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Medical profession is the profession, where there is absolutely no margin of errors as one is dealing with human lives. This simply means that the resume should be written with great care. A doctor’s resume must reflect dedication and professionalism, all on that piece of paper. In order to write a professional medical resume, follow the simple instructions:-

1. Contact Information: This includes your name in full, your campus and permanent address, your telephone numbers and your email address.

2. Job Objective: The medical resume should include a brief headline that brings out your career goal and one or two of your highest qualifications.

3. Summary: This portion includes a summary of your resume. This summary tells the employer of what all you are and have inside you as a talent. For example, “More than eight years diverse leadership experience as a physician with significant achievements in developing care-taking strategies, coaching medical staff on healthcare business and practice issues.”

4. Education: This is the place where you list out all your education starting from your highest degree first. This would also include the name of the institution, city and state where you did that education.

5. Skills: This is an important part of the resume. Remember that the persons coming for the job are more or less on the similar lines of qualification, but it is the skill that is different at all times. Mention all your job related skills to make your resume outstanding. Use action-words, verbs, adverbs, adjectives in your descriptions and terms that are specific to your job. You can also add your computer and language skills.

6. Experience: This is the place where you should describe your experience and all your achievements as a medical practitioner. Now this is very necessary for one to understand that you might have all the experience of the world, but you should present only that experience, for which you have applied. Rest all may be good, but not for this job. Think it like this. In this section you should use action words as to how you cured people. It is the truth you are writing, so make it the truth with the write words. You should also include a sub-section for performed surgeries, if you are a surgeon. For example, performed surgeries like: vascular surgical repair of femoral and radial arteries or partial hip replacement or open reduction and internal fixation of fractures using plate and screws on femoral, humeral, radial and fibular bones.

7. Activities: This section includes campus and community activities, memberships in professional organizations etc.

8. Personal: This is the last section that includes certifications, security clearances, patents, special awards, citizenship etc.

There was a trend in many countries that a common man once wanted to become a doctor and for this, people even ventured into going abroad for gaining education as it was cheaper and effective than it was there in their own country. The parents thought that it is an achievement that their son or daughter is a doctor. Some considered this profession as pious and some took it as a platform to raise high in their lives. But the role of the medical colleges has not changed since there have been education providers in our society.

The main and the basic role of these medical colleges is to make effective doctors that help the growth of the society by assisting the society to remain healthy. So much to say, but all the medical colleges throughout the world are actually going towards the same common aim with the same common ethos. This is why a doctor who has done his degree from Russia can work the same way as he works in Russia or Uganda or Canada. The humans will suffer from the same diseases and the doctors duties of curing them and making them healthy are the same throughout.

The path to acceptance to medical school involves a number of steps, not necessarily done in this order:-

• Completion of required courses or minimal education for entrance to be met.
• Extracurricular activities, including clinical experience or community service actually adds a point in your resume.
• The letters of recommendation from the higher authority of the institution where you have worked before sees you at step more closely to your success.
• Many colleges require entrance exams to enroll a candidate for any course.
• Based on your result in the entrance exams, one can try finding the best college for themselves.
• This requires submission of applications to various colleges.
• Sending in supplemental (secondary) applications where required.
• There is a requirement of attending the interviews at various medical colleges after you have received the acceptance letter from the college.
• Careful attention must be paid to each step; each must be done well or you will run the risk of not getting into the program of your choice. In addition, you should do everything deliberately, and well in advance of any deadlines. Do not wait till the last minute. Do the research for your career in medicine and be prepared.

All medical colleges work on almost similar lines throughout the world.

The medical field is so very large that it offers a wide variety of career options available to a person from medical background. Come common areas of specialization for career point of view are written in the subsequent paragraphs.

The doctor or the general practitioner or the physician, is the person who diagnosis and treats the patients on everyday basis for the sundry ailments of the human body. They are the persons holding an MBBS degree and are generally practicing as physicians.

On the other hand, if one has experience and has a higher degree for masters, one can opt for becoming a surgeon. They are the persons those are responsible for the surgery of or for the organs of the human body. These surgeons specialize in their specific areas and perform orthopedic or plastic or any other type of surgery as per their field of expertise.

The job prospects for a medical qualified person are too many. They can come up by opening a clinic and start to practice medicine. Mostly such clinics are at places where the distance to the hospitals is very much. Or, the individual can opt for having at job at various places. If a person finds a job in a government hospital, the individual gets a fixed salary and is bounded by the rules and regulations of the government. There is a rise, but it is a slow rise and mostly depended upon the years of experience. On the other hand one can opt for working in a private hospital, where he can work full time and the promotions are totally depended on the hard work you do. The better you are the better results you give, the best you will be in terms of remuneration and appointment.

One can also work in the Nursing homes or the clinics or any other health department. This is also a prospect that one can look into as it allows one to work without any time pressures as the load on the nursing homes is limited and one can easily grow his knowledge of medicine.

There is an option available throughout the world for the citizens of their country, that the doctors can join the defense forces as doctors. This again is a very challenging job as one is able to exploit their knowledge at various levels and also work in most parts of the country.

Some may even think of joining the institutes as medical teachers or professors or even go to the industrial sector. Choices are there. It is just what one wants to do.

The medical industry is that sector of the economic system of the world that provides goods in terms of medicine and equipment and services in terms of doctors, to treat the patients with curative or preventive care. This medical industry is also known as Health Care Industry, in some parts of the world. This medical industry is divided into many sub-sectors depending upon the disciplinary teams of varied professionals and paraprofessionals that are there to meet the health requirements of the individuals and population as a whole.

This medical industry is one of the largest and fastest growing industries that is consuming up to ten percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), in most of the developed or developing countries. Medical industry forms an enormous part of any country’s economy. In terms of the finance and management of any industry, the medical industry is classified into several areas and as per the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), this industry is generally consisting of the hospital activities, the medical and dental practice activities and the human health activities.

When the term medical industry comes into talks, one tends to think of the hospitals, but those are only a part of the overall industry. Hospitals and clinics are classified as health care providers. They are a type of institution that are providing the preventive and curative health care services in a systematic way, to the individuals, families or communities.

The medical industry has also a support of many types of professionals that are not providing the health care services directly, but forms the management and the support staff of each and every institution.

The medical industry can also be further classified in two main groups, namely the health care equipment and services and pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and related life sciences. Now, health care equipment and services basically comprise of medical companies and medical entities that provide medical equipment, the supplies and also provides the health care service institutions like hospitals and clinics or nursing homes.

The other group is the pharmaceuticals and this industrial group comprises of companies that produce biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and miscellaneous scientific services. This is the industry that is involved in the research in various aspects of human health, along with the educational institutions. The educational institutes are not only helping the industry with research, but also are making professionals and balancing the proportion between the overall providers and professionals.