✨ Medical Registration Requirements
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(4) Been recommended for registration within a general scope by his or her supervisor.
Provisional vocational scope of practice
A medical practitioner must have been assessed as:
(1) having qualifications, training and experience established to the Council’s satisfaction to be equivalent to, or as satisfactory as, that of a New Zealand vocationally-trained medical practitioner registered in the same vocational scope of practice; and
(2) being able to achieve registration in a vocational scope of practice within 18 months of obtaining registration in a provisional vocational scope of practice.
Vocational scopes of practice
A medical practitioner must:
(1) have the prescribed qualifications set out in the Appendix as necessary for the particular vocational scope of practice; or
(2) have postgraduate qualifications, training and experience as determined by the Council to be equivalent to or as satisfactory as the prescribed qualification for the particular vocational scope of practice; and
(3) complete the Council’s requirements for registration within a provisional vocational scope of practice.
Special purpose scopes of practice
Medical practitioner must:
(1) hold a primary medical degree from a university medical school approved from time to time by the Council for the purposes of registration in New Zealand in a special purpose scope of practice and published on the Council’s website; and
(2) obtain a position where appropriate supervision is available; and
(3) satisfy (for the relevant special purpose scope of practice) the criteria in one of the following:
A Teaching as a visiting expert
Medical practitioner must have been invited by an institution approved by the Medical Council, which has specified the nature of any patient contact.
B Postgraduate training
Medical practitioner must
(1) have medical registration in his or her own country, to which he or she will return on completion of the training; and
9 Night cover There will be some preliminary requirements the employer must satisfy before the medical practitioner is permitted to provide night cover as defined in the Policy for Doctors in New Zealand for postgraduate training in relation to working at nights.
Limit of trainees at any one centre At any one centre, trainees will make up no more than one out of three medical practitioners on the same service at any one time. (For example, out of a total of six medical registrars, no more than two will be trainees).
Period of registration Registration within the special purpose scope of practice postgraduate training pathway is limited to a single registration period, not exceeding two years. Time registered within a special purpose scope of practice will not be counted towards gaining registration within a provisional general, general or vocational scope of practice in New Zealand.
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