Accreditation - prevocational training

Under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA) the Medical Council of New Zealand (the Council) is required to accredit and monitor educational institutions that deliver medical training for doctors and to promote medical education and training in New Zealand.

The purpose of accreditation of training providers for prevocational medical training is to ensure that standards have been met for the provision of education and training for interns. Prevocational medical training spans the two years following graduation from medical school and includes both postgraduate year 1 (PGY1) and postgraduate year 2 (PGY2). Doctors undertaking this training are referred to as interns. Prevocational medical training is undertaken by all graduates of New Zealand and Australian accredited medical schools and doctors who have sat and passed NZREX.

The Council will accredit training providers for the purpose of providing prevocational medical education through the delivery of an intern training programme. Accreditation will be granted to those who have:

structures and systems in place to enable interns to meet the learning outcomes of the New Zealand Curriculum Framework for Prevocational Medical Training (NZCF)
an integrated system of education, support and supervision for interns
individual clinical attachments to provide a high quality learning experience.

Prevocational medical training accreditation reports

District Health Board	Status	Accredited until	Link to report
Auckland	Accredited	21 December 2018	Report 08/12/15
Canterbury	Accredited	30 April 2019	Report 12/04/16
Capital and Coast	Accredited	31 December 2020	Report 12/04/17
Counties Manukau	Accredited	12 October 2019	Report 12/10/16
Hawke's Bay	Accredited	8 August 2019	Report 08/08/16
Hutt Valley	Accredited	30 June 2020	Report 09/11/16
MidCentral	Accredited	30 June 2020	Report 12/10/16
Nelson Marlborough	Accredited	12 October 2019	Report 12/10/16
Northland	Accredited	30 October 2020	Report 11/10/17
South Canterbury	Accredited	21 December 2018	Report 08/12/15
Southern	Accredited	11 May 2019	Report 11/05/16
Tairāwhiti	Accredited	16 August 2020	Report 16/08/17
Taranaki	Accredited	30 October 2020	Report 11/10/17
Waikato	Accredited	30 March 2018	Report 13/09/17
Waitemata	Accredited	21 December 2018	Report 08/12/15
Whanganui	Accredited	14 June 2019	Report 14/06/16
Wairarapa	Accredited	13 December 2019	Report 13/12/16

Accreditation reports: Prevocational medical training

Prevocational medical training accreditation reports

Standards for accreditation of prevocational medical training: