4 OCTOBER 2013 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 138 3767

complete a minimum of six months of medicine and six months of surgery during the provisional period. To avoid limitations on a medical practitioner’s general scope of practice, the following two options may apply:

Option 1

After the Council has received two positive supervision reports, the medical practitioner may be permitted to work in an area of medicine for which the medical practitioner does not have recent experience in a comparable health system. The medical practitioner must have a job offer:

• as a house officer or senior house officer (ie PGY1 or PGY2 level); and
• in a hospital accredited by the Council for the purposes of intern training to ensure the hospital is able to provide adequate support, training and education opportunities (ie tutorials). The medical practitioner does not need to work in accredited runs; and
• that has received sign off by the Chief Medical Officer at the hospital to ensure the role has adequate supervision and assessment.

Option 2

After the receipt of satisfactory supervision reports for the previous nine months (see (2) above), the medical practitioner may apply for a general scope without limitations if the practitioner had spent a period of at least six months working under supervision in a Council-approved general practice position.

Provisional vocational scope of practice

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

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 practice⁵

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 following special purpose scopes of practice) the additional prescribed criteria:

⁵ Time registered within a special purpose scope of practice will not be counted towards gaining registration within a provisional general, general, provisional vocational or vocational scope of practice in New Zealand, unless the IMG is registered on the locum tenens scope and granted eligibility for registration under the (provisional vocational) supervision pathway of a vocational scope.