Training

Your Training

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Training Costs

The costs of training lists were formulated and agreed to by NREG (National Engagement Group) as a standardised list of what should be reimbursed by the DHB in your pathway to obtain vocational training. Please note these lists are NOT exhaustive and you are entitled to reimbursement for training undertaken in the pathway to obtain a New Zealand or Australasian vocational scope of practice.

View the cost of training lists below:

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Anaesthetic

Anaesthetic Courses

  • APLS
  • NLS
  • PLS
  • EMAC
  • Airways Skills course
  • BASIC
  • PROMPT
  • EMST
  • Part 0 Anaesthetic Course
  • Part 1 (primary) exam VIVA course
  • Part 1 (primary) exam refresher course
  • Part 2 (final) exam VIVA course
  • Part 2 (final) exam refresher course
  • Part 3 anaesthetic course
  • PG Cert Teaching or Research
  • One Day Ultrasound Course
  • Māori Health Course
  • Regional USS course
  • ANZCA Hong Kong
  • Auckland City Symposium
  • Ultrasound/Echocardiography Course
  • Advanced Airway Management courses (e.g. BEYOND BASIC)
  • Mechanical Ventilation workshop
  • BATS Workshop
  • Grad Cert from Institutions outside of Aus and NZ:
    • Postgraduate Diploma in Perioperative Medicine – University College London
    • Master’s degree in Medical Education (or an embedded PGCert or PGDip if available) – University of Dundee
    • Graduate Certificate in University Teaching – University of Notre Dame
    • Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics – University of Notre Dame

Anaesthetic Textbooks

  • Anaesthesia training resources: Final exams (FEx)
    • 1,000 Practice MTF MCQs for the Primary and Final FRCA
    • Anaesthesiology Core Review: Part Two: ADVANCED Exam
    • CRQs for the Final FRCA
    • CRQs for the Final FRCA (OST)
    • Dr Podcast Scripts for the Final FRCA [ACCESS VIA INTERNET ARCHIVE]
    • Examination Anaesthesia: A Guide to the Final FANZCA Examination, 2e
    • The Final FRCA Short Answer Questions: A Practical Study Guide
    • Get Through Final FRCA: Single Best Answers
    • Interactive Cases for the Oral Boards
    • MCQs and SBAs in Intensive Care Medicine
    • Morgan & Mikhail’s Clinical Anaesthesiology Case
    • The Physics, Clinical Measurement and Equipment of Anaesthetic Practice for the FRCA, 2e
    • Preparing to Pass the FRCA: Strategies for Exam Success
    • SAQs for the Final FRCA
    • SBAs and MCQs for the Final FRCA
    • SBAs for the Final FRCA
    • Structured Oral Examination Practice for the Final FRCA
  • Anaesthesia training resources: Primary exams (PEx)
    • The ANZCA Primary Exam Companion
    • Essential Pharmacology for the ANZCA Primary Examination
    • Cover ArtThe First Year: What You Should Know After a Year of Anaesthesia Training (Revised Edition)
    • Anaesthesiology Core Review: Part One: BASIC Exam
    • Cardiovascular Physiology, 11e
    • Faust’s Anaesthesiology Review, 6e
    • Graphic Anaesthesia: Essential Diagrams, Equations and Tables for Anaesthesia, 2e
    • Miller’s Anaesthesia Review, 3e
    • The Physics, Clinical Measurement and Equipment of Anaesthetic Practice for the FRCA, 2e
    • Physics, Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthetists: Key Concepts for the FRCA, 2e
  • Oxford Handbook of Anaesthesia
  • Miller’s Anaesthesia
  • OH’s Intensive Care Manual
  • Statistical Methods for Anaesthesia & Intensive Care (PS Myles & T Gin)
  • Aesthetic pharmacology: basic principles and clinical practice / A S Evers, M Maze and E D Kharasch
  • Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology
  • Basic and Clinical Pharmacology / B G Katzung and A J Trevor
  • Goodman and Gilman’s the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (ed by LL Brunton)
  • Basic Physics and Measurement in Anaesthesia (Davis & Kenny)
  • Vander’s Renal Physiology (DC Eaton & JP Pooler)
  • Nunn’s Applied Respiratory Physiology (AB Lumb & JF Nunn)
  • Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials (JB West)
  • The Physiology Viva (Kerry Brandis)
  • Principles of Physiology for the Anaesthetist (I Power & P Kam)
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology (AC Guyton and JE Hall)
  • Review of Medical Physiology (WF Ganong)
  • Yao and Artusio’s “Anaesthesiology – Problem oriented patient management”
  • Pharmacology & Physiology in Anaesthetic Practice (RK Stoelting & SC Hillier)
  • Pharmacology and Physiology for Anaesthesia : foundations and clinical application / H C Hemmings, TD Egan
  • Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Peri- Operative Medicine / B Al-Shaikh, S Stacey
  • Examination Anaesthesia: a guide to final FANZCA examination / C Thomas, C Butler
  • Acute Pain Management : Scientific Evidence
  • Clinical Pain Management: Acute Pain
  • Basic & Clinical Biostatistics Beth Dawson, Robert G. Trapp
  • Pharmaceutics for the anaesthetist. RD MacPherson,
  • Clinical Monitoring: Practical Applications for Anaesthesia and Critical Care / CL Lake, RL Hines, CD Blitt
  • The Physics, Clinical Measurement and Equipment of Anaesthetic Practice for the FRCA / P Magee, M Tooley
  • A Practical Approach to Anaesthesia Equipment / JA Dorsch, SE Dorsch
  • Cardiovascular Physiology / A J Pappano, W G Wier
  • Cousins and Bridenbaugh’s Neural Blockade
  • Pharmacology for Anaesthesia & ICU
  • Clinical Anaesthesiology (Morgan and Mikhail)
  • Cardiovascular Physiology (RM Berne & MN Levy)
  • An introduction of Cardiovascular Physiology (JR Levick)
  • Dr Podcasts (drpodcast.co.uk) – all FRCA podcasts
  • Board Stiff: Preparation for Anaesthesia Orals: Expert Consult – Online and Print, 3e (Book & DVD) [Paperback]
  • Anatomy for Anaesthetists (Harold Ellis)
  • The ANZCA Primary Exam Companion (Lachlan Rathie)
  • Essential Pharmacology for the ANZCA Primary Examination (Petkov)
  • MAK95 membership
  • Adrenaline Memories online tutorials/teaching

Fees

  • One-off Registration
  • Annual Fee
  • Examination Fees
  • Standard College Fees
  • College Application Fee
  • College Registration Fee
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Dental

Dental Courses

  • RACDS orientation day
  • RACDS Primary Examination Orientation Course
  • NZ Society of Hospital and Community Dentistry Conferences
  • Radiation License
  • Graduate Professional Development Programme
  • NZDA Conference
  • Young Dentist Conference
  • Temporomandibular Dysfunction Course
  • Course Registration Posts Oral and Maxillo Facial Surgery
  • Dental Hospital Conference

Dental Textbooks

  • Netter’s Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry
  • Medical Embryology (Langman)
  • Basic Pathology (V Kumar et al)
  • Essential Microbiology for Dentistry (2nd Ed)
  • Human Oral Embryology and Histology
  • Oral Histology Development, Structure and Function
  • Clinical Oral Physiology (Miles et al)
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton et al)
  • Human Physiology – From Cells to Systems (L. Sherwood)
  • Medical Pharmacology at a Glance (MJ Neal)
  • Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (7th ed, SF Malamed)
  • Oral Bioscience (DB Ferguson)
  • Medical Biochemistry (1st ed)
  • Biochemistry (5th ed)
  • Text book of Biochemistry with Clinical Corrections (5th ed)
  • Biochemistry Basis of Medicine (3rd Ed)
  • Principles of Biochemistry (3rd Ed)
  • Biochemistry (3rd Ed, Matthews)
  • Biochemistry (3rd ed, Voet)
  • Biochemistry (4th ed, G. Zubay)

Fees

  • Annual College Fees
  • Exam Fees
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine Courses

  • ACLS
  • BASIC
  • Early Management of Severe Burns/EMSB
  • Emergency Management of Severe Trauma/EMST
  • ACEM university papers or research papers required for training
  • APLS or PALS
  • Introduction to Ultrasound course
  • Fellowship Examination Course
  • ACEM Trauma Course
  • 1 Primary Exam (pre-fellowship) Course
  • 1 Advanced USS Course
  • 1 Day Family Violence Course
  • Emergency Life Support
  • Teemwork – Training and Education in EM
  • Difficult Airway Course (including BEYOND BASIC)
  • PG Dip Surg Anat
  • PG Clinical Education Course
  • PG Courses such as resuscitation
  • Waikato Emergency Ultrasound course
  • Auckland Regional Ultrasound course
  • PROMPT
  • 1x OSCE course
  • ETM course
  • ACME course

Emergency Medicine Textbooks

  • Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine (Cameron P et al)
  • The Emergency Medicine Manual (Dunn R et al)
  • Emergency Medicine: A comprehensive study guide (Tintinalli)
  • Emergency Medicine: Concepts and clinical practice (Rosen, Mosby)
  • Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine (Cameron P et al)
  • Paediatric Emergency Medicine (Barkin)
  • Intensive Care Manual (Berstein AD, Soni N et al)
  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine (Braunwald)
  • Oxford Textbook of Medicine (Weatherall)
  • Textbook of Surgery (Clunie et al)
  • Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine (Roberts et al)
  • Toxic Plants and Animals: A guide for Australia (White)
  • Australian Animal Toxins (Sutherland et al)
  • Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons
  • Drug Guidelines (Various)
  • Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose (Haddad et al)
  • Health Science Research (JK Peat)
  • Toxicology Handbook Ed 1
  • Examination Emergency Medicine
  • Evidence-Based Practice across the Health Professionals
  • Practical Fracture Management (McRae)
  • Examination Medicine – a guide to physician training (Talley N et al)
  • ECG in Emergency Medicine & Acute Care (Chan)
  • Clinical Examination (Talley & O’Conner)
  • Emergency Radiology (Schwart DT & Residorff E)
  • Clinically Orientated Anatomy (Moore & Dalley)
  • McMinn’s Colour Atlas of Human Anatomy
  • Pathologic Basis of Disease (Contran, Kumar, Robbins)
  • Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)
  • Respiratory Physiology- The Essentials (West)
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton)
  • Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (Katzing)
  • Pharmacology for Health Professionals (Bryant and Knights)
  • The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (Hardman & Limbird)
  • ECG for the Emergency Physician 1 and 2 (Mattu)
  • EM RAP podcast
  • IM Educate Question Banks

Fees

  • MCQ Written and Oral Exam Fees
  • Primary exam fees
  • Annual College Fees
  • College Application Fee
  • College Registration Fee
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – General Medicine

General Medicine Courses

  • Airway Skills
  • Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises/EMAC
  • Emergency Management of Severe Trauma/EMST
  • PROMPT
  • PG Cert Travel Medicine
  • BASIC
  • RACP Annual Meeting/Congress
  • Annual attendance at Australasian Specialty Society Meeting
  • Membership of Relevant Australasian Society
  • IMSANZ Annual Meeting
  • Wellington Neurology Course
  • MCQ course e.g. Melbourne/Sydney DeltaMed or PhysEd
  • RACP NZ Trainee Days
  • RACP Two week pre-exam course
  • RACP Preparation Courses
  • RACP College Learning Series
  • Introduction to USS or POCUS course
  • Sanford Guide (Mobile app subscription)
  • UpToDate (Mobile app)
  • RACP Maaori trainee day

General Medicine Textbooks

  • Oxford Textbook of Medicine (Warrell)
  • The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
  • Refugee and Immigrant Health
  • Immigrant Medicine
  • Oxford handbook of haematology
  • Textbook of diabetes, Pickup and Williams
  • BNF – British National Formulary
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology (Guyton)
  • Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong)
  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
  • Tally & O’Connors Clinical Examination
  • Tally & O’Connors Examination Medicine
  • Up to Date Clinical Reference Library
  • Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment

Fees

  • IMSANZ Annual Subscription Fee
  • Annual College Fee
  • Training Fees
  • Exam Fees – RACP written and clinical
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – GP

GP Courses

  • Annual GP conference
  • Minor surgical training course for GPs
  • Family planning training for IUCD/Mirena/Jadelle and pessaries
  • O & G Diploma
  • Paediatrics Diploma
  • Sexual and Reproduction Medicine Diploma
  • GP Symposium
  • GPEP examination preparation workshops and mock examinations
  • Dermoscopy course

GP Textbooks

John Murtagh’s General Practice

Fees

  • GP College Fee
  • PRIMAX Exam Fee
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – ICU

ICU Courses

  • ADAPT
  • Emergency Airways
  • Part II Exam Course
  • ALS or APLS
  • Cardiac Echo
  • Donor Awareness Course
  • Part I Exam Course
  • BASIC
  • EMST
  • ANZICS Intensive Care Reg Course
  • ANZICS/CIM NZ IC Reg Course
  • Canberra ICU Course
  • CICM Single Theme meeting
  • Australasian ICM Conference
  • Australian Short Course ICM
  • Australian Intensive Care Clinical Refresher
  • College and Exam Fees
  • Part III course
  • CICM NZ Trainee Conference Day
  • Communication Course
  • Management Skills Course

ICU Textbooks

  • Oh’s Intensive Care Manual
  • Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine
  • Current Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment (FS Bongard et al)
  • Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine
  • Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult
  • Principles of Critical Care (JB Hall et al)
  • Textbook of Critical Care (MP Fink et al)
  • Civetta, Taylor and Kirby’s Critical Care
  • Talley and O’Conner Clinical Examination
  • Examination in Intensive Care Medicine(Carole Foot)
  • Anatomy for Anaesthetists (H Ellis et al)
  • Equipment for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (WJ Russell)
  • Rogers Handbook of Paediatric Intensive Care
  • Textbook of Paediatric Anaesthesia (Hodder Arnold Publication)
  • Oxford Textbook of Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications)
  • Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine Vol 1&2
  • Clinical Surgery (A Cuschieri et al)
  • Current surgical diagnosis and treatment (GM Doherty)
  • Haddad and Winchester’s Clinical management of poisoning and drug
  • overdose (MW Shannon et al)
  • Statistical methods in medical research (P Armitage et al)
  • Statistical methods for anaesthesia and intensive care (PS Myles et al)
  • Techniques in Bedside Hemodynamic monitoring (EK Daily et al)
  • Interpretation of diagnostic tests (J Wallach)
  • Gray’s Anatomy for Students, Drake
  • Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia
  • Smith and Aitkenhead Textbook of Anaesthesia
  • Miller’s Anaesthesia
  • Basic and clinical pharmacology, Katzung
  • Goodman & Gillman’s pharmacological basis for therapeutics
  • Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology
  • Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (Smith)
  • Goodman and Gillman’s Pharmacological Basis for Therapeutics
  • Principles of Measurement and Monitoring in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
  • Basic Physics and Measurement in Anaesthesia (Davis)
  • Clinical Monitoring: Practical Application for Anaesthesia and Critical Care (Lake et al)
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology. Guyton
  • Ganong’s review of medical physiology
  • Principles of Physiology for the Anaesthetist, Kam
  • Data Interpretation in Intensive Care (Venkatesh et al)
  • Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology
  • Nunn’s Applied Respiratory Physiology
  • Respiratory Physiology – the Essentials (West)
  • Clinical Surgery (A Cuschieri et al)
  • Textbook of Paediatric Anaesthesia (Hodder Arnold Publication)
  • Current Critical Care Diagnosis and Treatment (FS Bongard et al)
  • Difficulties in Tracheal Intubation (IP Latto)
  • Scientific foundations of anaesthesia: the basis of intensive care (C Scurr)
  • Cardiothoracic Critical Care (David Sidebotham et al)

Fees

  • Annual fee
  • Exam fees
  • Std college fees
  • College Application Fee
  • College Registration Fee
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Medical Oncology

Medical Oncology Courses

  • FRACP – 2 week pre-exam course
  • Paediatric Oncology Course (Sydney)
  • Paediatric Haematology/Oncology SIOP Meeting
  • NZ National Regional Training Workshops + communication workshop
  • RANZCR NZ Branch Meeting
  • NZ Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Scientific Meeting
  • RANZCR Exam Prep courses (Melbourne)
  • RANZCR Phase 1 workshops
  • Advance Care Planning Training course (level 2 certification)
  • ACCORD biannual workshop (condition on being selected for the course)
  • Pre-ACCORD workshop (NZ)
  • ANZUP Conference – master class
  • Preceptorships – aimed at senior trainees
  • NZSO Conference
  • ASCO annual conference
  • COSA annual conference
  • MOGA ASM
  • Any of the following if presenting a poster or presentation:
    • AGITG
    • ANZBCTG
    • ANZUP
    • ALTG
    • ANZGOG
  • ESMO membership
  • OncologyPro membership (if not included as part of ESMO membership)
  • ESMO annual conference
  • ESMO Asia

Medical Oncology Textbooks

  • Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology (T Vencent, M De Vita)
  • Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • Oxford Textbook of Oncology (Peckham, Pinedo, Veronesi)
  • Cancer Chemotherapy and Biotherapy: Principles and Practice (Chabner)
  • Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications)
  • AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (Fleming)
  • AJCC Cancer Staging Book: For the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (Flemming)
  • Clinical Cancer Genetics: Risk Counselling and Management (Offit)
  • ASCO Cancer Genetics Curriculum
  • UP to Date Online Resource/CD ROM
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology (De Vita, Hellman and Rosenberg)

Fees

  • Annual Training Fee
  • Annual College membership fee
  • Exam Fees
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Medical Sub-Specialties

All Sub-Specialties Courses

  • Wellington Neurology Course
  • Dunedin RACP Clinical Examination Revision Course
  • Annual attendance at local (NZ) specialty society branch or college (NZ) annual meeting (incl trainee days) in each year of training
  • Attendance at Australasian specialty society branch or college annual meeting (incl trainee days)
  • Membership of relevant Australasian specialty society
  • RACP Annual Trainees Day
  • The Dunedin Clinical Exam Preparation Course
  • FRACP 2 week Pre-Exam Course (Dunedin, Sydney or Melbourne)
  • Compulsory courses run by college in Australia
  • MCQ course e.g. Melbourne/Sydney DeltaMed or PhysEd
  • Dunedin RACP Clinical Examination Revision Weekend
  • Attendance at meetings outside NZ / Australia
  • RACP College Learning Series lectures
  • Introduction to USS or POCUS course
  • Airway Skills
  • EMAC
  • EMST
  • PROMPT
  • BASIC

Fees for all subspecialties

  • Registration fees
  • Annual Fee
  • Examination Fees
  • Standard College Fees
  • College Application Fee
  • College Registration Fee
  • College Interview Fees
  • Society Membership Fees

Cardiology Courses

  • ECHO (Australia)
  • CSANZ NZ ASM
  • AHA Meeting (USA)
  • ACC Meeting (USA)
  • ESC Meeting (Europe)
  • ANZET Conference
  • CSANZ Conference

Dermatology Courses

  • NZ Dermatologic Society Annual meeting/conference

Gastroenterology Courses

  • Introduction to Endoscopy (Auckland)
  • NZ Society of Gastroenterology Abdominal Ultrasound Course
  • Safe Sedation Training Online Course (Online)
  • AGA/ACG/UEGW Postgraduate course (1 only during training)
  • NZ Society of Gastroenterology meeting – NZ
  • AGW- Australia)
  • DDW- USA (1 during training
  • UEGW- Europe (1 during training)
  • Monthly National Teaching Course

Geriatrics (AT&R) Courses

  • RACP Dip in Palliative Care
  • ANZSGM Annual Retreat
  • ANZSGM Training Weekend
  • ANZSGM ASM
  • Masterclass Diseases of the Ageing Brain
  • Australasian Geriatric Subspec meeting
  • AFRM External Training Modules
  • AFRM ASM and conference
  • ANZCoS ASM
  • IMSANZ
  • World Congress for NeuroRehab ASM
  • Musculoskeletal Course Workshop
  • Stroke Society of ANZ ASM
  • Upper and Lower Limb Prosthetic Courses
  • Training Sessions at Rehab Centres

Obstetric Courses

  • ISOM Scientific Meeting
  • PROMPT
  • SOMANZ Membership
  • ADIPS ASM
  • SOMANZ Annual Membership
  • Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy Congress
  • PG Cert Women’s Health

Palliative Care Courses

  • ANZPSM Conference
  • Attendance at an International Meeting
  • NZ Pain Society ASM
  • Hospital Palliative Care MZ Annual Meeting
  • Professional Supervision
  • Hospice NZ Biennial Conference
  • RACP Dip in Palliative Care
  • Wellington Neurology Course
  • CETU Short Case Mock Exam
  • RACP PEP Lecture Series
  • RACP Trainee Days in NZ
  • Dunedin Clinical Exam Prep Course
  • FRACP 2-week pre-exam course
  • Compulsory Melbourne Course
  • Annual attendance at NZ or Australasian society meeting

Rehabillitation Courses

  • Burns Course (Aus)
  • Orthotic Course (Aus)
  • Musculoskeletal Course
  • FIM Training
  • Spinal ASIA Online
  • AFRM Annual Training Meeting
  • RMSANZ
  • OSCE Prep Course
  • AFRM External Behavioural Science
  • AFRM External Clinical Neuro-Psychology
  • International Society of Physical and Rehab Med Conf
  • Upper and Lower Limb Prosthetic Courses (Australia)
  • AFRM ASM
  • AFRM External Admin Course
  • National Training Day
  • AFRM NZ Branch Conf and Meeting

Renal Courses

  • International Nephrology Meeting
  • ASN Board Review Course
  • Transplant Society of ANZ PG Course
  • PG Dip Nephrology
  • ANZ Soc of Nephrology ASM etc.

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Courses

  • RCPA ‘Viruses in May’
  • Mycology master class
  • RCPA Pathological Science Course
  • RCPA Pathology Update
  • ASID ASM
  • NZ ASID Meeting
  • ASA Meeting
  • Compulsory Melbourne Courses

Endocrinology Courses

  • NZSE clinical meeting + trainee day (all meetings
  • NZSSD (at least once during training period)
  • one American or European Endocrine meeting OR Clinical Endocrinology Update with Board Review Course (preferably during final year of training)
  • Endocrine Society of Australia Seminar Meeting (at least once during advanced training)
  • one clinical bone densitometry course
  • Bone meeting e.g. Rotorua bone meeting, ANZBMS annual meeting (one meeting during training period)
  • any additional NZ endocrine/diabetes trainee days

Clinical Immunology and Allergy

  • Basic Sciences Course (1 during advanced training
  • Annual NZCIAG attendance
  • Annual Trainees day attendance
  • Immunodeficiency course or conference (1 during advanced training)
  • Allergy conference (1 during advanced training)

Neurology

  • Australian Postgraduate Course in Neuropathology Course
  • ANZAN EEG Course
  • ANZAN EMG Course
  • Neurovision Neuro-Ophthalmology
  • AAN meeting (1 throughout training)
  • AAN Membership
  • ANZAN Annual Scientific meeting or NANZ (yearly)
  • RITE exam

Respiratory

  • NZ Specialty Branch Meeting
  • College Meeting including Trainee Days
  • Bronchoscopy and Pleural Ultrasound Course (TSANZ endorsed)
  • American Thoracic Society Meeting
  • European Respiratory Society
  • Asia Pacific Society of Respiratory Congress

Rheumatology

  • EULAR Online Rheumatology Course

Cardiology Textbooks

  • Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography (C Otto)
  • Oxford Handbook of Echocardiography
  • Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Paediatric Cardiology for practitioners (M Park)
  • Electro Physiologic Testing (R Fogoros)
  • A Practical Guide to Cardiac Pacing (H Moses, B Miller)
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease: A Practical Guide by Gatzoulis
  • Grossman’s Cardiac Catheterization, Angiography, and Intervention (Donald S.
  • ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Feigenbaum’s Echocardiography (William F. Armstrong et al)

Dermatology Textbooks

  • Robinson’s. Surgery of the Skin
  • Dermatologic Surgery
  • Weedon’s. Skin Pathology
  • Pathology of the Skin
  • Practical Dermatopathology
  • Dermatology E-Dition (Jean Bologna)
  • Textbook of Dermatology (Rook)
  • Fitzpatrick’s Dermatology in General Medicine

Immunology Textbooks

  • Janeway’s Immunobiology (7th ed) Murphy, Travers, Walport
  • Allergy Textbook
  • Clinical Immunology/Immunopathology textbook

Neurology Textbooks

  • Neurological Differential Diagnosis (Patten)
  • Adams and Victors Principles of Neurology
  • Current Practice of Clinical Electroencephalography (J Pedley)
  • The Human Nervous System (Noback)
  • Escourolle and Poirier’s Manual of Basic Neuropathology
  • Electrodiagnosis in Diseases of Nerve and Muscle
  • Clinical Examinations in Neurology

Obstetric Textbooks

  • Maternal Medicine: Medical Problems in Pregnancy’ edited by Ian A. Greer, Catherine NelsonPiercy, Barry Walters
  • ‘Medications and Mother’s Milk’ Thomas Hale
  • ‘Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation’ Briggs, Freeman, Yaffe
  • Web based teratology paid sites: ‘TERIS’ or REPROTOX
  • Handbook of Obstetric Medicine (Nelson-Piercy)
  • de Swiet’s Medical Disorders in Obstetric Practice (Powrie, Greene)

Palliative Textbooks

  • ABC of Palliative Care (Marie Fallon et al)
  • CBT for Chronic Illness and Palliative Care : A workbook and toolkit (Nigel Sage et al)
  • Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care (2017) (Kissane, Butz et al)
  • Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (ed Watson) 2019
  • Oxford Textbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care (2017) (Kissane, Butz et al)
  • Textbook of Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care (Bruera, Higginson, von Gunten, Morita)
  • Harrison’s Textbook
  • The OxfordTextbook of Palliative Medicine by Hanks et al
  • Oxford Handbook of Oncology by Cassidy et al
  • Oncology for Palliative Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) 2003 by Peter
  • Hoskin
  • Palliative Care for Non-cancer Patients (Julia M. AddingtonHall et al)
  • Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine (Harvey Max Chochinov et al) 2011

Rehabilitation Medicine Textbooks

  • Examination Medicine (Talley & O’Connor)
  • Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities (Hoppenfeld)
  • Orthopaedic Neurology: A Diagnostic Guide to Neurologic Levels (Hoppenfeld)
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Fractures (Hoppenfeld et al)
  • Amputations and Prosthetics: A Case Study Approach (May et al)
  • Orthotics in Rehabilitation: Splinting the Hand and Body (McKee et al)
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pocketpedia for Pda (Choi et al)
  • Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Frontera & Silver)
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Secrets, 2nd Ed (O’Young)
  • A Textbook of Rehabilitation Medicine (Delisa)
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Hand Book of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Braddom)
  • McRae ‘Clinical Orthopaedic Examination’
  • Amputations and Prosthetics – A Case Study Approach
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Board Review
  • Talley and O’Connor A Guide to physician training
  • Clinically Oriented Anatomy (Moore)
  • Medical Physiology (Guyton)
  • Pathology (Robins)
  • Clinical Sciences for Surgeons (Marshall & Ludbrook)
  • Harrison’s Principals of Internal Medicine Physical Medicine and Rehabiliation Clinical Orthopaedic Examination (McRae)
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: The Complete Approach (Grabois et al)

Renal Textbooks

  • Handbook of Kidney Transplantation
  • Handbook of Dialysis
  • The Kidney (Brenner)
  • Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology (Johnson)

Respiratory Textbooks

  • Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Murray and Nadel)
  • West’s Pulmonary Pathophysiology
  • A clinicans Guide to Sleep Medicine (Neil Douglas)
  • Sheersons sleep text
  • West’s Respiratory Physiology

Rheumatology Textbooks

  • Rheumatology, Hohbery: Book/Electronic Media
  • Kelly’s Textbook of Rheumatology: Book/Electronic Media

Infectious Diseases Textbooks

  • Prinicples and Practice of Infectious Diseases
  • Manual of Clinical Microbiology
  • Manson’s Tropical Disease
  • Tropical Infectious Diseases

Geriatrics Textbooks

  • Clinically Oriented Anatomy (K Moore)
  • Medical Physiology (Guyton)
  • Pathology (Robins)
  • Examination Medicine (Talley and O’Connor)
  • Medicine and Rehabiliation Clinical Orthopaedic Examination (McRae)
  • Physical Examination of the Spine and Extremities (Hopenfeld)
  • Orthopaedic Neurology: A Diagnostic Guide to Neurologic Levels (Hoppenfeld)
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Fractures (Hoppenfeld,
  • Amputations and Prosthetics: A Case Study Approach
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Pocketpedia for Pda
  • Orthotics in Rehabilitation: Splinting the Hand and Body
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Secrets, 2nd Ed
  • Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Textbook of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Hand Book of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Braddom)
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: The Complete Approach (Grabois et al)
  • UpToDate Subscription
  • Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians.
  • The Oxford Clinical Handbook of Geriatric Medicine

Gastroenterology Textbooks

  • Schiffs Diseases of the Liver
  • Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease (Sleisenger & Fordtran)

Endocrinology Textbooks

  • Harrison’s Principle of Internal Medicine
  • Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology & Diabetes
  • Up to date Clinical Reference Library – CD ROM – 3 year
  • William’s Textbook of Endocrinology (Wilson)
  • Endocrinology (DeGroot & Jameson)

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Non-Specialty

Non Specialty Courses

  • • EMST/ATLS
    • ASSET
    • CLEAR
    • APLS
    • NLS
    • CCrISP
    • Advanced Te Reo Courses
    • PRIDOC Conference – Maori Health
    • Te ORA’s annual Hui-a-Tau
    • Annual Pasifika Medical Association Conference
    • ACLS
    • UpToDate membership

Fees for examination, registration, membership, training, interview, and application for college or society.

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – O&G

O&G Courses

  • Week Long pre-exam (Australia)
  • RANZCOG Fetal Surveillance
  • RANZCOG Cultural Competence
  • RANZCOG Ultrasound
  • RANZCOG Communications
  • RANZCOG Indigenous Conf
  • Advanced Laparoscopy at Auckland
  • Pre-exam courses for OSCE Exams
  • PROMPT
  • ALSO
  • RANZCOG ASM
  • RANZCOG Trainee Workshop
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Course
  • MOET
  • Australian Institute of Ultrasound Course
  • ASCCP all course, workshops etc.
  • OASIS Course
  • Anatomy of Complications Workshop
  • Update Courses
  • PG Dip O&G (all costs)
  • RANZCOG Reg Workshop
  • RANZCOG Lapsim Course
  • RANZCOG ‘Mock’ OSCE – NZ and Aus
  • Laparoscopic Box Simulator up to $800
  • Laparoscopic trainer kits and accessories
  • All Conferences, workshops, courses, meetings, trainee days for: NZGCG, FSA, CREI, NZMFM, SOMANZ, UGSA
  • SWEC Course
  • Academia Medical Intensive OSCE revision course
  • RANZCOG Basic Surgical Skills
  • Vaginal Surgical Skills Course – Townsville
  • Pre-oral exam Course – Brisbane
  • ASC Courses – Ectopic, Perineal, 3rd/4th Degree Repair
  • FSEP App
  • ALSO Instructor Course
  • ALSO Provider Course
  • AGES Advanced Lap
  • Minimal Access Surgery Course
  • PG Dip Women’s Health
  • K2 fetal monitoring course
  • RANZCOG update days
  • AGES Conferences
  • LLETZ Workshop
  • RANZCOG Foundation of obstetric skills course
  • Elevation to FRANZCOG
  • ACLS course – Advanced Cardiac Life Support
  • Fetal medicine updates – NZMFMN (Maternal Fetal Medicine Network)
  • CCrISP course – Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient
  • RANZCOG research skills workshop
  • RANZCOG education day
  • RANZCOG anatomy workshop
  • PGCertHSc in Women’s Health or PGCert Women’s Health (NZ university)
  • EFM Master Tutor – fetal surveillance
  • King Edward Memorial Hospital Fetal Monitoring
  • PSN FONT – Fetal Welfare, Obstetric emergencies and Neonatal Resuscitation Training
  • IntilliLearn Electronic Fetal Monitoring/CTG
  • PIMS
  • AIMS
  • REOT
  • NOVICE
  • MANE
  • RANZCOG symposium
  • PSANZ conferences/meetings

 

O&G Textbooks

  • Contraception – Your Questions Answered (John Guillebaud)
  • UpToDate subscription (and mobile app subscription)
  • Examination in O&G (Goh and Flynn)
  • Training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology – the Essential Curriculum (Surris, Saxena and
  • Bewley)
  • Fetal Growth and Development (Harding)
  • Before we are Born – Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects (Moore and Persaid)
  • A Manual of Clinical Colposcopy (Julian, Vaille)
  • William’s Obstetrics (Cunningham, MacDonald)
  • Handbook of Obstetric Medicine (Nelson–‐Piercy)
  • High Risk Pregnancy (David K James)
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine (Creasy and Resnik)
  • Berek and Novak’s Gynaecology (Berek)
  • Clinically Oriented Anatomy (Moore)
  • TeLindes Operative Gynaecology
  • Obstetric Ultrasound: How, Why, and When? (Chudleigh)
  • Callen’s Ultrasonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Manual of Pelvic Surgery (Webb)
  • Clinical Gynaecologic Oncology (DiSaia and Creasman)
  • Berek and Hacker’s Gynaecologic Oncology
  • Clinical Gynaecologic Endocrinology and Infertility (Speroff)
  • Antenatal consults: A guide for Neonatologists and Paediatricians (Mark Davies)
  • Comprehensive Gynaecology
  • Gynaecologic Surgery (Luis E Sanz)
  • Practical Gynaecologic Oncology (JS Berek & NF Hacker)
  • Practice OSCEs in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: a guide for the medical student and MRANZCOG
  • exams (Weston, Vollenhoven and McNeilage)
  • Interpreting Umbilical Cord Gases (Pomerance)
  • Modern Colposcopy Textbook and Atlas, ASCCP (Mayeaux, Cox)
  • Colposcopy: A Practical guide (Shafi, Nazeer)
  • Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies (Simpson, Driscoll et al)
  • William’s Gynaecology
  • Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynaecologic Surgery (Baggish and Karram)
  • Principles and practice of gynecologic Oncology
  • Current Diagnosis &Treatment Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Obstetrics Gynaecology & Women’s Health (Vivienne O’Connor & Gabor Kovacs)
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Ed. King K Holmes)
  • Colour Atlas of Colposcopy (Cecil Wright)
  • Management of Perinatal Infections
  • Novaks Gynaecology
  • RANZCOG FSEP practical guide Assessing Fetal Wellbeng
  • RANZCOG Practice OSCE in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Laparoscopic Box Trainer
  • Turnbull’s Obstetrics (Chamberlain and Steer)
  • Textbook of Gynecology (Copeland LJ)
  • Gynecelogy 3rd Edition (RW Shaw, WP Soutter et al)
  • Clinical Manual of Pelvic Surgery (MJ Webb)
  • Fees
  • Annual College Training Fees
  • Written and Oral Exam fees
  • In Hospital Clinical Assessments for Diagnostic Ultrasound and Colposcopy
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • RANZCOG Fees
  • College Interview Fees

Fees

  • Annual College Training Fees
  • Written and Oral Exam fees
  • In Hospital Clinical Assessments for Diagnostic Ultrasound and Colposcopy
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • RANZCOG Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology Courses

  • Ophthalmic Pathology Registrar Conference and Courses
  • Part 2 Course
  • Opt Reg Conf (Sydney Eye Hospital)
  • RANZCO Branch Conference
  • Advanced Pathology Course
  • RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress
  • International Congress on Ophthalmology
  • Microsurgical Skills (Sydney)
  • Part 1 Physiology Course
  • SET Interviews
  • College exams and fees
  • ANZGIG Glaucoma Reg Teaching
  • Neurovision Training Weekend
  • PG Dip in Ophthalmic Basic Sciences
  • Annual NZ Training Weekends
  • Annual registrar conferences
  • Save Sight meeting
  • Annual ocular motility course
  • Ophthalmology Microsurgery Laboratory Course and EyeSI Surgical Simulator
  • Women in Vision Annual Conference

Ophthamology Textbooks

  • Clinical Ophthalmology (Kanski)
  • Adlers Physiology of the Eye
  • Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong Norwalk)
  • Biochemistry of the Eye (Whikehart Newton)
  • Clinical Ophthalmology (Yanoff & Duker)
  • Wills Eye Manual
  • Wills Eye Hospital Staff
  • Manual of Systematic Eyelid Surgery (Cillin)
  • Ophthalmic Clinical Examination by Adrian Fung
  • Clinical Optics, 3rd Edition Andrew Elkington, Helena Frank, Michael Greaney
  • Clinical Anatomy of the Eye (Snell & Lamp)
  • The Eye: Basic Sciences in Practice (Forrester et al)
  • Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology (Levinson)
  • The Eye and Visual Optical Instruments (Smith & Atchison)
  • Last Minute Optics: A concise review of optics, refraction, and contact lenses (Hunter & West)
  • Techniques in Opthalmic Plastic Surgery with DVD : a personal tutorial (Nerad)
  • AAO Basic and clinical science course (13 vols)
  • Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology (Alistair Denniston et al)
  • The Neuro-ophthalmology Survival Guide: The survival guide for every Ophthalmologist

 

Fees

  • Exam Fees
  • RANZCO Anatomy Exam
  • COPEM Exam
  • Other exams e.g. physiology, optics, OBCK, Pathology, RACE
  • Vocational Training Exam
  • Annual College Fees
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Paediatrics

Paediatrics Courses

  • PG Dip in Public Health
  • FRACP Exam Prep Course
  • Immunology for Basic Physician Trainees
  • Australian Paediatric Endocrine Group Fellow’s School
  • Griffiths Developmental Course
  • Neonatal Echocardiography Course
  • RACP Professional Skills Meeting
  • RACS AAAPS Annual Trainee Retreat
  • RACS Annual Scientific Congress
  • NZ Paediatric Starship Update
  • PSANZ membership fees
  • PSANZ conference
  • RACP Advanced Training Fee
  • Application for Fellowship Fee
  • Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development (BSID)
  • College application, registration, and interview fees
  • Australian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine Fees
  • Development Block Course
  • Paediatric Epilepsy Training – NZ Only
  • RACP Trainees Days
  • PG Dip in Paediatrics
  • Paediatric Diploma of Child Health
  • MEDSAC (course and membership)
  • Newborn Life Support
  • APLS
  • LearnMed
  • FRACP teaching Course
  • FRACP Exam Course
  • Paediatric Society of NZ ASM
  • George Abbott Symposium
  • Physical Abuse Course
  • Paediatric Society of NZ Fee
  • MEDSAC conference
  • NZ General paediatric Forum
  • NLS course including for SHOs
  • FINE program (RACP website)
  • Genetics for Trainees Course in preparation for FRACP exams

Paediatrics Textbooks

  • Std General Paeds Text (Nelsons)
  • Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials. John B. West
  • Up To Date Clinical Reference Library
  • Smith’s Recognizable Patterns of Human Malformation (Kenneth Lyons Jones)
  • Before We Are Born – Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects (Moore Persaud)
  • From Birth to Five Years – Childrens Developmental Progress (Mary Sheridan)
  • Essential Revision Notes in Paediatrics for the MRCPCH (Beattie and Champion
  • Concise Paediatrics (Sidwell & Thompson)
  • Examination Paediatrics (Harris)
  • Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (BG Katzung – Appleton & Lange)
  • Goodman and Gilman’s the pharmacological basis of therapeutics (JG Harman et al)
  • Pharmacology (HP Rang)
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology (AC Guyton & JE Hall)
  • Review of Medical Physiology (Ganong – Appleton & Lang)
  • Clinical Examination (NJ Talley, S O’Connor – McLennan+Petty)
  • Paediatric Surgery vol 2
  • Rob & Smiths Pediatric Surgery
  • Clinical Paediatric Urology
  • Clinical Paediatric Surgery: Diagnosis & Management
  • Ashcraft’s Paediatric Surgery
  • Paediatric Thoracic Surgery
  • Avery’s Neonatology – Pathophysiology and Management of the Newborn
  • Robertson’s Textbook of Neonatology
  • Neonatal Cardiac ECHO CDs
  • Neonatal Head Ultrasound CD
  • Paediatric Endocrinology (Sperling)
  • Endocrinology, Adult and Paediatric (Jameson and De Groot)
  • AM:STARs: advances in the treatment of endocrine disorders in adolescents
  • Robertson’s Textbook of Neonatology
  • Textbook of Paediatrics (Nelson – Behman)
  • Rudolph’s Paediatrics (AM Rudolph – Appleton & Lange)
  • Forfar and Arneils Textbook of Paediatrics
  • Paediatric Cardiology Handbook (Myung and Park)
  • Paediatric Secrets (Richard Polin)
  • McLeod’s Clinical Examination (JF Munro)
  • Examination Paediatrics (Harris)

 

Fees

  • RACP Advanced Training Fee
  • Vocational registration to MCNZ
  • Application for Fellowship fee
  • RACP Fee
  • Paediatric Society of NZ fee
  • DSAC (Drs for Sexual Abuse Care) membership
  • Fellowship Entrance Fee
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees
  • Australian Society of Ultrasound in Medicine

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Pathology

Anatomical Courses

  • RCPA Pathological Science Course
  • Pathological Sciences Seminar
  • Alfred Hospital Anatomical Pathology Workshop
  • NZ Forensic Service Weekend
  • NZ Registrar Training Weekend
  • Laverty Cytology
  • UoWS Cytology
  • NZ ASM
  • RCPA Pathology Update
  • IAP Meeting
  • RMH Workshop
  • RPAH Diagnostic Surg
  • Short course in genomic and molecular pathology
  • UoWS Surgical Pathology Course
  • Adelaide Small Biopsy Workshop
  • Small biopsy course (e.g. St Vincents)

Chemical Courses

  • NZ ASM
  • AACB Conference
  • RCPA AACB Course
  • RCPA Pathology Update
  • Introductory short course in genomic and mol. path.

Genetics Courses

  • Neuropathology Course
  • Gynae Symposium
  • IAP ASM
  • Chemical Pathology Course (Perth)
  • RCPA Path Update
  • RCPA Path Science Course
  • Human Genetics Society of Australasia ASM

Haematology Courses

  • RCPA Pathology Update
  • HSANZ Branch Meeting
  • HSANZ Annual Meeting
  • American Society of Haematology ASM
  • HSANZ Scientific Meeting
  • European Haematology Assoc. Scientific Congress
  • International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific Meeting
  • Introductory short course in genomic and mol. path.

Forensic Courses

  • RCPA Update
  • RCPA NZ ASM
  • RCPA Forensic Interim Meeting
  • RCPA Forensic toxicology course
  • VIFM Post-mortem CT course
  • NZ Forensic/ Coronial Pathology Seminar
  • RCPA introduction to Forensic Pathology / Autopsy
  • Human Osteology Course
  • Expert Witness Training and Report Writing
  • ANZFSS Conference
  • Basic Neuropathology Course
  • Radiopedia

Immunopathology Courses

  • ICPMR course, Sydney (May)
  • RCPA Pathology Update meeting, Australia (March)
  • ASCIA (September)
  • RCPA NZ ASM

Microbiology Courses

  • RCPA Pathological Science course
  • Dacie & Leis Practical Haematology
  • Bain: Clark, Lampert: Bone Marrow Pathology
  • Bain: Haemoglobinoapthy Diagnosis
  • Hathaway & Goodnight: Disorders of Haemostasis & Thrombosis
  • Harmening: Modern Practice of Blood Banking

Microbiology Textbooks

  • Viruses and Human Disease (Strauss)
  • Medical Microbiology (D Greenwood)
  • Bailey and Scott Diagnostic Microbiology
  • Mandell’s Principles and Practice of Infectious diseases , current edition
  • Red Book Paediatric Infectious Diseases – current edition
  • Molecular Microbiology- Diagnostic principles and practice – current edition
  • ASM Clinical Virology , Editor Richman – current edition
  • Manual of Microbiology (PR Murray et al)
  • Koneman’s Colour Atlas & Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology
  • Medically important Fungi; a guide to identification
  • Diagnostic Medical Parasitology (Garcia)
  • Infection Prevention and Control textbook as discussed with training supervisor

Forensic Textbooks

  • Dolinak – Forensic Pathology
  • Cummings – Atlas of Forensic Histopathology
  • DiMaio – Gunshot wounds – Practical aspects of firearms, ballistics, and forensic techniques
  • Karch & Drummer, Karch’s Pathology of Drug abuse
  • Oehmichen, Auer, Konig – Forensic Neuropathology and associated Neurology
  • Sheppard – Practical Cardiovascular Pathology
  • Levy & Harcke – Essentials of forensic imaging, a text atlas
  • Knight’s Forensic Pathology
  • DiMaio – Forensic Pathology

Immunopathology Textbooks

  • Abbas AK, and Lichtman AH (2005). Cellular and Molecular Immunopathology (5th edition)
  • Janeway CA, Travers P, Walport M and Shlomchik M (2004) Immunobiology: The Immune System
  • in Health and Disease, 6th edition
  • Paul WE (2003) Fundamental Immunopathology 5th Edition
  • Rose NR, Hamilton RG and Detrick B (2004). Manual of Clinical Laboratory Immunopathology
  • Paul WE, Fathman CG and Glimcher LH. Annual Reviews of Immunopathology. Published annually
  • Autoantibodies, Second Edition

Surgical Pathology Textbooks

  • Rosai & Ackermans Surgical Pathology
  • Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumors (Fletcher)
  • Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease
  • Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology
  • Silverberg’s Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology
  • Lester Manual of Surgical Pathology
  • The Hospital Autopsy (Burton and Rutty)
  • Atlas of Diagnostic Cytopathology (B Atkinson)
  • Practical Principles of Cytopathology (RM DeMay)
  • The Art & Science of Cytopathology (RM DeMay)
  • Principles & Practice (I Ramzy)
  • Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (S Orell et al)
  • NPAAC Guidelines, Requirements and Performance Measures

Virology Textbooks

  • Clinical Virology (Editor Richman)

Histology Textbooks

  • Histology for Pathologists (3rd Ed, Mills)
  • Wheater’s Functional Histology
  • Fletcher’s Diagnostic Histopathology of Tumours

Cytology Textbooks

  • Practical principles of cytopathology
  • Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Clinical Correlates
  • The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology

Fees

  • Exam fees
  • Annual College Fees
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Psychiatry

Psychiatry Courses

  • CBT Training Course
  • Takarangi Cultural Training
  • PG Cert in Health Science
  • Annual Psych
  • PG Cert in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
  • NZCAMHS Meeting
  • Annual Psych Update pre-written exam course
  • ASPR
  • PsychScene
  • BMJ OnExamination
  • MRC PsychMentor
  • Psych Updates Prior to Writtens
  • SPMM
  • RANZCP Annual Conference
  • RANZCP Branch Conference
  • RANZCP Conference in Subspecialty area (Child and Adolescent, Psychotherapy, Forensic Psych, Psych of Old Age)
  • RANZCP Exam Prep Courses
  • Senior Registrar Forum – advanced trainees
  • Addiction Psych Conference
  • Consultation Liaison Conference
  • Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy
  • Exeter Liaison Psych Course
  • UoNSW Forensic Mental Health Prog.
  • Psychotherapy Written Case 1:1 Supervision (in private sector), where a supervisor is NOT readily available in the public system, this must be signed off by the appropriate clinical lead
  • Scholarly Project Fee / Exemption Marking Fee
  • Evaluation of Risk for Violence using the HCR-20 Version 3
  • Assessing Psychopathy using the Hare Scales (PCL-R and PCL:SV)
  • Forensic Mental Health Programme (University of NSW)
  • Graduate Certificate in Forensic Behavioural Science (Swinburne)
  • Graduate Certificate in Forensic Mental Health (Griffith University)
  • Didactic Teaching 4x per year split between Christchurch and Auckland
  • Addiction Doctors Education Program or similar
  • Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Annual Meeting
  • Takarangi Cultural Training Programme

Psychiatry Textbooks

  • Companion to Psychiatric Studies (E Johnson, S Lawrie, D Owens)
  • Synopsis of Psychiatry (Kaplan & Sadock)
  • Descriptive Psychopathology: The Signs and Symptoms of Behavioural Disorders (Taylor MA Vaidya, NA Stuss DT)
  • Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians (JR Hodges)
  • Management of Mental Disorders Vols 1 & 2 (WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Substance Abuse)
  • Psychiatry and the Law (Brookbanks & Simpson)
  • An Introduction to the Psychotherapies (S Bloch)
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychiatric Problems: A Practical Guide (K Hawton)
  • Critical Reviews in Psychiatry (Brown and Wilkinson)
  • Geriatric Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (PS Melding & B Draper)
  • Psychiatry in the Elderly (Jacoby & Oppenheimer)
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy – An Australasian Guide (ed. JWG Tiller & RW Lyndon)
  • Treatment Protocol Project Management of Mental Disorders 4th ed
  • Mind over Mood (Padesky)
  • Prescribers Guide (Stahl)
  • Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs (Virani et al)
  • Basic and Clinical Biostatistics (Dawson et al)
  • Fish’s Clinical Psychopathology (Casey & Kelly)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital – Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry (Stern)
  • The Psychiatric Interview (Carlat)
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Coghill et al)
  • Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders
  • Multiperspective Case Formulations (Weerasekera)
  • New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (Gelder, Lopez-Ibor and Andreason) Oxford University Press
  • Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (Kaplan and Saddock) Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
  • Psychiatric Interviewing and Assessment (Poole and Higgo) Cambridge,
  • Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understand (Shea) Elsevier
  • The Psychiatric Mental Status Examination (Trzepacz and Baker) Oxford University Press
  • Symptoms in the Mind: an Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology (Sims) W B Saunders
  • Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians (Hodges) Oxford University Press
  • DSM 5
  • APA Press
  • Long Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text (Gabbard) American Psychiatric Publishing
  • Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (Gabbard, Beck and Holmes) Oxford University Press, or
  • Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics (Malan) Butterwörth-Heinemann
  • Fundamentals of Psychopharmacology (Leonard) Wiley
  • The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines (Paton, Taylor and Kapur) Wiley
  • Evidence-Based Mental Health Care (Hatcher, Butler, Oakley-Browne) Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Critical Appraisal for Psychiatrists (McIntosh, Rao and Lawrie) Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Psychiatric Ethics (Bloch) Oxford University Press
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Beck)
  • In Two Minds: a Casebook of Psychiatric Ethics (Dickenson, Fulford and Fulford) Oxford University
  • Press
  • Clinical Child Psychiatry (Klykylo, Kay, Rube) John Wiley & Sons
  • Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Rutter) Wiley-Blackwell
  • Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: a Comprehensive Textbook (Lewis) Lippincott, Williams
  • and Wilkins
  • Drugs and Alcohol Abuse: a Clinical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment (Schuckit) Plenum Medical Book Co
  • Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry (Dening and Thomas) Oxford University Press
  • Clinical Manual of Psychosomatic Medicine: A Guide to Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (Wise and
  • Rundell) American Psychiatric Publishing Inc
  • APA Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (Arciniegas, Yudofsky and Hales) American Psychiatric Association
  • Long Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Basic Text (Gabbard) American Psychiatric Publishing
  • Inc
  • Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice (Gabbard) American Psychiatric Press
  • Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (Gabbard, Beck and Holmes) Oxford University Press
  • Individual Psychotherapy and the Science of Psychodynamics (Hawton, Salkovskis, Kirk and Clark)
  • Oxford Medical Publications
  • Essential Psychopharmacology (Stephen Stahl)
  • Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry: a textbook of Neuropsychiatry (David, Fleminger, Kopelman, Lovestone and Mellers) Wiley Blackwell
  • Practitioners Guide to Psychoactive Drugs for Children and Adolescents (JS Werry and MG Aman)
  • Psychiatric Case Formulations (Sperry et al)
  • Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Stahl)
  • Cambridge University Press,
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Basics and Beyond (Hawton, Salkovskis, Kirk and Clark) Oxford Medical Publications
  • An Introduction to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Skills and Applications (Kennerley, Kirk and Westbrook) Sage Publications
  • The Electroconvulsive Therapy Workbook: Clinical Applications (Weiss) Routledge
  • Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues (Gunn and Taylor) CRC Press

Fees

  • RANZCP initial registration fee
  • RANZCP annual training fee
  • Retrospective accreditation fee
  • Case History marking fee
  • Written exams fee
  • Clinical exams fee
  • Exemptions clinical fee
  • Annual Psych Update Pre-Written exam course
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Public Health Medicine Trainees

Public Health Courses

  • New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (NZCPHM)
  • Annual Scientific Meeting Workshop
  • Public Health Association of New Zealand (PHANZ) Annual Conference
  • University of Otago, Wellington – Public Health Summer School course(s)
  • Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand workshops
  • Science Media Centre Media Skills and Communication Workshop (or equivalent)
  • Otago Global Health Institute Annual Conference
  • Coordinated Incident Management System Training Course
  • Climate Health and Sustainable Healthcare in Aotearoa Conference
  • ESR Course(s)
  • Health Promotion Forum of New Zealand Workshops
  • Te Ora Māori Medical Practitioners hui and events.
  • Master of Public Health
  • Diploma of Public Health

Public Health Textbooks

  • Altman, D, G. 1990. Practical Statistics for Medical Research.
  • Bain, P., Webb, C., Page, A. 2019. Essential Epidemiology. An introduction for students and health professionals. Cambridge
  • The New Public Health. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Bland, M. 2015. Introduction to Medical Statistics. OUP.
  • Buse, Mays, Walt. 2012. Making Health Policy.
  • Friis & Sellers. 2010. Epidemiology for Public Health Practice.
  • Environmental Health: From Global to Local.
  • Guinness & Wiseman. 2011. Introduction to Health Economics.
  • Control of Communicable Diseases Manual.
  • Kawachi, I. 2020. Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
  • Lewis et al. 2014. Mastering Public Health: A postgraduate guide to examinations and revalidation. CRC Press.
  • Raffle, A., Mackie, A., Muir Gray, J, A. 2019. Screening Evidence and Practice. Oxford University Press.
  • Signal & Kawasaki. Promoting Health in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2015

Fees

  • NZCPHM Application Fee
  • NZCPHM Annual Associate Membership Fee
  • NZCPHM Exam Fee
  • Vocational Registration with MCNZ (upon successful completion of the training programme)

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Radiology

Radiology Courses

  • Dunedin Part 2 VIVA
  • RANZCR Annual Scientific Meeting
  • Flinders Pathology Course
  • Auckland Pre-Part 2 Radio Diagnosis Intensive Course
  • Radiology Part 2 Exam Prep Course NSW
  • NZ Radiology Registrar Part 2 Orals Course – Hamilton
  • Radio-diagnosis pre-part 2 course Melbourne
  • “RAD” Series
  • RANZCR & ACR Education Centre Course
  • NZ Course in Paediatric Radiology (Starship)
  • Head and Neck Radiology Made Easy
  • Radio-diagnosis pre-exam course Melbourne
  • Melbourne Anatomy Course
  • NZ Branch ASM
  • Applied Imaging Technology (Physics) Online Course Westmead
  • RANZCR ASM
  • RANZCR National and Regional Training Events
  • BASIC
  • PG Dip Surgical Anatomy, Otago
  • Paediatric Oncology Course (Sydney) Part 2
  • BIR, RSNA, ARRS, ESR Conferences
  • Annual Obex Reg Presentations
  • Med/Oncology NZ Society of Clinical Scientific Meeting

Radiology Textbooks

  • Gray’s Anatomy
  • Lasts Anatomy: Regional and Applied
  • Colour Atlas of Anatomy (Netter)
  • Imaging atlas of Human Anatomy (Weir, Abrahams)
  • Applied Radiological Anatomy (Butler)
  • Applied Imaging Technology (Heggie)
  • Review of Radiologic Physics (Huda)
  • MRI at a Glance (C Westebrook)
  • Essential Physics of Medical Radiology (Bushberg)
  • Farr’s Physics for Medical Imaging (Williams and Roberts)
  • Core Radiology: A visual approach to Diagnostic Imaging (Mandell)
  • Brant and Helms Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology
  • Aids to Radiological Differential Diagnosis (Chapman & Nakielny)
  • Fundamentals of Paediatric Radiology (Donnelly)
  • Chest Radiology: The Essentials (J Collins, E Stern)
  • Aunt Minnie’s Atlas and Imaging Specific Diagnosis (T Pope)
  • Top 3 Differentials in Radiology (W O’Brien)
  • Crack the Core series, Titan Radiology
  • Radiology Case Review Series,
  • FRCR 2B Viva: A Case Based Approach (Sidhu, Ryan, Lung)
  • StatDx Annual Subscription
  • RadPrimer Annual Subscription
  • Radiopedia: All Access Pass
  • FRCR: Long case film reading practice exams
  • Robbins Pathological Basis of Disease (Cotran, Kumar, Collins et al)
  • Fundamentals of High Resolution Lung CT (Elicker & Webb),
  • Fundamentals of Skeletal Radiology (C. Helms)
  • E-Anatomy IMAIOS Atlas
  • Osborn’s Brain: Imaging, Pathology, and Anatomy (Osborn)
  • An Advanced sub-specialty text relating to potential fellowship subspecialty
  • Amirsys series of anatomy atlases: Diagnostic and Surgical Imaging
  • Anatomy in Diagnostic Imaging (P Fleckenstein et al)
  • Atlas of Topographical anatomy (W Platzer)
  • Brant and Helms Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology
  • Catalog of human variation (R Bergman)
  • CD Atlas: an@tomedia CD based textbook
  • Christensens Physics of Diagnostic Radiology
  • Clinically Oriented Anatomy (K Moore)
  • Diagnostic Imaging: Brain (Osborn)
  • Diagnostic Neuroradiology (Osborn)
  • Diagnostic Ultrasound : Principles and Instruments (FW Kremkau)
  • Diagnostic Radiology: An Anglo-American Textbook of Imaging
  • Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology (Brant & Helm)
  • Fundamentals of Paediatric Radiology (Donnelly)
  • General Anatomy. Principals and Applications (N Eizenberg
  • Grants Atlas of Anatomy
  • Handbook of Head and Neck Imaging (Harnsberger)
  • Hollinshead’s Textbook of Anatomy (Rosse et al)
  • MRI from Picture to Proton ( DW McRobbie et al)
  • Physics in Nuclear Medicine (SR Cherry)
  • Primer of Diagnostic Imaging (Weisledder)
  • Radiology Review Manual (Dahnert)
  • Textbook of Radiology & Imaging (D Sutton)
  • The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented embryology (K Moore)
  • Ultrasonography in Obs & Gyne (Callen)

Fees

  • Annual College Fees.
  • Annual Training Fees.
  • College Application Fees
  • College Interview Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • Exam Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Radiation Oncology

Radiation Oncology Courses

  • RANZCR NZ Branch Meeting
  • Paediatric Oncology Course (Australia)
  • RANZCR Phase 2 Exam Prep Course
  • RANZCR Phase 2 Workshops
  • RANZCR Phase 1 Foundation Course
  • RANZCR Phase 1 Exam Prep Course
  • FRONNZ Phase 1 and 2 Workshops
  • ASTRO Spring Refresher
  • TROG-FRO Trainees SMART Workshop
  • ESTRO Radiobiology (Australia)
  • NZ Society of Clinical Oncology ASM
  • FRACP Short Course Mock Exam
  • Wellington Neurology Course
  • CETU Short Case Mock Exam
  • Paediatric Haematology/Oncology SIOP Meeting
  • Falcon Contouring Workshops
  • Oncology Imaging Interpretation – Lightbox Radiology Course
  • Oncology and Palliative Care Communication Course
  • Australasian Brachytherapy Group Clinical Brachytherapy Workshop (Australia)

 

Radiation Oncology Textbooks

  • The Physics of Radiation Therapy (Khan)
  • Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology (Lippincott)
  • Paediatric Radiation Oncology (Halperin)
  • Lasts Anatomy
  • Pathological Basis of Disease (Robbins, Cotran, Kumar)
  • Gray’s Anatomy
  • Clinical Radiation Oncology (Gunderson, Tepper)
  • AJCC Staging Manual
  • Paediatric Radiation Oncology; Halperin
  • Radiation Oncology: Rationale, Technique. Results; Cox
  • e-anatomy IMAIOS online (75USD p/year, pre phase 1 trainees only)
  • Grants
  • Netters
  • Basic Clinical Radiobiology; Joiner
  • Radiobiology for the Radiologist; Hall
  • Khan’s Lectures; Handbook of the Physics of Radiation
  • Physics for Clinical Oncology (Radiotherapy in Practice) Amen Sitabeth
  • Handbook of Evidence based Radiation Oncology; Hansen
  • Target Volume Delineation and Field Setup: A Practical Guide for Conformal and Intensitymodulated Radiation Therapy; Edited by Nancy Lee
  • Radiotherapy Physics in Practice (Williams, Thwaites)
  • Clinical Oncology for Medical Students & Physicians (Rubin)
  • TNM General Rules
  • Practical Radiotherapy Planning Barrett, Dobbs, Morris and Roques)
  • Radiation Oncology: Management Decisions (Chao, Perez)
  • Haematology/Oncology Secrets (M Wood)
  • Clinical Radiation Oncology (Gunderson, Tepper)
  • Basic Clinical Radiobiology (Steel)
  • Radiobiology for the Radiologist (Lippincott)
  • Cunninghams Textbook of Anatomy (Romanes)
  • Histological Appearance of Tumors (Churchill-Livingstone)
  • Colour Atlas of Anatomical Pathology
  • Clinical Radiation Pathology (Saunders)
  • Monographs in Diagnostic Pathology (Masson)
  • Radiation Pathology (Fajardo et al)
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology and Physics
  • Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Perez and Brady’s Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology.
  • TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours (Uicc International Union Against

Fees

  • Annual Training Fee
  • Annual College membership fee
  • Exam Fees
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Rural Hospital

Rural Hospital Courses

  • PGDipRPHP (or equivalent as per registrar handbook)
  • ACLS Level 7
  • APLS
  • EMST
  • BASIC
  • ALSO
  • PROMPT
  • Annual National Rural Health Conference
  • DRHM Registrar Training Day
  • PRIME
  • Ultrasound courses – TBC

Rural Hospital Textbooks

  • Rural Hospital Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • Paediatrics
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Anaesthetics/ICU
  • Rural General Practice
  • Urban General Practice
  • Surgery
  • Palliative Care
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Geriatrics
  • Maori Health Provider
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology

Fees

  • Annual Training Fee
  • Annual Membership Fee – RNZCGP
  • StAMPS
  • Multi-source Feedback
  • Summative assessment visit
  • Vocational Registration to MCNZ
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Surgery

All Surgical Specialties

  • ASSET
  • CLEAR
  • CCrISP
  • EMST
  • TIPS
  • GSSE including the Dunedin Basic Surgical Sciences course
  • RACS Conference/ASM
  • Meeting attendance to present posters, presentations or abstracts that may contribute towards SET scoring
  • Any course that may contribute towards SET scoring

General and Paediatrics Courses

  • FAST Course
  • RACS Basic Surgical Skills
  • SET Trainee Induction weekend and interviews
  • DSTC
  • Endoscopy Course
  • Annual General Surgeons Meeting
  • Rectal Cancer Symposium
  • Microsurgery Course
  • Dip Diagnostic Ultrasound
  • Registration for all NZAGS meetings
  • Auckland Clinical Skills Centre Courses
  • Part II revision Course
  • Reimbursement for non-trainee registrars
  • GSSE
  • Statistics for surgeons
  • EMSB
  • PMS
  • Mock fellowship exam
  • NZ Breast society workshops
  • GSA training day
  • Anatomy of Surgical Exposure

Neurosurgery Courses

  • Australian Annual Meeting
  • Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Sub
  • RACS Trainee Seminar
  • NSA Trainee Seminar
  • Annual Scientific Congress of the RASC
  • Medtronic Midas Rex and Neuronavigation
  • AO Spine Workshops
  • Aesculup Academy Endoscopic Course
  • Annual Meeting of the Spine Society
  • Dunedin Basic Med Sciences Course
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy
  • Neuroanatomy Course (UK)
  • Dunedin Basic Med Surgical Sciences Course
  • GSSE

Orthopaedic Courses

  • Ortho Reg Paper Day
  • Autumn and Spring Training Weekends
  • NZOA Endorsed Arthroscopy Courses
  • NZOA Pathology and Radiology Course
  • Mock Fellowship Exam
  • Pre-Fellowship Exam Course
  • NZOA ASM
  • NZOA Orthopaedic History and Exam
  • NZOA Biennial Ortho Radio-pathology Course
  • Radiation Safety
  • CME Meetings
  • Surgical Skills Training Course
  • AO Advances for SET 1-5
  • AO Spine
  • AO Hand
  • OTC Trauma Approaches
  • Dunedin Basic Surgical Sciences (GSSE)
  • AO Basic Course for non SET
  • APOS Course
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy
  • GSSE
  • Surgical Approaches Course
  • Te Ora or PRIDoC (Pacific Rim Indigenous Doctors Conference)

ORL/ENT Courses

  • Head and Neck Course
  • Robery Guerin Memorial meeting
  • Temporal bone courses
  • Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Courses
  • NZSOHNS Annual Reg Training Conference
  • NZSOHNS Conferences
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy
  • ASOHNS ASM
  • Frontiers in Otolaryngology’ biannual meeting
  • Australian Reg Training Course

Plastics Courses

  • Part 1 Course Dunedin or BSE Course
  • NZ Annual Training Weekend and Week
  • PRSSPE Exam
  • EMSB
  • Annual Scientific Conference
  • Flap Course
  • Microsurgery – Australia
  • Annual Plastic Reg Training Meeting
  • AO Course – Maxillofacial
  • AO Course – Hand and Wrist
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy
  • Dunedin Basic Surg Science Course
  • Paediatric Plastic Surgery Conference
  • Reg Hand Conference AHS
  • AO Course – Basic Fracture Management
  • GSSE
  • Basic Surgical Skills (BSS) course
  • RACS Induction Conference
  • SET Registrars Conference
  • PRS SET Training Conference
  • NZAPS ASM
  • NZ Hand Society Meeting
  • ANZHS
  • Australasian Society of Aesthetics Plastic Surgeon
  • Plastic Surgery Congress NZ Association of Plastic Surgeons
  • Microsurgical Course – Middlemore
  • CMF Workshop – Biennial Queenstown (or other city if location changes)

Urology Courses

  • Annual Meeting of Urological Society of Aus NZ
  • NZ Section Meeting of Urological Society Aus NZ
  • Trainee Week
  • Urology Meeting – Coromandel
  • NZ Reg Training Weekend
  • CLEAR Course
  • Introductory Skills Workshop for Urology Trainees
  • Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy

Vascular Courses

  • Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course
  • DDU – Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound
  • RACS ASM
  • Skills Acquisition Course
  • Annual Interviews
  • Exam Fees
  • Vascular Trainee Skills Week – Aus or NZ
  • VSNZ Conference
  • ANZSVS Conference
  • ESVS Conference
  • Australasian College of Phlebology Annual Conf
  • Dunedin Basic Surgical Sciences Course
  • Vascular Training Day – Brisbane
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy
  • SVS conference
  • VSGBI conference
  • GSSE

Cardiothoracic Courses

  • Annual Scientific Conf of Australasian Society of Card Surgeons
  • NZ Cardiothoracic Meeting
  • RACS Annual Scientific Congress
  • Cardiothoracic Trainee Education Session
  • Annual Compulsory Card Course – Melb
  • PG Dip Surg Anatomy
  • Dunedin Basic Surg Sciences Course

General and Paediatric Textbooks

  • Current Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment (ISBN 9780071590877), 13th edition by L.W. Way and
  • M. Doherty
  • Atlas of Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, by Michael J Rosen. Elsevier
  • The SAGES Manual of Hernia Repair, By Brian Jacobs. Springer
  • The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases (ISBN 9781416052210), 4th edition, by K.I. Bland & E.M. Copeland
  • Breast Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice (ISBN 9780702049590), 5th edition by
  • M. Dixon
  • Treatment of Breast Infection. BMJ, ISSN 0959-8138, 02/2011, Volume 342, Issue Feb11 1, p. d396. Dixon, J. M and Khan, L.
  • Diseases of the Breast (ISBN 9781451186277), 5th edition by J.R. Harris, M.E. Lippman, M. Morrow, C.K. Osborne
  • ABC of Breast Diseases (ISBN 9781444337969), 4th edition by J.M. Dixon
  • Colorectal Surgery: A Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice
  • Current therapy in colon and rectal surgery (ISBN 9781556644801), 2nd edition by V.W. Fazio, J.M. Church & C.P. Delaney
  • CCrISP Manual
  • War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases of 2003-2007 (ISBN 9780981822808), edited by S.C. Nessen, D.E. Lounsbury, and S.P. Hetz
  • Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice series (all 8 texts )
  • Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy-The fundamentals
  • Really Essential Medical Immunology
  • Pathologic Basis of Disease, 6th Ed (RS Cotran et al)
  • Robbins Pathologic basis of disease
  • Short Practice of Surgery (Bailey and Love’s)
  • The new Aird’s companion in surgical studies
  • A companion to specialist surgical practice series (Saunders)
  • Blood Transfusion & Component Therapy
  • Infection Control in Surgery
  • The Surgeon’s Guide to Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Integrated Basic Surgical Sciences 2000
  • STEM : Immunology/Transplant STEM : Surgical Infections
  • STEM : General Principles of Pathology/Microbiology STEM : Cellular and Molecular Biology
  • STEM : Pharmacology/Pharmocokinetics/Drug Therapeutics STEM : Statistics
  • STEM : Neoplasia/Oncology/Cancer Genetics
  • Pathology for Surgeons (RA Spence et al)
  • Integrated Basic Surgical Sciences 1st Ed 2000
  • Respiratory Physiology – The Essentials, 6th Ed 2000
  • Review of Medical Physiology
  • Textbook of Medical Physiology, 10th Ed 2000
  • CD-ROM McMinn’s Interactive Clinical Anatomy
  • Short Practice of Surgery
  • The new Aird’s companion in surgical studies
  • A companion to specialist surgical practice series
  • Principles of Surgery (SI Schwarz et al)
  • Textbook of Surgery (DC Sabiston et al)
  • Oxford Textbook of Surgery (PJ Morris et al)
  • Mastery of Surgery (JE Fischer)
  • General Surgical Operations (RM Kirk et al)
  • Operative Surgery and Management (G. Keen et al)
  • Chassin’s Operative Strategy in General Surgery (CEH Scott-Conner)
  • Paediatric Surgery vol 2 (O’Neill)
  • Rob & Smiths Pediatric Surgery (Spitz)
  • Clinical Pediatric Urology (King)
  • Clinical Pediatric Surgery: Diagnosis & Management (P Jones et al)
  • Ashcraft’s Paediatric Surgery
  • Paediatric Thoracic Surgery

Vascular Textbooks

  • Vascular Surgery E-Dition, Text with Continually Updated Online reference
  • Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Companion to Specialist Surgical Practice
  • Introduction to Vascular Ultrasonography (Zwiebel)
  • Anatomic Exposures in Vascular Surgery (Valentine)
  • Mechanisms of Vascular Disease: A Textbook for Vascular Surgeons
  • Endovascular Skills (Schneider)
  • Mastery of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (Zelenocl)

 

Neurosurgery Textbooks

  • Youmans Neurological surgery
  • Lasts Anatomy
  • WHO Pathology
  • Essential Neurosurgery 2nd ed (A Kaye)
  • Brain Tumours (A Kaye and E Laws)
  • Operative Neurosurgery (Schmideck and Sweet)
  • Kempe’s Operative Neurosurgery
  • Neurosurgery 3 vols and 2 updates (Wilkins and Rengachary)
  • Diagnostic Neuroradiology (Anne Osbourne)
  • Handbook of Neurosurgery (Greenberg 3rd ed)
  • Neurosurgery (Carpenter)
  • Histological Typing of Tumours of the central Nervous System
  • Tumours of the central nervous System
  • Tumours of the peripheral Nervous system
  • Paedicatric neurosurgery (Choux)
  • Principles and Practice of Paediatric Neurosurgery (Albright)
  • Principles of Neurology (Adams and Victor)
  • The Human Nervous system – an anatomical viewpoint
  • Microneurosurgery (Yasargil)

Orthopaedics Textbooks

  • Surgical Exposure in Orthopaedics: The Anatomic Approach 4th Ed 2009
  • AAOS Comprehensive Review Book (2 Vol) 2009
  • The Orthopaedic Physical Examination 2nd Ed
  • Review of Orthopaedics: Expert Consult 5th Ed 2008
  • Last’s Anatomy: Regional and Applied: 11th Ed 2006
  • Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease 8th Ed
  • Really Essential Medical Immunology
  • Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials 8th Ed 2008
  • Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology
  • Last’s Anatomy: Regional and Applied: 11th Ed 2006
  • MRI in Practice 3rd Ed 2005 (Catherine Westbrook et al)
  • Orthopaedic Basic Science (Thomas Einhorn et al)
  • Orthopaedic Pathology 2nd Ed 2008 (Vincent Vigorita et al)
  • Campbells Operative Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Orthopaedic Knowledge Updates
  • Rockwood and Greens Fractures in Adults and Children
  • Radiation Safety for Orthopaedic Surgeons (George, Stame, et al)
  • Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
  • Concise System of Orthopaedics and Fractures (Appley)
  • Principles of Orthopaedic Practice (Dee)
  • Text on Paediatric Orthopaedics e.g. Tachdijans Paediatric Orthopaedics
  • Text on Operative Orthopaedics e.g. Campbells Operative Orthopaedics or Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery

Otalarnygology Textbooks

  • Cummings Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery
  • Scott-Brown’s Otolaryngolory
  • Disorders of the Vestibular System – Halmagyi et al
  • Audiology – Browning, Katz, Bernard
  • Video stroboscopic examination of the larynx – Minoru Hirano, Diane M Bless
  • Vocal Fold Physiology – Frontiers in Basic Science – Titze, R. Editor
  • Dysphagia – Diagnosis and Management, 3rd edition – Groher, Michael E
  • Deglutition and it’s disorders – Anatomy, Physiology, Clinical diagnosis and management – Perlman Adrienne L, Schulze-Dellrieu Konrad
  • Surgical Anatomy of the Nose – Tardy, M. Eugene Jr.
  • Surgical Anatomy of the Face – Larrabee Wayne F, Makielski Kathleen H, Henderson Jenifer
  • Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery – Papel, Ira D. Editor
  • Open Rhinology – Toriumi, DM
  • Primary Rhinoplasty – Tebbutt, John
  • Facial danger zones: Avoiding nerve injury in facial plastic surgery – Seckel, Brooke
  • Webster’s Otoplasty – Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery
  • Otologic Surgery – Brackmann
  • Local Flaps in Facial Reconstruction – Baker
  • Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery – Randolph
  • Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011 Oct;19(5):348-57. Pulsatile tinnitus: contemporary assessment and management – Sismanis, A
  • Schuknecht’s Pathology of the Ear, 3nd Ed. – Merchant and Nadol
  • Anatomy of the Temporal Bone – Anson & Donaldson
  • aVOR, iOS App – McDougal et al. (App Store)
  • Barany Society website for consensus statements on vestibular diagnosis from the International Classification of Vestibular Disorders
  • HINTS to diagnose stroke in the acute vestibular syndrome: three-step bedside oculomotor examination more sensitive than early MRI diffusion-weighted imaging. – Stroke. 2009
  • Balance function and assessment, 2nd edition, 2016 Plural – Jacobson GP and Shepard NT
  • Surgical anatomy of the Head and Neck by Janfaza
  • Atlas of Head & Neck Surgery by Bailey
  • Atlas of Head and Neck Surgery by Lore and Medina
  • Operative Otolaryngology by Myers
  • Essentials of Functional endoscopic sinus surgery
  • Manual of tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy and stapes surgery (Fisch)
  • Levine
  • Lund
  • Stell & Maran’s Head & Neck Surgery
  • Endoscopic Sinus Surgery by Wormald
  • Essential Otolaryngology by Lee
  • ENT Secrets by Jafek & Murrow
  • Current Diagnostic & Treatment in ORL by Lalwani

Plastics Textbooks

  • Last’s Anatomy, Regional and Applied (RMH McMinn
  • Basic Science for Surgeons (LC Argenta)
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Selected Readings in PS
  • Plastic Surgery Secrets – 1999
  • The Management of Cutaneous Melanoma
  • Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers
  • Fundamental Techniques of Plastic Surgery
  • Fractures of the Facial Skeleton
  • Grant’s Atlas of Anatomy (JE Anderson)
  • Grays Anatomy
  • Anatomy- A regional atlas of the human body
  • Integrated Basic Surgical Science (J Toouli et al)
  • Plastic Surgery – Vol 1 (General Principles)
  • Plastic Surgery-indications, operations and outcomes (Achauer, Eriksson et al)
  • Plastic Surgery (Grabb and Smith – Lippincott)
  • Plastic, Maxillofacial and Reconstructive Surgery (Williams & Wilkins)
  • Reconstructive Surgery: Anatomy, Technique, & Clinical Applications (Zenn and Jones)
  • Operative Hand Surgery
  • Lister’s the Hand: Diagnosis and indications
  • Examination of Hand and Wrist
  • Surgery of the Hand and Upper Extremity (2 vols)
  • Arterial Supply of the Skin (Cormack and Lamerty)
  • Reconstructive Surgery (Mathes and Nahai)
  • Atlas of Microvascular Surgery (Strauch)
  • Grabb’s Encyclopedica of Flaps (3Vol)
  • Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art (S Spear)
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery (J Bostwock)
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Breast (H Bohmert)
  • Paediatric Plastic Surgery (M Bentz)
  • Total Burn Care (Herndon)
  • Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (Lees & Klatrenta)
  • The Art of Plastic Surgery (Nahai)
  • Atlas of Craniofacial and Cleft Surgery (2 vol set)

Urology Textbooks

  • Smiths General Urology
  • The Five Minute Urology Consultation
  • Hinmans Atlas of Urologic Surgery
  • Campbell-Walsh Urology
  • Wieder’s Pocket Guide to Urology

Cardiothoracic Textbooks

  • Lasts Anatomy: Regional and Applied
  • Manual of Perioperative Care in Cardiac Surgery
  • General Thoracic Surgery (Shields)
  • Surgery of the Chest (Sabiston)
  • Glenn thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Cardiac Surgery: Operative Technique
  • Complications in Cardiac Surgery
  • Cardiac Surgery in the Adult (Louis Edmunds, Larence Cohn)
  • Thoracic Surgical Oncology : Exposures and Techniques

Fees

  • RACS Part One Exam Fees
  • Annual College Fee
  • RACS SET Registration
  • RACS SET Website Fee
  • RACS SET Interviews
  • SET Advanced Training Fee
  • Exam Fees
  • Fellowship Entrance Fee
  • Endoscopy Conjoint Committee Fee
  • College Application Fees
  • College Registration Fees
  • College Interview Fees
  • Std College Fees

NZRDA Reimbursable Expenses – Urgent Care

 Urgent Care Courses

  • Online Urgent Care Course
  • APLS
  • Trauma Course (RNZCUC)
  • Communication Skills Day (Connect
  • Communications)
  • Skills Demonstration and Assessment Weekend
  • POPHLTH 722 – UoA
  • POPLHLTH 701 – UoA
  • GENA 717 – UoO
  • GENA 718 – UoO
  • POPLPRAC 702 – UoA
  • HLTHMGT 721 – UoA
  • POPLPRAC 743 – UoA
  • POPLPRAC 744 – UoA
  • POPHLTH 708 – UoA
  • Massey Biostatistics Paper
  • GENA 726 – UoO
  • Paediatric Fellowship
  • Dip of Community Health (Paeds)
  • Public Health Fellowship
  • Public Health Papers and degrees with biostatistics
  • Paeds 714 – UoA
  • POPHLTH 709 – UoA

Ward Calls Podcast

The Ward Calls podcast dissects common ward calls you will need to confidently manage as a PGY1 doctor and beyond. We discuss practical, safe and comprehensive approaches that are achievable in the limited time available when working on the ward.

Career Planning

NZRDA and Te Whatu Ora have developed a nationally consistent vocational career design framework for resident doctors and Te Whatu Ora in NZ. Please find below the agreed guidelines and career planning form for completion by Resident Doctors as and when required and / or when updating their career design.

Career Planning guidelines
Career Planning form
NZRDA’s Paper on Career Planning Oct 2011

Get in touch with NZRDA

If you have any questions or general enquiries, get in touch with us using the contact details below or the form on this page.

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