NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 5 — 20 JANUARY 2017

Medical Schools (search.wdoms.org).

5. See the Council’s website, www.mcnz.org.nz, for further information about NZREX.

6. 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 International Medical Graduate is registered on the locum tenens scope and granted eligibility for registration under the (provisional vocational) supervision pathway of a vocational scope.

7. 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.)

8. 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. In addition:

   a. The programme must provide details on the training objectives and delivery, and on how the training will be monitored and outcomes measured.

   b. 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.

   c. Within an organisation other than a DHB, high level sign off is required from an appropriate person or organisation at the discretion of the Registration Manager.

   d. The proposed supervisor must provide details of the level of responsibility to be delegated to the trainee.

   e. The proposed supervisor must provide an induction and supervision plan including details of orientation.

   f. Supervision reports are to be provided to the Council for each three-month period.

   g. 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.

   h. Confirmation must be provided from the employer that the training will not be funded by the government funding agency.

9. Additional teleradiology scope of practice requirements:

   1. The medical practitioner must have a contract with a health provider located in New Zealand who has undertaken a comprehensive credentialing process for the medical practitioner prior to applying for registration.

   2. The New Zealand-based health provider must have a dispute resolution process to facilitate the fair, simple, speedy and efficient resolution of complaints. This process must include automatic notification of the relevant authorities in New Zealand and the medical practitioner’s home country should a complaint be received, and must also permit and facilitate external review and investigation by those authorities.

   3. The overseas facility the medical practitioner works for must be accredited by an appropriate accreditation body.

   4. Supervision for the medical practitioner is to be provided by the clinical director of the New Zealand health facility.

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