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Sexual Health Physician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what sexual health 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 sexual health physicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Sexual Health Physician with specialist training in the diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. Works across public sexual health clinics, hospitals and community settings, combining clinical assessment with prevention counselling and public health follow up. Registered with AHPRA and committed to confidential, non judgemental care for people who often find it hard to access health services.
Key skills
- Sexual health history taking and genital examination
- Diagnosis and treatment of syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia and other STIs
- Antiretroviral therapy initiation, monitoring and adherence support
- PrEP assessment, prescribing and follow up
- Partner notification and contact tracing
- Notifiable disease reporting under public health legislation
- Counselling on safer sex, contraception and prevention options
- Infection control and hygiene in clinic settings
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- MedicalDirector
- My Health Record
- Microscopy and point of care testing systems
- Written communication with referrers and public health teams
Experience: example bullet points
- Took sexual health histories and performed genital examinations for a high volume outpatient clinic, adjusting the approach for patients who were anxious or had previously had a poor experience of care.
- Diagnosed and treated a full range of bacterial, viral and parasitic STIs, including managing syphilis staging and treatment decisions in complex presentations.
- Initiated and monitored antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV, working with nursing and pharmacy staff to keep review schedules and pathology monitoring on track.
- Led the clinic's partner notification process on difficult cases, contacting patients whose results required urgent follow up and supporting them to notify partners.
- Delivered prevention counselling covering safer sex, contraception options and PrEP, including explaining what a negative result does and does not tell a patient.
- Completed notifiable disease notifications and written reports for public health units within required timeframes.
- Supervised registrars and medical students in clinic, reviewing their histories and examination findings before management plans were finalised.
- Maintained point of care testing and microscopy quality controls, escalating equipment faults so that clinic testing was not interrupted.
Education
Medical degree (MBBS or MD) followed by internship and prevocational hospital training, then RACP basic training and advanced training in sexual health medicine through the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine, leading to fellowship (FRACP). Some physicians enter the field through RACGP fellowship with additional sexual health training and qualifications.
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
- FRACP
- RACP
- Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine
- ASHM
- sexual health medicine
- STI management
- HIV
- antiretroviral therapy
- PrEP
- partner notification
- contact tracing
- notifiable disease reporting
- public health unit
- My Health Record
- Best Practice Software
- Genie Solutions
- MedicalDirector
- Medicare
- infection control
- congenital syphilis
- syphilis
- gonorrhoea
- chlamydia
- confidentiality
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.