✨ Medical Council Notices
15 SEPTEMBER 2004 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 120 2927
Induction and supervision: An induction and supervision plan including details of orientation must be provided by the proposed supervisor.
Funding: Confirmation must be provided from the employer that the training will not be funded by the Clinical Training Agency.
C Post-graduate training and/or experience
English: The medical practitioner must achieve, or be exempt from achieving, an overall band of 7.5 in the IELTS Academic Module, scoring at least 7 in the four individual components.
Registration: The medical practitioner must have medical registration in his or her own country, to which he or she will return on completion of the training.
Training: The medical practitioner must:
• be enrolled in a formal training programme in his or her own country, or
• have a formal postgraduate qualification accepted by the Council as indicating competence in the branch to which the medical practitioner will confine his or her practice while in New Zealand, or
• have worked for at least 12 months in an institution with which a New Zealand hospital or medical school has an exchange programme, and must have guaranteed continuing employment and training in that institution on completion of New Zealand training.
D Research
The research project must have the approval of a formally constituted ethics committee in New Zealand, and patients' informed consent must be received if patient treatment is involved.
E Locum tenens in a specialist post
English: The medical practitioner must achieve, or be exempt from achieving, an overall band of 7.5 in the IELTS Academic Module, scoring at least 7 in the four individual components.
Qualification: The medical practitioner must have an acceptable postgraduate qualification in the branch of medicine in which the medical practitioner wishes to work (Appendix 7).
Experience: The medical practitioner must have been in active clinical practice (30 hours per week) relevant to the vocational scope that the medical practitioner will be working in, for at least 24 out of the past 36 months.
Position: The medical practitioner may work in a specialist post for a maximum period of six months. If the medical practitioner intends to practise in New Zealand beyond six months he or she must apply for registration via the vocational scope of practice pathway.
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