These are the ATS keywords, credentials, and software terms that recur across current physician job descriptions — organized so you can scan for what your resume is missing. Placement matters as much as presence: an ATS keyword buried in a skills list ranks lower than the same term used in context inside an experience bullet.

Title variants

  • Physician
  • Doctor
  • Medical Doctor
  • Consultant
  • Registrar
  • Specialty Registrar
  • SpR
  • ST3
  • IMT
  • Foundation Doctor
  • FY1
  • FY2
  • CT
  • SHO
  • Specialty Doctor
  • SAS
  • Staff Grade
  • Associate Specialist
  • Locum Consultant
  • GP
  • General Practitioner
  • Attending Physician
  • Hospitalist
  • Resident
  • Fellow
  • House Officer

Registration (UK)

  • GMC
  • GMC registration
  • licence to practise
  • Specialist Register
  • GP Register
  • CCT
  • CESR
  • PLAB
  • ECFMG
  • IMT
  • CST
  • revalidation
  • Responsible Officer

Registration (US)

  • USMLE
  • USMLE Step 1
  • USMLE Step 2
  • USMLE Step 3
  • ECFMG
  • state medical license
  • DEA
  • NPI
  • ABMS
  • board certified
  • board eligible
  • IMLC
  • MOC

Royal College/Board

  • MRCP
  • MRCP(UK)
  • MRCS
  • MRCOG
  • MRCGP
  • FRCP
  • FRCS
  • FRCR
  • FRCA
  • FRCPCH
  • FRCEM
  • MRCPSYCH
  • ABIM
  • ABP
  • ABFM
  • ABS
  • ABEM
  • ABO
  • ABR
  • ABN
  • ABA
  • PACES
  • JAG
  • endoscopy
  • colonoscopy competency

Life support

  • ACLS
  • ALS
  • ATLS
  • APLS
  • BLS
  • ALS instructor
  • ACLS provider
  • ILS

Research

  • PubMed
  • peer-reviewed
  • first author
  • publication
  • H-index
  • impact factor
  • grant
  • NIHR
  • Wellcome
  • MRC
  • principal investigator
  • clinical trial
  • randomised controlled trial
  • RCT
  • systematic review
  • meta-analysis
  • ORCID
  • Scopus

Teaching

  • medical education
  • undergraduate teaching
  • postgraduate teaching
  • OSCE examiner
  • simulation
  • SimMan
  • ALS instructor
  • GME
  • PGCertMedEd
  • FHEA
  • clinical tutor
  • foundation programme director

Quality

  • audit
  • quality improvement
  • PDSA
  • NICE
  • NCEPOD
  • re-audit
  • morbidity and mortality
  • M&M
  • serious incident
  • Never Event
  • CQC
  • clinical governance

Procedures

  • endoscopy
  • colonoscopy
  • EGD
  • ERCP
  • bronchoscopy
  • cardiac catheterisation
  • angiography
  • echocardiography
  • PCI
  • transcatheter
  • central line
  • lumbar puncture
  • paracentesis
  • thoracentesis
  • pericardiocentesis
  • joint aspiration
  • laparoscopy
  • robotic
  • thoracoscopy
  • VATS

Systems

  • EPIC
  • Cerner
  • EMIS
  • SystmOne
  • Vision
  • ICE
  • PACS
  • RIS
  • Meditech
  • Allscripts
  • BadgerNet

Long-tail phrases

  • physician resume
  • physician CV
  • doctor resume
  • doctor cv
  • consultant CV UK
  • physician resume examples
  • how to write a physician CV
  • medical cv template
  • attending physician cv
  • hospitalist resume
  • physician CV 2026
  • MRCP CV
  • consultant job application
  • GP CV
  • internal medicine physician resume

Pasting these terms into your resume verbatim without matching context can read as keyword stuffing to a human reviewer, even if it passes the ATS. The full Physician resume guide shows where each category belongs and how to work it into real experience bullets.