NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 12

3 FEBRUARY 2012

Prescribed qualifications

Provisional general scope of practice

The medical practitioner must satisfy one of the following:

• Hold a primary medical degree from a New Zealand or Australian university medical school approved by the Council for the purposes of registration in New Zealand, and published on the Council’s website (Pathway 1)²;

• 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, 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, and have passed a medical examination approved by the Council for the purposes of applying to sit the New Zealand Registration Examination (NZREX)³ 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 NZREX, 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 and published on the Council’s website, 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 holds full or general registration, or is satisfactorily participating in a training programme recognised by the American Boards or the Canadian specialist colleges, or is registered by the Irish Medical Council as a specialist trainee. Applicants for this scope of practice must have worked during the required 36 months in the same or a similar area of medicine, and at a similar level of responsibility as that of the position for which they seek Council approval (Pathway 4).

General Scope of Practice

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 to be of a satisfactory standard; two of these three runs must be in different disciplines
• work for no less than 10 weeks’ full time equivalent out of each run
• certify as competent in cardiac life support as required by the Council’s policy
• be recommended for registration in a general scope by the Intern Supervisor.

B. Have been registered in a provisional general scope of practice, satisfied the conditions of the provisional general scope of practice and satisfied any pathway-specific conditions. That is:

Pathway 2 – holders of a primary medical degree from a university medical school accredited by a competent authority and who have one year of general medical experience under the jurisdiction of the competent authority must have:

2 Medical schools approved for all pathways will be identified through a website link to the Who Health Organisation’s AVICENNA Global Directories of Education Institutions for Health Professions.

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