NHS Doctor (Clinical Fellow) resume
What this role’s resume is actually judged on — the language postings use, what a reviewer looks for in the first ten seconds, and the specific way NHS Doctor (Clinical Fellow) resumes go wrong.
NHS Doctor (Clinical Fellow) resume example
A complete one-page example. The person and the employers are invented; the structure, the numbers and the wording are what this role’s best resumes look like.
Fatima Iqbal
[email protected] · 07700 900417 · Leeds, UK · linkedin.com/in/fatima-iqbal-example
SUMMARY
Clinical Fellow in Acute Medicine with full GMC registration and a licence to practise, six years post-qualification and two in the NHS. ALS provider, leads audit and quality improvement, and teaches foundation doctors weekly. Applying for Clinical Fellow posts in general internal medicine ahead of IMT.
EXPERIENCE
Kirkstall Bridge NHS Foundation Trust Leeds, UK Clinical Fellow (ST1–2 level), Acute Medicine Aug 2024 – Present
- Clerked 10–14 patients per acute take on a 1:8 full-shift rota for a 60-bed acute medical unit, presenting on consultant post-take ward rounds
- Led a two-cycle audit of treatment escalation plans: completion within 24 hours rose from 42% to 81% after a proforma change and an MDT huddle prompt
- Ran a PDSA quality improvement project on insulin prescribing, reducing errors on the electronic chart from 19 to 6 a month over 3 cycles
- Organised weekly bedside teaching for 8 foundation doctors, rated 4.7/5 in trust feedback
- Delivered a session on Good Medical Practice and duty of candour to 12 international graduates starting their first NHS rotation
Ravi Teaching Hospital Lahore, Pakistan Senior House Officer, General Medicine Mar 2022 – Jun 2024
- Managed a 30-bed general medicine ward under consultant supervision, with overnight on-call cover for 120 inpatients
- Performed 60+ supervised procedures, including pleural aspirations, ascitic drains and lumbar punctures, recorded in a signed logbook
- Passed PLAB 1 (Nov 2022) and PLAB 2 (Jun 2023) while working full time
Ravi Teaching Hospital Lahore, Pakistan House Officer (FY1 equivalent) Jan 2021 – Feb 2022
- Completed 4-month posts in general medicine, general surgery and paediatrics
- Covered a 1:6 night rota for 3 surgical wards, escalating deteriorating patients through NEWS2
EDUCATION
King Edward Medical University, Lahore 2015 – 2020 MBBS
Distinction in Medicine
SKILLS
Acute medical take, Ward leadership, Pleural aspiration, Ascitic drain insertion, Lumbar puncture, Clinical audit, Quality improvement (PDSA), MDT working, Clinical teaching, Electronic prescribing
CERTIFICATIONS
- GMC full registration with a licence to practise (2024)
- PLAB 1 and PLAB 2: passed (2023)
- Advanced Life Support (ALS), Resuscitation Council UK (2024)
Why this example works
- GMC registration, PLAB and ALS are in the summary and certifications, where an NHS shortlister scores them first.
- The audit and the QI project each say what changed and by how much, matching the person specification rather than a list of duties.
- Written in UK terms (take, rota, post-take ward round, FY1 equivalent), avoiding the home-system CV the guide warns about.
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Use this example →What a reviewer looks for first
A first pass takes seconds and is looking for three things. If they are not near the top, the rest of the page rarely gets read.
- GMC registration status (or PLAB results and the date you expect it) and life support certificates
- A completed audit or QI project with what changed
- Clinical posts with the specialty, level and the size of the on-call you covered
One bullet, rewritten
Most resumes fail one bullet at a time. The difference is almost always specificity — a number, a constraint, or a consequence.
Weak
Participated in clinical audit.
Stronger
Led a re-audit of VTE risk assessment on admission: compliance rose from 61% to 92% after a ward teaching session and a prompt on the admission proforma.
NHS Doctor (Clinical Fellow) resume keywords
Terms that recur in real postings for this role. They belong in the bullet that proves them, not in a list at the bottom — our own checker weights requirement coverage at 40% and raw keyword matching at 20%, and most serious systems make a similar trade.
A keyword you cannot defend in an interview is worse than a missing one. How the format checks work.
The mistake NHS Doctor (Clinical Fellow) resumes make
Writing a CV for your home system
NHS shortlisters look for audit, teaching, governance and GMC registration, and score applications against the person specification. A CV that lists only duties and procedures, in another country's terms, scores low before anyone reads your experience.
Once the resume works
NHS Doctor (Clinical Fellow) mock interview
NHS panels for clinical fellow and trust-grade posts are structured and short: a clinical scenario talked through with ABCDE and escalation, a patient-safety question, audit or quality improvement, teaching, and why the NHS. Safe and structured beats impressive.
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