NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 8

29 JANUARY 2010

Prescribed qualifications

Provisional general scope of practice

A medical practitioner must satisfy one of the following:

• Hold a primary medical degree from a New Zealand or Australian university medical school approved from time to time by the Council for the purposes of registration in New Zealand, and published on the Council’s website (Pathway 1)⁡;

• Hold a primary medical degree from a university medical school accredited by a competent authority and medical schools approved by the Council for the purposes of registration in New Zealand and published on the Council’s website (see footnote 4), and have one year of general medical experience (Pathway 2);

• Hold a primary medical degree from a university medical school approved by the Council for the purposes of registration in New Zealand and published on the Council’s website (see footnote 4), and have passed a medical examination approved by the Council for the purposes of applying to sit the New Zealand Registration Examination (NZREX)⁵ and published on the Council’s website and, within five years of passing the medical examination have passed NZREX or an international registration examination approved by the Council as being of a comparable standard to NZREX⁶, and published on the Council’s website (Pathway 3);

• Hold a primary medical degree from a university medical school approved by the Council for the purposes of registration published on the Council’s website (see footnote 4), and have worked for 36 months (for at least 30 hours per week) during the 48 months prior to application in a health system comparable to New Zealand approved from time to time by the Council for the purposes of registration in New Zealand and published on the Council’s website (see footnote 4), where the applicant also either holds full or general registration or is satisfactorily participating in a training programme recognised by the American Boards or the Canadian specialist colleges. Applicants for this pathway will be required to work in a position for which the medical practitioner has appropriate experience (Pathway 4).

General Scope of Practice

A medical practitioner must satisfy one of the following:

A Hold a primary medical degree from a New Zealand or Australian university medical school and have completed an internship in New Zealand or Australia (Pathway 1)

If the medical practitioner completes an internship in New Zealand, the following requirements must be met before the medical practitioner is eligible for registration in a general scope of practice:

• work in a New Zealand hospital that has been accredited by the Council
• complete at least four three-month runs, including
  • one category A medical run
  • one category A surgical run
  • two other runs, which may be category A or B runs
  • have three consecutive runs immediately prior to applying for registration in a general scope where the medical practitioner’s performance is assessed

⁴ Medical schools approved for this and all other pathways will be identified by a combination of lists of approved schools, lists of schools not approved or through links to other websites.

⁵ See Council’s website www.mcnz.org.nz for further information about NZREX