NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 141 — 21 NOVEMBER 2014

A medical practitioner must:

1. hold an acceptable primary medical qualification, be registered with the Council and hold a current practising certificate; or
2. have completed at least five years of study at a recognised New Zealand medical school; or
3. have previously been registered with the Council; or
4. hold satisfactory registration with another medical profession regulator; and
5. meet any other criteria set by the Registrar and published on the Council’s website or in such other way as is practicable.

G. Teleradiology

A medical practitioner must:

1. have a postgraduate qualification in radiology, approved by the Council and published on the Council’s website (see the Council’s website for list of approved qualifications); and
2. be registered in a jurisdiction where they are able to gain a postgraduate qualification approved by the Council and published on the Council’s website (see the Council’s website for list of approved qualifications); and
3. be providing radiology services under contract to a health provider located in New Zealand and be fully credentialled by the health provider(^9); and
4. have been in active clinical practice (20 hours per week) in the vocational scope of diagnostic and interventional radiology for at least 24 out of the last 36 months.

Endnotes

1. Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 4 October 2013, No. 138, page 3761

2. The special purpose scope of practice is time-limited and does not lead to any form of permanent registration. Time spent in supervised practice, under a special purpose scope of practice does not count towards the prescribed period of supervision for any permanent form of registration for which the medical practitioner subsequently applies, with the exception that time spent on the locum tenens scope may count towards the supervised practice requirements of the (provisional vocational) supervision pathway of a vocational scope.

3. Medical schools approved for the purposes of all scopes of practice will be identified through a Council website link to the World Directory of Medical Schools (search.wdoms.org).

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

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.

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 .

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 details 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 sign off is required from an appropriate person or

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