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Occupational and Environmental Physician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what occupational and environmental 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 occupational and environmental physicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Occupational and environmental physician with fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, focused on the relationship between work, the environment and human health. Experienced in fitness for duty assessments, workplace exposure investigations and return-to-work coordination across mining, construction and healthcare settings. Committed to helping employers meet work health and safety obligations while supporting workers to stay safe and productive.
Key skills
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Fitness for duty evaluations
- Health surveillance program design
- Regulatory compliance and work health and safety
- Risk and internal controls
- Return-to-work coordination
- Spirometry
- Audiometry
- Best Practice Software
- MedicalDirector
- Microsoft Excel
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
Experience: example bullet points
- Conducted over 300 pre-employment, periodic and exit medical examinations annually, using spirometry and audiometry to detect early signs of occupational disease and advise on controls.
- Coordinated return-to-work plans for 50 injured workers across multiple sites, collaborating with employers, insurers and treating practitioners to achieve timely and safe returns to suitable duties.
- Advised a construction employer on health surveillance programs, leading to earlier detection of noise-induced hearing loss and improved use of audiometry across the workforce.
- Investigated a cluster of respiratory symptoms at a manufacturing facility, identifying a process fume exposure and recommending controls that reduced reported symptoms and improved air quality.
- Delivered health education sessions to workers and supervisors on hazard awareness and risk controls, increasing reported near-miss incidents and supporting a stronger safety culture.
- Maintained accurate medical records using Best Practice Software and MedicalDirector, ensuring compliance with privacy and work health and safety regulations.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or Doctor of Medicine (MD), followed by internship and residency, then specialist training and fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) within 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.
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- AFOEM
- RACP
- AHPRA
- WorkCover
- Comcare
- Safe Work Australia
- Fitness for duty
- Return to work
- Health surveillance
- Spirometry
- Audiometry
- Best Practice Software
- MedicalDirector
- Work health and safety
- Regulatory compliance
- Pre-employment medical
- Occupational illness
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.