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How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae |
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While you may not have had the experience of preparing a formal CV (“course of life”), you are already familiar with its function and the type of information needed from your applications for employment, college, or for that matter, medical school. Indeed, one of the primary functions of a CV is to provide a succinct chronicle of your past experiences and training.
In a sense, a CV is a multi-purpose, personal application form for employment, educational opportunities, honors and awards, membership or participation in an organization.
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Learning to prepare a good CV now will aid you throughout your professional life. It is a living, not a static, document that needs to be continually updated as new experiences or accomplishments are completed. Despite its multiple purposes, your CV must be restructured and rewritten, or at least reviewed, for each specific purpose for which it is to be used. It might be entirely inappropriate to include a lengthy list of publications in a CV you are submitting as application for membership in a volunteer organization. On the other hand, it might be imperative to include this information, if not in the body, at least as an appendix, in a CV you are submitting to obtain an academic position.
Some experts recommend maintaining two versions of your CV one, a short summary of your training and experience and the other, a longer version with more detailed information about your publications and presentations. In general, however, no CV should be lengthy. No matter how many accomplishments you list, you won't impress anyone if they can't quickly pick out two or three good reasons to choose you over someone else. Let your CV help you put your best foot forward.
Sometimes, a CV is referred to as a "résumé." In fact, these terms are probably interchangeable. In academic or educational circles we tend to use the word curriculum vitae, or CV, more frequently than résumé. Because of the nature of the medical profession, where the years for preparation are highly structured and generally comparable from institution to institution, a chronological format for the medical CV is often preferred. Alternatively, résumés are sometimes written in other formats such as the functional format, which de-emphasizes the chronology of experience and emphasizes instead the specific skills, knowledge or responsibility accumulated at each level. This format is ideal for the business executive who wants to highlight the fact that, in his first job out of college, he had managerial responsibility for the work of eight other people. However, it would be unusual, if not entirely ludicrous, for a medical student to state in his CV that, in medical school, he mastered the art of delayed gratification and tested the limits of short-term memory recall.
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