Home Rehabilitation Medicine Physician Resume template
Rehabilitation Medicine Physician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what rehabilitation medicine 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 rehabilitation medicine physicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Rehabilitation Medicine Physician with Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, experienced in leading multidisciplinary teams to restore function and independence for patients after stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and complex illness. Skilled in assessment, goal setting and management of spasticity and pain, with a strong commitment to patient-centred care and supervision of junior medical staff.
Key skills
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Care planning and coordination
- Rehabilitation and therapy
- Medication management
- Patient care and support
- Spasticity management including botulinum toxin injections
- Multidisciplinary team leadership
- Functional assessment using FIM/WeeFIM
- Electronic medical records (Epic, Cerner, MedicalDirector)
- Telehealth rehabilitation platforms
- Goal setting with patients and families
- Supervision of registrars and junior medical staff
Experience: example bullet points
- Led a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team of 12 clinicians, coordinating care plans for up to 20 inpatients, and reduced average length of stay from 30 to 24 days through structured weekly goal reviews.
- Performed botulinum toxin injections for over 150 patients per year with spasticity, improving passive range of motion and easing nursing care needs.
- Supervised and mentored 8 registrars and junior medical officers, with all trainees progressing to satisfactory completion of their rotations.
- Implemented a telehealth follow-up clinic for rural patients, cutting travel-related cancellations from 15 per month to 4 per month.
- Documented care plans and progress notes in Epic and Cerner, ensuring compliance with hospital accreditation standards.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (or Doctor of Medicine) from an Australian university, followed by internship and residency, then specialist training in Rehabilitation Medicine and Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
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 Fellowship
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- FIM/WeeFIM
- spasticity management
- multidisciplinary team
- Epic
- Cerner
- MedicalDirector
- Telehealth
- goal setting
- patient care
- clinical assessment
- care planning
- medication management
- supervision
- stroke rehabilitation
- brain injury rehabilitation
- spinal cord injury
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.