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Paediatric Surgeon resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what paediatric surgeons 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 paediatric surgeons should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Paediatric surgeon with FRACS in Paediatric Surgery and experience across tertiary children's hospitals and specialist clinics. Provides family-centred operative care for neonates, children and adolescents, from diagnosis through to postoperative follow-up. Skilled in leading on-call teams, supervising trainees and managing complex congenital and acquired surgical conditions.
Key skills
- Neonatal and paediatric surgical assessment
- Emergency and elective paediatric operations
- Family-centred consent and counselling
- da Vinci robotic surgical system
- PACS imaging systems
- Epic electronic medical records
- Theatre management systems
- On-call roster leadership
- Trainee supervision and teaching
- Clinical governance and audit
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Problem solving under pressure
Experience: example bullet points
- Performed elective and emergency paediatric operations across a tertiary children's hospital, including neonatal bowel obstruction and appendicectomy cases.
- Led family-centred discussions for complex surgical consent, ensuring parents and carers understood risks, recovery steps and follow-up requirements.
- Supervised junior trainees and registrars on the on-call roster, supporting safe handover and timely escalation for acute paediatric presentations.
- Interpreted diagnostic imaging and pathology in PACS and Epic to guide operative planning for congenital anomalies and acquired conditions.
- Contributed to theatre management system scheduling, reducing case cancellations through better preoperative coordination and communication with anaesthetic teams.
- Managed a busy outpatient clinic, reviewing postoperative children and coordinating multidisciplinary follow-up with nursing, physiotherapy and dietetics.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) or Doctor of Medicine (MD), followed by internship and residency, then selection into the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) paediatric surgery training program, leading to Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in Paediatric Surgery.
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
- FRACS Paediatric Surgery
- RACS
- paediatric surgery
- neonatal surgery
- Medicare Provider Number
- Epic
- PACS
- da Vinci
- on-call roster
- family-centred care
- clinical governance
- multidisciplinary team
- Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
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.