Physician Assistant Resume Example

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Marcus Delgado

Physician Assistant (PA-C) — Emergency & Urgent Care
marcus.delgado@example.com+1 602 555 0183Phoenix, AZ, USAlinkedin.com/in/marcusdelgado-pac

Caseload & settings

1,400+Procedures logged
25Patients / shift
12PA students precepted
72ED beds

Summary

Board-certified PA with 7 years in a Level I emergency department and urgent care. I see 22–28 patients a shift across fast-track and acute beds: history and exam, ordering and reading labs and imaging, procedures, prescribing and disposition, working under a collaborative agreement with attending physicians. I hold DEA registration, chair our sepsis-bundle huddle and precept PA students from two programmes.

Experience

Physician Assistant — Emergency Medicine
Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix · Phoenix, AZ
Jul 2020 – Present
25Patients / shift
−34 minFast-track door-to-provider
96%Sepsis bundle compliance
  • Assess and treat adult and paediatric patients in a 72-bed Level I ED (110,000 visits/yr); order and interpret CT, ultrasound and labs and manage disposition with attendings
  • Perform laceration repair, I&D, joint reductions, splinting, lumbar puncture and ultrasound-guided IV access; 1,400+ logged procedures
  • Redesigned the fast-track PA pod with nursing; door-to-provider time fell 34 minutes and left-without-being-seen dropped from 4.1% to 1.6%
Physician Assistant — Urgent Care
HonorHealth Urgent Care · Phoenix, AZ
Aug 2018 – Jun 2020
4.9/5Patient rating
  • Ran a solo-provider clinic seeing 35–45 patients a day: minor injuries, infections, occupational medicine and X-ray reads
  • Cut unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for viral URIs from 38% to 12% with a stewardship checklist
Combat Medic (68W)
US Army Medical Department · Fort Sam Houston, TX
Jun 2011 – Aug 2015
  • Delivered trauma care and sick call for a 600-soldier battalion, including one deployment; the reason I chose the PA route

Selected projects

Sepsis huddle
Daily 5-minute review of open sepsis alerts; SEP-1 compliance from 78% to 96%

Summary example

Board-certified PA with [N] years in a Level I emergency department and urgent care. I see [N]–[N] patients a shift across fast-track and acute beds: history and exam, ordering and reading labs and imaging, procedures, prescribing and disposition, working under a collaborative agreement with attending physicians. I hold DEA registration, chair our sepsis-bundle huddle and precept PA students from two programmes.

Example bullet points for a Physician Assistant

  • Assess and treat adult and paediatric patients in a [N]-bed Level I ED ([N] visits/yr); order and interpret CT, ultrasound and labs and manage disposition with attendings
  • Perform laceration repair, I&D, joint reductions, splinting, lumbar puncture and ultrasound-guided IV access; [N]+ logged procedures
  • Redesigned the fast-track PA pod with nursing; door-to-provider time fell [N] minutes and left-without-being-seen dropped from [X%] to [X%]
  • Ran a solo-provider clinic seeing [N]–[N] patients a day: minor injuries, infections, occupational medicine and X-ray reads
  • Cut unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for viral URIs from [X%] to [X%] with a stewardship checklist
  • Delivered trauma care and sick call for a [N]-soldier battalion, including one deployment; the reason I chose the PA route

Replace the [brackets] with your own numbers and facts. Never claim results you didn't achieve.

Skills to include

  • Emergency assessment & triage
  • Procedures & POCUS
  • Prescribing (DEA Schedule II–V)
  • Sepsis & stroke pathways
  • Epic ASAP
  • Butterfly iQ+
  • UpToDate
  • Dragon Medical One

Tips for a Physician Assistant resume

  1. Put the hard requirements recruiters screen for in the top third: Emergency assessment & triage, Procedures & POCUS, Prescribing (DEA Schedule II–V).
  2. List current credentials with the issuing body, e.g. PA-C — NCCPA Board Certification, Arizona PA Licence & DEA Registration.
  3. Give every recent role at least one measured result — for example patients / shift.
  4. Match the job title in your headline to the posting where it is honest to do so.
  5. Run the built-in resume checker and paste the job description into the keyword match before you download.

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