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General Physician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what general physicians actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most general physicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
General Physician with FRACP and broad experience in adult internal medicine across inpatient and ambulatory settings. Skilled in the assessment and management of complex, multimorbid patients, with a strong focus on care coordination and multidisciplinary teamwork. Committed to supervising and teaching junior medical staff and to improving patient outcomes through evidence-based practice.
Key skills
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Patient care and support
- Medication management
- Care planning and coordination
- Health education and advice
- Epic
- Oracle Health (Cerner)
- eMR (NSW Health)
- UpToDate
- PACS
- Written communication
- Problem solving
- People leadership
Experience: example bullet points
- Led daily ward rounds for a 30-bed general medicine unit, coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, timely care and reduce average length of stay by one day.
- Managed complex inpatient caseloads, ordering and interpreting pathology, imaging and other investigations to guide diagnosis and treatment.
- Developed and monitored long term treatment plans for patients with chronic conditions, adjusting medications and therapies in outpatient clinics.
- Supervised and taught registrars, residents and medical students, providing feedback and supporting their clinical development.
- Improved discharge planning processes by introducing a checklist that cut delays in patient flow across the ward.
Education
MBBS or MD, followed by RACP Basic and Advanced Training in General and Acute Care Medicine, leading to Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP).
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- AHPRA registration
- RACP
- FRACP
- General and Acute Care Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Adult medicine
- Ward rounds
- Multidisciplinary team
- Discharge planning
- Clinical assessment
- Medication management
- Care coordination
- eMR
- Epic
- Cerner
- PACS
- UpToDate
- Patient safety
- Quality improvement
- Teaching and supervision
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.