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US Patent Office here, I'm an examiner. You can add me to the OP if anyone wants to ask about it. The USPTO isn't hiring new examiners right now due to budget issues, but next fiscal year (starts October) the hiring is supposed to restart at 1,200 examiners for FY2011. I'm not sure though as the plans seem to be in constant flux. They were supposed to hire more this year, but then congress diverted our fee income to something else  Still, federal employment rocks hard. Hopefully it will rock even harder for more agencies once the teleworking bills get sorted out and signed into law.
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Question on suggestions out there to focus on "accomplishments" vs "duties" for outlining your work history. My wife is applying for a VA medical position and were a bit confused about how that advice applies to that sort of work. "Didn't get anyone killed through bad medical care" doesn't exactly help tick off the KSAs, you don't track things that you can put into numbers like "obtained 20% reduction in toe amputations", and any specific amazing patient outcomes would present HIPAA issues.
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Rakeris posted:As long as you are not giving identifiable health information it's not a HIPAA issue. What I meant was that in order to properly explain why a particular thing is an accomplishment you have to know the entire medical record of the patient, otherwise it just falls back onto the the realm of business as usual. I suppose a way around it would be to include examples as to which particular comorbidities and complicating factors she has run into and successfully accounted for during treatment.
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