Doctors under supervision

Who must be supervised

Supervision means the monitoring of, and reporting on, the performance of a medical practitioner by a professional peer. The following doctors must be supervised:

Provisional general (excluding interns), provisional vocational and special purpose - all doctors registered within these scopes of practice must work under supervision.

Full details are available at induction and supervision for newly registered doctors (pdf)

Interns (new and NZREX graduates) - will have a nominated intern supervisor for the first 12 months working in New Zealand.

The Council handbook Education, training and supervision for interns (pdf)describes the Council's requirements for interns. It includes guidelines for the doctors and all individuals involved in their induction and training.

Run Evaluations for Interns

At the end of each run please use the Run Evaluation (interns) RP7 (pdf) to provide feedback to your employer. The information is confidential and will be used for continuous improvement.

Changing
supervisor or employer?

If you are working under supervision and you need to change your employer or supervisor, you must apply for a new APC using one of the following forms. For doctors registered within:

provisional general scope, use the - Application to change APC conditions COS1 (pdf)
provisional vocational scope, use the - Application to change APC conditions COS2 (pdf)

Progressing to general or
vocational
scope

When you have completed all of the supervision requirements, use one of the following forms to apply for a general or vocational scope.

Note: If you are registered within a provisional general scope and participating in the RNZCGP advanced vocational education (AVE) programme, contact your registration administrator or email registration@mcnz.org.nz for advice.

Further
information

For further information about supervision, please click here.

Who must be supervised

Run Evaluations for Interns

Changing
supervisor or employer?

Progressing to general or
vocational
scope

Further
information

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Who must be supervised

Run Evaluations for Interns

Changing supervisor or employer?

Progressing to general orvocational scope

Further information

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Changing
supervisor or employer?

Progressing to general or
vocational
scope

Further
information