Consultation: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
This consultation is now closed. Thank you to those who provided submissions. We are currently reviewing the submissions we received and will publish any updates here.
Thank you to those who provided submissions on the consultation: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification. The consultation submissions have been considered carefully by Council. Council has decided to change the requirement of ACLS certification for interns to:
- extend the Council’s recognition of ACLS certification validity from 12 to 18 months
- accept certificates issued by the New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) at the level of CORE Advanced as well as alternative courses that are at the standard of NZRC CORE Advanced
- require ACLS certification to be completed while registered and practising in the Provisional General scope of practice, as a PGY1 intern; and
- change the Gazette notice to provide for the ACLS requirement for PGY1 interns to be maintained and published in a policy document and to extend the Council’s recognition of ACLS certification validity from 12 to 18 months.
The 18-month timeframe and requiring ACLS completion while registered and practising in the Provisional General scope of practice, as a PGY1 intern, will take effect immediately.
We are currently developing an ACLS policy which will outline the new requirements for interns and set out the Council’s expectations of training providers delivering alternative ACLS courses. We will publish and share this once completed.
For the time being, prevocational training providers that deliver alternative courses may continue to do so.
If you have any questions, please contact us at education@mcnz.org.nz.
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Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa | the Medical Council of New Zealand (the Council) is considering making changes to the advanced life support (ACLS) requirement for interns in the Provisional General scope of practice (postgraduate year 1, or PGY1) interns.
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Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa | the Medical Council of New Zealand (the Council) considers it important that all interns have the knowledge and skills to manage and supervise resuscitation events and therefore we have a longstanding requirement that interns hold New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) CORE Advanced certification.