Healthcare resume template for Google Docs™
Licenses and certifications sit right under your summary, where hiring managers look first. For PAs, nurses, therapists and techs.
- Parser read 35/35 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Arial
What a parser reads from it
Field by field, from the PDF that Google Docs exports.
35/35
fields read correctly from the resume (US Letter), downloaded from Google Docs as a PDF and read by the open-source OpenResume parser (commit 4f8255a) on Oct 5, 2026.
What the parser read
First 30 lines, exactly as extracted.
Samantha Cho Durham, NC | (919) 555-0168 | samantha.cho@example.com | linkedin.com/in/samanthacho SUMMARY Board-certified physician assistant with four years in emergency and urgent care. I see 25 to 30 patients a shift, work well in a busy department, and take the time to explain discharge plans so patients actually follow them. LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS • Physician Assistant, Certified (PA-C), board certified through 2030 • North Carolina physician assistant license, active • DEA registration, active • BLS, ACLS and PALS, current CLINICAL EXPERIENCE Pecanwood Health System, Emergency Department Durham, NC Physician Assistant Aug 2022 – Present • See 25 to 30 patients a shift in a 48-bed emergency department with about 70,000 visits a year • Perform procedures including laceration repair, splinting, incision and drainage, and joint reductions • Helped write the chest pain pathway for low-risk patients, cutting average stays by 2 hours • Precept PA students from two programs, about six students a year Quenmore Health Partners Raleigh, NC Physician Assistant Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 • Treated about 35 patients a shift across three urgent care clinics • Read X-rays with radiology overreads and managed common fractures and sprains • Started a same-day callback list for abnormal lab results, cutting missed follow-ups Ferrowby Medical Center Greenville, NC Emergency Department Technician Jun 2016 – Jul 2018 • Took vitals, drew blood, ran EKGs and helped with procedures for about 40 patients a shift EDUCATION Wendlow College of Medicine Erie, PA Master of Physician Assistant Studies Dec 2020 • Clinical rotations: emergency medicine, family medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry Marlbrook University Greenville, NC
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Samantha Cho | |
| samantha.cho@example.com | ||
| Phone | (919) 555-0168 | |
| Location | Durham, NC | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/samanthacho | |
| Summary | Board-certified physician assistant with four years in emergency and urgent care. I see 25 to 30 patients a shift, work well in a busy department, and take the time to explain discharge plans so patients actually follow them. | |
| Job 1 company | Pecanwood Health System, Emergency Department | |
| Job 1 title | Physician Assistant | |
| Job 1 dates | Aug 2022 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | See 25 to 30 patients a shift in a 48-bed emergency department with about 70,000 visits a year | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Perform procedures including laceration repair, splinting, incision and drainage, and joint reductions | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Helped write the chest pain pathway for low-risk patients, cutting average stays by 2 hours | |
| Job 1, bullet 4 | Precept PA students from two programs, about six students a year | |
| Job 2 company | Quenmore Health Partners | |
| Job 2 title | Physician Assistant | |
| Job 2 dates | Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Treated about 35 patients a shift across three urgent care clinics | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Read X-rays with radiology overreads and managed common fractures and sprains | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Started a same-day callback list for abnormal lab results, cutting missed follow-ups | |
| Job 3 company | Ferrowby Medical Center | |
| Job 3 title | Emergency Department Technician | |
| Job 3 dates | Jun 2016 – Jul 2018 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Took vitals, drew blood, ran EKGs and helped with procedures for about 40 patients a shift | |
| School 1 | Wendlow College of Medicine | |
| School 1 degree | Master of Physician Assistant Studies | |
| School 1 dates | Dec 2020 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| School 1, bullet 1 | Clinical rotations: emergency medicine, family medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry | |
| School 2 | Marlbrook University | |
| School 2 degree | Bachelor of Science in Biology | |
| School 2 dates | May 2016 | |
| School 2 GPA | (empty) | |
| Skills line 1 | Clinical: Suturing, splinting, point-of-care ultrasound | |
| Skills line 2 | Systems: Epic, Cerner | |
| Skills line 3 | Languages: English (native), Korean (conversational) |
Shown but not counted
- Physician Assistant, Certified (PA-C), board certified through 2030: no field for this section in the parser. It's in the extracted text.
- North Carolina physician assistant license, active: no field for this section in the parser. It's in the extracted text.
- DEA registration, active: no field for this section in the parser. It's in the extracted text.
- BLS, ACLS and PALS, current: no field for this section in the parser. It's in the extracted text.
- Durham, NC: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Raleigh, NC: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Greenville, NC: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Erie, PA: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
- Greenville, NC: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
This checks our sample text, read by one open-source parser from the PDF that Google Docs' File > Download > PDF produces. It isn't a score, and it doesn't tell you how Workday, Greenhouse or any other hiring system will read your own resume. Anyone can rerun it: the test repository has the PDF (SHA-256 29c823d53c8d…), the expected values and the raw results. How we test
Specs and editing tips
Everything you need to edit it without breaking the layout.
Specs
- Font
- Arial, installed on Windows and macOS, so the .docx keeps its look
- Body text
- 10.5 pt
- Margins
- 0.6 in (Letter), 15 mm (A4)
- Length
- 1 page with the sample content
- Sections
- Summary, Licenses and Certifications, Clinical Experience, Education, Skills
- Good for
- Licensed clinical roles
- Layout
- One column, no tables, text boxes, images or icons. Dates aligned with a right tab stop.
Editing tips
- Dates stay on the right by themselves. Each heading line has a right-aligned tab stop. Press Tab before the date instead of adding spaces.
- Add a job by copying one. Select a whole entry, heading lines and bullets, copy it and paste it below. The spacing comes with it.
- Ran onto a second page? Set margins to 0.5 in, body text to 10.5 pt and line spacing to single, in that order. More ways to fit one page
- Rename your copy. Recruiters see the file name, so use something like Firstname-Lastname-Resume.
Exporting your finished resume
Two downloads from Google Docs cover almost every application.
File > Download > PDF Document. This is the exact path we test on every release. It gives selectable text with the fonts embedded.
Word
File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx). Our own .docx files are exported this way, and we check that text and bullets survive. Don't convert a PDF to Word.
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Modern Accent
35/35 fields read
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Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. No account, no email and no watermark. Copy it, edit it and send it to as many employers as you like. The one thing you can't do is repost the template file itself somewhere else.
- Will it get through an ATS?
- Nobody can promise that, and we don't. What we can show is that an open-source parser reads our sample of this template correctly, field by field, from the PDF Google Docs produces. Workday, Greenhouse and others use their own parsers, and your own content matters as much as the layout. How we test
- Can I use it in Microsoft Word?
- Yes. Download the .docx, or copy to Google Docs and later use File > Download > Microsoft Word. The font is installed on Windows and macOS, so nothing gets swapped.
- Why no photo, icons or two columns?
- Parsers read a page top to bottom. Columns, text boxes and icons are the usual reason a resume comes out scrambled. US employers also generally don't want photos.
- Can my name have accents or non-Latin characters?
- Yes, with one caveat. In our tests the parser read José Álvarez, Mary-Jane Smith, Sean O'Brien and Иван Петров correctly, and the layout didn't move. A Chinese name like 王小明 also kept the page intact, but Google Docs swaps in a Japanese font for those characters and the parser left the name field empty. For US applications, put the romanized name first, like Xiaoming Wang (王小明). Phone numbers outside the US format, like +44 7700 900123, aren't picked up as phone numbers either.