Training

Your Training

NZRDA has an active voice where your training is concerned, and if you have any comments or feedback regarding current reviews, papers, or reports, please contact us as we welcome your feedback.

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.
Download the cost of training lists below:

• Anaesthetics
• ATR
• Cardiothoracic
• Dental
• ED
• General Medicine
• GP
• ICU
• Medical Oncology
• Medical Subspecialities
• Neurosurgery
• Non Specialty
• O&G
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopaedics
• Otolaryngology
• Paediatrics 
• Palliative Care
• Pathology
• Plastics
• Radiation Oncology
• Radiology
• Rural Hospital Medicine
• Surgical 
• Urgent Care
• Urology
• Vascular

NZRDA Education Trust

Financial support for RMO training and education
The NZRDA Education Trust provides financial support for the furtherance and protection of the education or training of RMOs in all aspects of medical practice in NZ.

The objectives of the Trust are:

• The grants must be beneficial to all RMOs in NZ and not to further a personal career.
• The grants need to be training/education that falls outside the provisions of the MECA i.e. costs of training.

Read the terms and conditions.

Career Planning

NZRDA and the DHBs have developed a nationally consistent vocational career design framework for resident doctors and DHBs 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.