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Emergency Physician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what emergency 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 emergency physicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Emergency Physician with Fellowship training in emergency medicine, working across the full acuity range of a hospital emergency department. Experienced in leading resuscitation, performing emergency procedures and supervising registrars and junior medical staff on a rotating roster. Registered specialist with a focus on safe, timely disposition and clear communication with inpatient teams and patients.
Key skills
- Clinical assessment and treatment of undifferentiated presentations
- Resuscitation and stabilisation of critically ill and injured patients
- Emergency procedures including intubation, chest drain insertion and wound repair
- Medication management in time-critical settings
- Point-of-care ultrasound
- Epic and Cerner electronic medical records
- PACS image review
- Supervision and teaching of registrars and junior doctors
- Written communication and clinical documentation
- Problem solving under time pressure
- People leadership during multidisciplinary team response
- Time and deadline management across shift handover
Experience: example bullet points
- Lead resuscitation and stabilisation of critically ill and injured patients, allocating team roles and coordinating nursing, registrar and specialty input during time-critical presentations.
- Triage and assess undifferentiated presentations using the Australasian Triage Scale, escalating deteriorating patients before formal review and reducing avoidable delays to treatment.
- Perform emergency procedures including intubation, chest drain insertion and complex wound repair, maintaining competency through regular audit, simulation and procedural logbook review.
- Supervise, teach and support registrars and junior medical staff on the floor, running bedside teaching and procedural coaching that built confidence in independent assessment and handover.
- Order and interpret blood tests, ECGs and imaging to reach timely diagnoses, working with inpatient teams to confirm admission or safe discharge from a mixed acute caseload.
- Document assessments and results in Epic and Cerner and use point-of-care ultrasound at the bedside to guide assessment when formal imaging would slow decision making.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or Doctor of Medicine (MD), followed by prevocational hospital training and completion of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) training program to Fellowship (FACEM), with specialist registration through 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.
- AHPRA specialist registration
- FACEM
- Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM)
- Australasian Triage Scale
- Advanced Life Support (ALS)
- Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
- point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)
- resuscitation
- airway management
- Epic eMR
- Cerner
- PACS
- MET call
- paediatric emergency care
- clinical supervision
- rotating roster
- National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards
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.