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Build it to match the scoring sheet. Dermatology assesses six named categories 1; CICM scores eight structured CV domains 2; RANZCOG's CV is 48 points split across clinical experience, academic, research, professional and rurality 3. Contacts and AHPRA, terms by level, courses, teaching, audits, presentations, publications.
Write the CV against the categories that will be scored. Dermatology assesses six: academic performance, employment history and clinical experience, demonstrated interest in dermatology, academic presentations and publications, professional development, and community and leadership 1. CICM's structured CV has eight domains — qualifications, ICM clinical experience, academic awards, research, CPD and courses, rural origin and experience, Indigenous origin, and relevant personal experiences 2. RANZCOG's CV is 48 points: clinical experience 18, academic 6, research 3, professional 6, rurality and Indigenous 15 3. Queensland's adult BPT scores five 250-word statements at 20% covering training plan, workplace behaviours, teaching, leadership and QI, and commitment to Queensland 4. If a category is empty on your CV you are scoring zero on it.
The standard JMO skeleton is contact details and AHPRA registration, qualifications, rotations listed by level and duration, courses, teaching, quality improvement and audit, conferences attended, presentations, publications, then referees 5. Vascular will give you a point for state or national selection in sport, music or the arts 6 — the non-clinical section is not filler.
Breadth beats depth at JMO level. Better to have something under every heading than ten publications and nothing under teaching 7. Courses are the most over-bought item: quality over quantity, and a handful that plausibly fixed a gap in your skills 8.
The counter-argument. For in-network jobs the CV is often not the binding constraint — people report getting onto BPT at large hospitals with one audit and some teaching, carried by references and being a known quantity 7. That works where you already work, and not where you don't.
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do you need 10 courses? - absolutely not. Quality over quantity for sure.
It's more important to have a little bit of everything rather than a whole lot of one thing
Sections: name/contacts/AHPRA rego, qualifications, experience (what rotations at what level), courses, teaching, quality improvement projects, conferences (just attendance), presentations (journal club, grand rounds).
you should create a master CV - a live document which exists to record all relevant experience and achievements
as a medical reg from a 'big 4' you can get on with a suprisingly little amount of CV material, a lot is based on your recommendations and references for in network jobs.
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