Student Corner

Resume Tips for Students

Have you included all of your IPE activities on your resume? These are unique learning opportunities that can set you apart from your peers when applying for jobs or graduate school. Here are some tips of how to document these events. You can include an Interprofessional Activities section in your resume to highlight these unique and valuable opportunities. Here is an example of how to include these activities on your resume:

Interprofessional (IP) Activities  

TeamSTEPPS^© Fundamentals Training: Strengthening Teamwork in Interprofessional Concussion Management, August  2021 (SLP, Athletic Training, Social Work, Dietetics) 

The Community Action Poverty Simulation, Spring 2022 (IP Activity with Social Work, Athletic Training, Speech Language Pathology, and Nursing) 

Initial IP Education: Values and Ethics for Interprofessional Practice, Fall 2021

Interprofessional Common Reading: Five Nights at Memorial, Fall 2020/Spring 2021

Inital IP Education: Roles and Responsibilities for Interprofessional Practice, Spring 2022

Intermediate IP Education; Interprofessional Communication, Fall 2021

Intermediate IP Education: Teams and Teamwork, Spring 2022

Additional Tips

In your cover letter, be sure to highlight your IP activities.  You may choose to provide an overview of the various professions and institutions you have worked with during these activities or what lessons you learned from your participation in these activities.

Below are the institutions and various programs  that you may interact with through your participation in Interprofessional Education:

TCU:
Social Work, Athletic Training, Dietetics, Speech Language Pathology, Nursing, Nurse Anesthesia, Kinesiology

UNTHSC:
Allopathic and Osteopathic Medicine, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Public Health, Pharmacy

Texas Wesleyan University:
Athletic Training

Texas Woman’s University:
Dietetics

UT Arlington:
Social Work, Athletic Training