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Geriatrician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what geriatricians 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 geriatricians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Geriatrician with advanced training in the assessment and management of older adults living with frailty, dementia and multiple chronic conditions. Skilled in leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver coordinated care that preserves independence and reduces hospital admissions. Committed to patient-centred practice and ongoing quality improvement in aged care settings.
Key skills
- Patient care and support
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Medication management and polypharmacy review
- Care planning and coordination
- Health education and advice
- Cerner Millennium electronic medical record
- InterRAI assessment instruments
- MoCA cognitive screening
- PACS medical imaging viewer
- Best Practice or similar practice software
- Empathy and interpersonal care
- Written communication
Experience: example bullet points
- Led comprehensive geriatric assessments for a caseload of 60 older patients, improving identification of reversible causes of cognitive decline.
- Reviewed medications for patients with polypharmacy, reducing the number of high-risk prescriptions and preventing adverse drug events.
- Coordinated multidisciplinary care plans with nursing and allied health staff, cutting average length of stay for frail patients from 12 days to 9.
- Advised medical teams on falls prevention and discharge planning, lowering readmission rates for older patients through targeted rehabilitation.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or Doctor of Medicine (MD), followed by internship and advanced training in geriatric medicine with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), leading to vocational registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
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.
- Geriatric medicine
- AHPRA
- RACP
- Frailty
- Dementia
- Delirium
- Polypharmacy
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment
- InterRAI
- MoCA
- Cerner Millennium
- PACS
- Discharge planning
- Falls prevention
- Multidisciplinary care
- Aged care
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.