Step 1 Instructions: Student Review Application

  • Place your full name at the top of the first page of the CV. Number the pages if more than one.
  • Format the file as PDF. Label file with your LASTNAME.FIRSTNAME. The PDF file label should start with your LAST NAME in all caps. Please make sure the PDF is correctly labeled before you upload and do not send word documents.
  • Do not include in the CV the Date of Birth, Social Security Number or GWID and/or GWorld ID number.

We will ask that you rearrange portions of the CV you are using for ERAS with the guidance below. Professionalism in is expected in the listing of what is relevant and appropriate to be included. The intent of asking you to organize your CV in this manner is to provide the opportunity to list accomplishments under a common set of instructions, equitably communicated to each student under consideration.

Rearrange your existing CV with the guidance and examples listed below. The ERAS CV format is the perfect starting point. The material you have in your CV already will only be re-arranged and, on occasion, clarified so that the role, timing and details of an activity or accomplishment during medical school is highlighted to the best advantage. In most cases you will not need to alter the top portion of your CV where you list your name and the basic details of Education and Employment or other general items such as Hobbies or Certifications. Keep that information intact. Remove redundant sections that list awards, publications or presentations and rearrange the existing relevant information into the following topics : "Leadership", "Service", "Teaching", "Academic Scholarship", "Awards/Scholarships" and "Current work". For purposes of this application we ask that you include only the items that date from the start of medical school under those topics. To capture other items in your CV that meet these categories but fall outside the requested time frame (pre-matriculation to medical school), move anything else you want to mention to the section called "Additional items". For example: you wrote a paper that was published before the start of medical school, it will not be added to Academic Scholarship but to the Additional Items section.

As a general rule for all sections the participation in school-wide events that involve the entire student body and/or the participation is related to a curricular or credit-generating offering are not items that should not be highlighted as personal accomplishments.

To maximize the impact of your descriptions please avoid abbreviations of specific societies, groups or service organizations. Please take care to indent and space entries under each category for ease of review, and do not forget to clearly label each section. If there are no items to list, leave the section blank.

Leadership

Note leadership roles in the community, school and/or service organizations since start of medical school. NOTE: Participation in an elective at GW or other school or the participation in credit-accruing curriculum opportunity should not be listed under this section for purposes of this review.

Service

Examples include altruistic volunteerism and/or service to the school or to the community entered in at the start of or continued through medical school. For leadership specific roles in a service organization, do not list them twice. Prioritize the leadership role in the section above. NOTE: Participation in an elective at GW or other school or the participation in credit-accruing curriculum opportunity should not be listed under this section for purposes of this review.

Teaching

Examples include significant roles in curriculum development or awards relating to gifted teaching. For leadership roles relating to this topic, do not list them twice. Prioritize the leadership role in the section above. Tutoring should be included in this section, even if a service role. Only include tutoring if you volunteered your time (non-paid) for other medical students or other students (GWU, community or other) during the time you have been a medical student. NOTE: Participation in a credit-accruing curriculum opportunity at GW or paid-tutoring should not be listed under this section for purposes of this review.

Academic Scholarship

Scholarly works is a broad category and can include projects involving professionalism or humanism, social sciences, public health or to any number of other academic endeavors that relate to medical research in all its forms. Provide the project title, the mentor/s and very briefly note the specific role you have in each project. As you may already have a section for scholarship in your CV that lists papers/publications, take the existing information and rearrange with the details requested in the categories outlined below : Peer-reviewed, Electronic, Meetings/Posters, Book Chapters.

Not all scholarly works result in formal publication. Not all scholarly works may be completed and can be unrecognized in standard CV formats. The next section "Current Work" allows you to highlight where you are working on completing project or taking a paper to publication. If you have had the opportunity to contribute to a completed publication or presentation during your time in medical school please use the following guidance to group the work or works under "Academic Scholarship" using the following sub-categories. If one or more of these sub-categories do not apply to your CV, then do not include them under "Academic Scholarship". Anything you published before medical school should be moved to "Additional Items".

Peer-reviewed Publications should be listed in chronologic order (recent-oldest) from the date of your matriculation to the School of Medicine. In this section include only peer-reviewed papers which are listed at National Library of Medicine or PubMed. Use bold to highlight your name in the list of authors. All publications referenced must have a complete, formal citation with all authors listed and a PMID citation that can be found in PubMed.gov. Include the PMID and/or PMCID to verify the publication.

Electronic or e-publications that are NOT listed in NLM/PubMed should be clearly identified and listed in chronologic order (recent-oldest) from the date of your matriculation to the School of Medicine. Each entry must include a weblink that a reviewer will be able to search from a paper-copy of your CV. Verification will require the full weblink (avoid pasting a summary hyperlink). References must have a complete, formal citation with all authors listed.

Meeting Presentations and/or Posters should be listed in chronologic order(recent-oldest) from the date of your matriculation to the School of Medicine. Your role should be clear in the description. This section should include posters, presentations at national or local meetings and/or other informal presentations. Presentations at GW Research Day should be listed in this section. Provide the full name of the meeting and all the authors. Avoid acronyms for meeting and/or the sponsoring societies.

Book chapter contributions should be listed in chronologic order from the date of your matriculation to the School of Medicine. Provide full reference and all authors.

Current Work

This section allows you to capture current activity that may otherwise not have been listed above. If you were employed in a paid position during medical school, please note that item in this section and describe the time (hours per week or weeks per year) and description of the position and what relevance it may have to your career goals. If required military service as part of an academic scholarship was performed, use this space to note the weeks per year or total time commitment completed during medical school. This space allows you to highlight additional academic scholarly works that have yet to be published and may still be in progress. Avoid repeating items already described; if a new project has been initiated, be sure to provide the mentor's full name and the title of the project. Very briefly explain your role and add a note where you are in the process (participation in study group, joining meetings, writing, analyzing data, submitting etc).

Awards and Academic Scholarships

This item already exists in your CV but arrange so dates are clearly displayed, and that only those items relevant to the time since start of medical school are included for this version of your CV. Note the origin of the award GWU or other source; note if award is related to one of the other sections such as leadership, service, teaching or scholarship. Items pre-dating medical school can be noted in the next section, "Additional items"

Additional Items

In this section you can opt to include items that fall outside of medical school time-frame for categories above. This section is not intended to produce additional work. Anything that could not be included in the sections above can be posted in this section. Do not use this section for personal communications to the committee members; you will have the opportunity to submit a short narrative piece to reflect on empathy, integrity and respect for others in Step 2 below. The requested essay is de-identified to review anonymously, so please take care not to paste the text you will enter for the essay below into this space or anywhere within your CV.

As a reminder, it is critical that you label the file correctly and clearly identify yourself within the document as outlined above.