NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 5 — 20 JANUARY 2017

Sexual health medicine

Concerned with healthy sexual relations, including freedom from sexually transmissible infections (STIs), unplanned pregnancy, coercion, and physical or psychological sexual discomfort. Its practice encompasses a wide range of factors that contribute to STIs, sexual assault, sexual dysfunction and fertility. It also promotes sexual health of the community through education, advocacy, screening and diagnostic testing. It has a clinical perspective and a public health approach. It includes the treatment of individuals and the contact tracing and treatment of their sexual partner(s).

Fellowship of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Physicians (FACSHP RACP)

Sport and exercise medicine

The medical care of the exercising individual, including the assessment and management of patients with musculoskeletal injuries and medical problems arising from sporting activity. Sport and exercise physicians possess expertise in general medicine, orthopaedics and rehabilitation plus allied sport sciences including nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology and sports psychology.

Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians (FACSP)

Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (FACSEP)

Urgent care

The primary care of patients on an after hours or non-appointment basis where continuing medical care is not provided.

Fellowship of the Accident and Medical Practitioners Association (FAMPA)

Fellowship of the College of Urgent Care Physicians (FCUCP)

Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care (FRNZCUC)

Urology

The diagnosis and treatment (operative and non-operative) of patients with disorders of the urinary tract in males and females, and male genital organs. It also includes the management of trauma to these organs and the management of male sterilisation, infertility and sexual dysfunction.

Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS)

Vascular surgery

The diagnosis and treatment (operative and non-operative, including endoluminal techniques and interventional procedures) of patients with disorders of blood vessels (arteries and veins outside the heart and brain) and the lymphatic system. It also includes the management of trauma and surgical access to the vascular system.

Endnotes

1. Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, 21 November 2014, Issue No. 141, Notice No. 2014-gs7072.

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. 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.

4. Medical schools approved for the purposes of all scopes of practice will be identified through a Council website link to the World Directory of