3768 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 138 4 OCTOBER 2013

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 training6

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

(2) either:

• be sponsored by or on behalf of a country or organisation to which the medical practitioner returns after the proposed period of training7; or
• have a formal postgraduate qualification accepted by the Council as indicating competence in the branch within which the medical practitioner will work in New Zealand; or
• be enrolled in a formal training programme in his or her own country; 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

(3) provide evidence that they are entering a formal, recognised scholarship or fellowship programme, with a structured supervision plan8; and

(4) have been registered and practising in their home/sponsor country for a minimum of one year immediately prior to their application (excluding Pacific island graduates, if they have been training in a different Pacific island health system at the time of their application because recognised medical training programmes are not available in their home/sponsor country).

C Research

A medical practitioner must be participating in a research project, for up to two years only, which has the approval of a formally-constituted ethics committee in New Zealand.

D Locum tenens

Medical practitioner must:

(1) have a postgraduate qualification approved by the Council and published on the Council’s website in the area of medicine in which the medical practitioner wishes to work. (See the Council’s website for list of approved qualifications.)

(2) have been in active clinical practice (for at least 20 hours per week) relevant to the vocational scope that the medical practitioner will be working in, for at least 22 out of the 36 months prior to application (in other words a minimum of 1,760 hours worked, counting a maximum of 40 hours per week and excluding on-call and overtime hours).

6 Night cover There are 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.)

7 The medical practitioner must have a guarantee of continuing employment in his or her home country at the completion of the period of training in New Zealand.

8

• The programme must provide detail on the training objectives and delivery, and on how the training will be monitored and outcomes measured.
• Within a District Health Board (DHB), the application must be approved by the Chief Medical Adviser of the DHB, confirming that the position is part of a formal, recognised scholarship programme of that institution.
• Within an organisation other than a DHB, high level signoff is required from an appropriate person or organisation at the discretion of the Registration Manager.
• The proposed supervisor must provide details of the level of responsibility to be delegated to the trainee.
• The proposed supervisor must provide an induction and supervision plan including details or orientation.
• Supervision reports are to be provided to the Council for each three-month period.
• The medical practitioner must provide a report to the Council at the end of three months, one year and two years which provides an update on the progress of meeting the training objectives, delivery and outcomes.
• Confirmation must be provided from the employer that the training will not be funded by the government funding agency.