Stairway to New Zealand

The steps

Before a doctor can register, he or she must do a self assessment of eligibility for registration on the medical council's website. “If the self assessment shows the doctor is not eligible he or she will be directed to the section on the registration examinations. If he or she is eligible, they can then look for a job, then submit their application. The application forms also have instructions on the process,” explains Jane Lui from the Medical Council of New Zealand. The doctor must send the application and all required documents to the employer, and the employer completes it and sends the whole file to the council for registration.

The sequence is as follows: be eligible for registration, get a job offer, and then get registered. You might wonder whether employers could be reluctant to offer you a job before you have registration. This does not seem to be the case, as they are well informed about the whole process. Jane Lui explains: “The council runs regular workshops for employers and recruitment agencies and we provide reference material on …