NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 141 — 21 NOVEMBER 2014

supervision approved by the Council; and

2. received satisfactory supervision reports for the nine months of medical practice completed immediately
   prior to applying for registration within a general scope. Registration within a provisional scope will be
   extended for up to two years if the medical practitioner receives any poor supervision reports during their
   first year of registration, until the medical practitioner has received three consecutive satisfactory reports;
   and

3. been recommended for registration within a general scope by his or her supervisor.

Conditions limiting the medical practitioner’s practice may be imposed on the medical practitioner’s registration
in a general scope of practice if the medical practitioner does not 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 clinical attachments; 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

A medical practitioner must hold a primary medical degree from a university medical school approved from time to
time and published on the Council’s website. The medical practitioner must also hold an overseas postgraduate
medical qualification and this medical qualification must have been awarded at the end of a period of specialist
training and be in a recognised vocational scope, approved by the Council. The 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 no more than 18 months (full-time
   equivalent) 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. (a) have been approved for and hold provisional vocational registration; and
   (b) have completed the Council’s requirements for a change of scope from a provisional vocational to a
   vocational scope of practice.

Special purpose scopes of practice^5

A medical practitioner must:

1. hold a primary medical degree from a university medical school approved from time to time by the Council for

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