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Policy Statement
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Sections 16(a) and (b) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 require the Medical Council to ensure that any person given registration to practise medicine in New Zealand is able to communicate in and comprehend English sufficiently to protect the health and safety of the public, and for the purposes of practising within a scope of practice in which they are registered.
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Rationale
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Candidates applying to sit NZREX Clinical, and applicants for registration or assessment for registration, must have a reasonable ability to comprehend and communicate effectively in English in the medical workplace, as one of the pre-requisites for registration.
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Requirements
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Doctors applying to sit NZREX Clinical, and doctors applying for registration, will be required to have achieved an overall band of 7.5 or above in the academic module of
International English Language Testing System
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two years for new applicants and new NZREX candidates, or
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five years for repeat NZREX candidates.
A minimum band of 7 is required in each of the four individual components of the test (listening, reading, writing and speaking).
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TOEFL and OET
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The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and Occupational English Test (OET) are not accepted by the Council as alternatives to IELTS.
IELTS is the only English test approved by the Council.
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