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Intensive Care Specialist resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what intensive care specialists 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 intensive care specialists should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Intensive Care Specialist with fellowship training through the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand, managing critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation, vasopressor support and other organ support. Experienced in leading multidisciplinary ICU ward rounds, performing bedside critical care procedures and coordinating resuscitation of deteriorating inpatients. Registered as a specialist with AHPRA and comfortable supervising registrars while keeping families informed through high-stakes decisions.
Key skills
- Mechanical ventilation and weaning management
- Vasopressor and haemodynamic support
- Central venous catheter and arterial line insertion
- Point-of-care ultrasound for bedside assessment
- Clinical assessment and treatment of the deteriorating patient
- Medication management and sedation practice in critical illness
- Care planning, admission triage and discharge coordination
- Infection control and central line care
- ICU clinical information systems (for example MetaVision)
- Electronic medical record systems (for example Cerner, Epic)
- Point-of-care blood gas and pathology result interpretation
- Supervision and teaching of registrars and junior doctors
Experience: example bullet points
- Led daily multidisciplinary ward rounds in a tertiary ICU, coordinating ventilation weaning, sedation holds and discharge planning with nursing, pharmacy and allied health
- Performed central venous and arterial line insertions at the bedside using ultrasound guidance, maintaining a low complication rate across a busy unit
- Coordinated rapid response and resuscitation calls for deteriorating inpatients, shortening the time from call to senior critical care review
- Introduced a structured after-hours admission handover checklist that reduced missed investigations picked up on the following day's ward round
- Ran family case conferences to establish goals of care and documented treatment limitation decisions clearly in the medical record
- Supervised registrars and residents on the ICU roster, including procedural teaching and day-to-day clinical review of ventilator management
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or Doctor of Medicine (MD), prevocational hospital training, then completion of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (CICM) training program and Fellowship (FCICM), 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.
- Intensive Care Specialist
- FCICM
- College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
- CICM
- AHPRA specialist registration
- ANZICS
- NSQHS Standards
- Sepsis Clinical Care Standard
- mechanical ventilation
- vasopressor support
- central venous catheterisation
- point-of-care ultrasound
- rapid response
- goals of care
- eMR (Cerner, Epic)
- MetaVision
- Advanced Life Support
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.