I review CVs for clinical, leadership and corporate roles regularly. Recently, I looked at an application for a consultant job that was visually exhausting. It listed an MBBS, a BSc, an MRCP, a Master’s in Medical Education, a PG Cert in Leadership and three diplomas.
They had spent thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours accumulating institutional acronyms. When I interviewed them and asked, “What is the fundamental failure in how we deliver care to this demographic, and how would you fix it?” they gave me a blank stare, followed by a generic summary of a NICE guideline.
