Kettering State University School of Medicine, 2015
B.S. in Biology, minor in Spanish
Lakemont University, 2011
Certifications
- Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), certified 2018, MOCA-Peds participant
- North Carolina medical license, active
- DEA registration, active
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), current
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), current
- Basic Life Support (BLS), current
- Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
Skills
Resume or CV? For a pediatrician, usually both
Physicians are the one US profession where "CV" is normal. But the two documents do different jobs, and a lot of pediatricians send the wrong one.
| Clinical CV (2–4 pages) | Academic CV (as long as it needs to be) |
|---|---|
| For private groups, health systems, FQHCs, urgent care, locum tenens and telehealth roles. | For faculty appointments, fellowship applications, promotion files and research posts. |
| Leads with board status, license, setting and volume. | Leads with education and training, then teaching, research, publications and funding. |
| Bullets with panel size, visits per day, call ratio and quality measures. | Full lists: every publication, abstract, poster, committee, grant and invited talk. |
| Cut committee work older than about eight years. | Nothing is cut. Reverse chronological, complete. |
If a posting says "submit your CV" and it is a community practice or health system job, they mean the clinical version. Send the two-page document. Keep the academic CV updated separately so you can send it the day a teaching or fellowship opportunity comes up.
What a physician recruiter checks in the first minute
- Board status. "Board certified, American Board of Pediatrics" with the year, or "board eligible, ABP exam scheduled October 2026". Never write "board certified" if you are eligible but have not passed. Credentialing will find out and the offer will not survive it.
- Licensure and DEA. Which states you hold an active license in, whether you hold an active DEA registration, and whether you are eligible for licensure in their state. Recruiters filter for this because a license transfer can add two to four months to a start date.
- Setting and volume. Outpatient only, outpatient plus nursery, inpatient, urgent care, telehealth. Then visits per day and panel size. A group hiring for 24 patients a day wants to see you have done 24 patients a day.
- Call. The line everyone skips and every recruiter wants. "1 in 5 call with nursery coverage" or "no call, phone triage 1 week in 4" answers the question that otherwise takes an email round trip.
- Gaps and job changes. Explain a gap in one short line rather than leaving a hole. Parental leave, a move, further training, a visa process. A two-year unexplained gap on a physician CV always gets asked about.
“I need board status, license states and DEA in the top third, and I need the call schedule somewhere. If a pediatrician tells me they see 24 a day with nursery on a one-in-five, I can match that to five openings today. A CV that only lists rotations makes me guess, and I do not guess.”
Pediatrician resume summary examples
Three or four sentences under your name. Board status, years since residency, setting and volume, then one thing you improved.
Board-certified general pediatrician with 8 years of post-residency practice, carrying a panel of about 1,900 patients in a five-provider group with level I nursery coverage on a 1-in-5 rotation. Sees 22–26 patients a day. Took the practice's 24-month immunization completion rate from 71% to 88%. Bilingual English/Spanish, Epic since 2015.
Pediatrics resident graduating June 2026 from an ACGME-accredited categorical program, board eligible with the ABP exam scheduled for October 2026. Three years of continuity clinic with a panel of about 130 patients, plus PICU, NICU and inpatient senior experience. Seeking an outpatient general pediatrics role in the Southeast with nursery coverage.
Board-certified pediatrician with 6 years as a pediatric hospitalist at a 240-bed community hospital, covering a 22-bed pediatric unit, level II nursery and delivery attendance. Averages 9–12 admissions per 12-hour shift and takes 14 shifts a month. Co-wrote the bronchiolitis pathway now used house-wide.
Board-certified pediatrician with 11 years of outpatient practice, returning to clinical work after two years of family leave with an active NC license, current DEA, NRP, PALS and completed CME. Comfortable at 18–20 visits a day and looking for a 0.6 FTE outpatient role without inpatient call.
Pediatrician with 6 years of practice in general pediatrics abroad, ECFMG certified with USMLE Steps 1, 2 CK and 3 complete. Applying to ACGME-accredited pediatrics residency positions in the US and available for observership or research roles in the interim. Experience with a 40-bed pediatric ward and a busy outpatient department.
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Bullets that work on a pediatrician CV
Rotation lists and duty statements do not separate you from the other twelve applicants. Volume, quality measures, procedures and teaching do.
| Weak | Strong |
|---|---|
| Provided primary care to pediatric patients. | Provide primary care to a panel of about 1,900 children from birth to 18 years, seeing 22–26 patients per clinic day. |
| Administered vaccines per schedule. | Raised 24-month combined immunization series completion from 71% to 88% over two years with recall calls, standing orders and a same-day catch-up protocol. |
| Managed patients with asthma. | Moved documented asthma action plans from 46% to 79% of persistent-asthma patients after rewriting the intake workflow with the quality committee. |
| Covered the newborn nursery. | Cover a level I newborn nursery 1 week in 5, averaging 12–15 newborn exams and discharges per call week, including hyperbilirubinemia follow-up. |
| Taught residents and students. | Precept two family medicine residents and one PA student per year during the pediatrics block, with end-of-rotation teaching scores of 4.8 or higher out of 5. |
| Performed office procedures. | Perform laceration repair, abscess incision and drainage, nursemaid's elbow reduction and newborn circumcision in office; about 70 procedures a year. |
| Participated in quality improvement. | Led a bronchiolitis order-set QI project that cut unnecessary chest radiographs on the inpatient ward by 34% over two seasons. |
| Saw patients from diverse backgrounds. | Conduct 30–35% of visits in Spanish without an interpreter, shortening average visit length for those families by about 9 minutes. |
| Handled after-hours calls. | Take first call for the panel 1 week in 4, triaging 25–40 after-hours calls a week with documented next-day follow-up. |
| Worked with a multidisciplinary team. | Coordinate with early intervention, school nurses and behavioral health for roughly 9 developmental referrals a month after ASQ-3 or M-CHAT-R screening. |
Boards, licenses and certifications: how to list them
This block is not decoration. It is what a credentialing office copies. Put it high on page one and keep every date accurate.
- Board certification: "Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics, certified 2018". If you take part in MOCA-Peds, the ABP's continuing certification activity, say so on the same line. Subspecialists add the second board (for example "ABP Pediatric Emergency Medicine, certified 2022").
- Board eligible: write it plainly with the exam date. Recruiters and credentialing staff read "board eligible" as a real, time-limited status, and misstating it is the fastest way to lose an offer.
- State medical license: list each state and whether it is active. If you hold a license through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, that is worth naming.
- DEA registration: active or not. Some states also require a separate controlled substances registration; check your state's board rather than assuming.
- Life support: NRP, PALS and BLS with expiration years. Nursery and inpatient roles will not credential you without current NRP and PALS.
- Membership: FAAP (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics) if you hold it. It is a membership category, not a board certification, so do not present it as one.
- For international medical graduates: ECFMG certification, USMLE Step results as passed, and your visa status or work authorization if you want to save everyone a phone call.
Training goes in its own block: medical school with degree and year, residency program with the specialty and dates, fellowship if you did one, and chief resident year if applicable. Undergraduate degree gets one line. Do not list individual rotations once you are more than two years out.
Graduating resident: your first pediatrician CV
You have no attending job to point at, so the CV has to make three years of residency look like what it was: thousands of patient encounters.
- 1Put expected graduation date, board eligibility and exam date in the first three lines.
- 2Quantify continuity clinic: panel size, half-days a week, how many years. That is your closest thing to outpatient practice.
- 3Describe your senior year in supervisory terms: how many interns and students you ran, which services, how many admissions a night.
- 4List procedures with numbers if your program logged them (lumbar punctures, intubations, laceration repairs, circumcisions). A number beside each is normal and expected on a pediatrics CV.
- 5Include your QI or scholarly project with the result, not just the title.
- 6Add teaching, committees and any advocacy or community work; pediatrics groups genuinely weigh these.
- 7State geographic preference and desired setting near the top. Recruiters sort by it.
- 8Keep it to two pages. There is no prize for stretching a residency into four.
Carried a continuity clinic panel of about 130 patients for three years, one half-day per week, covering well-child care, immunizations, ADHD medication management and adolescent visits.
Supervised two interns and three medical students per inpatient block on a 28-bed general pediatrics service averaging 6–9 admissions per night shift.
Logged 24 lumbar punctures, 31 newborn circumcisions, 40+ laceration repairs and 18 neonatal intubations across three years of training.
Format, length and applicant tracking systems
- Two pages for a clinical CV, three if you have significant teaching or committee work. The academic CV has no limit.
- Reverse chronological. Header order that works: name and credentials, contact and NPI, summary, certifications and licensure, experience, training and education, procedures, teaching, quality work, memberships.
- PDF unless the application portal demands .docx. Health system portals (Workday, Taleo, iCIMS) mangle two-column layouts and text boxes, so use a single column.
- Put the exact posting words in: "outpatient general pediatrics", "newborn nursery", "level II nursery", "Epic", "1.0 FTE", "call 1 in 5". Credentialing and recruiting both search these.
- Write both forms of an abbreviation once: "American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)", "Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)".
- List your NPI number. It is public information and it speeds up credentialing.
- Keep license expiration and certification renewal dates current on every version you send. A CV with an expired PALS date on it reads as careless in a field where dates are the job.
Frequently asked questions
Should a pediatrician send a resume or a CV?
Send a two-to-four page clinical CV for practice, health system, FQHC, urgent care and telehealth jobs. Send a full academic CV only for faculty, fellowship or research positions. When a community practice posting asks for "your CV", they mean the shorter clinical version, and a 14-page publication list will slow the read down rather than help it.
How long should a pediatrician CV be?
Two pages for most clinical roles, three if you have real teaching, committee or quality work worth listing. An academic CV can run much longer because nothing is cut. What matters more than length is that board status, licensure and volume appear in the top third of page one.
What skills should a pediatrician put on a resume?
Clinical scope first: well-child care from newborn to adolescent, newborn nursery, asthma and ADHD management, developmental screening tools you use, and the office procedures you perform. Then the EMR by name (Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth), any second language at working level, and teaching or precepting. Skip generic traits like "compassionate"; the bullets should show that.
How do I write a pediatrician resume objective?
Only use an objective if you are graduating residency, changing setting or returning to practice. Two lines: what you are board certified or eligible in, and exactly what you want (outpatient general pediatrics, 1.0 FTE, Southeast, nursery coverage acceptable). Everyone else should use a summary that leads with board status and volume.
Can I say board eligible on my CV?
Yes, if you are, and you should give the exam date. "Board eligible, ABP certifying exam scheduled October 2026" is a normal and expected line for a graduating resident. Do not write "board certified" until you have passed. Credentialing verifies certification directly with the American Board of Pediatrics, so an overstatement is always caught.
What numbers should a pediatrician put on a CV?
Panel size, patients per clinic day, call ratio, nursery or inpatient volume, and one or two quality measures you moved (immunization completion, lead screening, asthma action plans, well-visit rates). Procedure counts help too, especially for recent graduates. Use ranges when the number varies; nobody expects a precise figure for a busy clinic day.
I trained outside the US. What should my pediatrician CV show?
Put ECFMG certification status, USMLE steps passed, and your work authorization or visa situation near the top, because those decide whether an application can go anywhere. List your medical school with the country and your postgraduate training with its length and setting. If you are applying to residency rather than attending jobs, add US clinical experience, observerships and research separately.
How do I explain a gap in clinical practice?
One line in the experience section, in place, with the dates. Parental leave, caregiving, a relocation, immigration processing or further study are all ordinary and none of them need an apology. Then show how you kept current: active license, completed CME, current NRP, PALS and BLS, or a short period of supervised or locum work before you apply.
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