Applications for Training

Any medical practitioner wishing to be considered for selection into the New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine Training Programme must formally submit an application form and other required information.

Applications to the Training Programme will open on 1 June 2012.  The application form and required information must be submitted electronically to the College office by Friday 29 June 2012 via email to sarah.targett@populationhealth.org.nz.  An application fee of $365 including GST will apply to all applications to the Training Programme in 2012.

Please note that applicants to the Training Programme must hold general registration with the Medical Council of New Zealand and have a current Annual Practising Certificate.  Applicants must have two years of post graduate experience and hold New Zealand permanent residency. 

Further information for potential PHM Registrars is available here.

Selection

The selection process is usually undertaken only once per year, for positions commencing on 1 March the following year.  This is subject to the continued availability of funding for Registrars.

The selection process consists of:

  • assessment of information submitted with the application form, to determine applicants for short-listing; and
  • personal interview of short-listed applicants.

Application Instructions

Each applicant must supply ALL of the following information electronically, to the following specification:

  1. Application Form:  this must be completed and signed.  Please provide full details, marked 'confidential', if you have ever been the subject of any disciplinary action in the past, or any disciplinary investigation is currently underway or pending.
  2. Personal introduction essay: a 300 to 500 word essay, which identifies why you wish to undertake training in Public Health Medicine. This essay should refer to particular experiences, skills and attitudes that you would bring to this scope of medicine. This document must be produced on a word processor.
  3. Curriculum vitae: a recently updated curriculum vitae including the names of two referees.  Referees should be doctors with whom you have worked and who are agreeable to acting as your referee and being approached by the College for a reference.  You will be sent a referee report form to send to your referees on receipt of your application.  It will be your responsibility to send these forms to you referees for return to the College within the timeframe required.   Your CV should draw attention to particular skills and experiences of potential relevance to public health medicine.
  4. Recent Photograph:  please submit a recent photograph of yourself with your application.

  5. Certificates and Transcripts: scanned certified copies of relevant certificates and transcripts (including medical school qualification, current annual practising certificate, any previous public health qualifications claimed and academic transcripts).

  6. Identification:  please include a certified copy of the pages from your passport recording your personal details, your birth certificate or other proof that you are a permanent resident of NZ.

  7. Career Plan:  a Career Plan is a requirement of Health Workforce New Zealand.  To support your application please provide a copy of your current plan for your future in medicine.

It is important that ALL of this information is submitted electronically to the College office by the due date or the application will not be considered further.  The information requested above is to submitted via email to sarah.targett@populationhealth.org.nz

If you do not already have a Career Plan you can access the College Career Plan template here.

Privacy Statements

Information provided with applications is only used by the Training Programme for the purposes of selecting Registrars.

For applicants accepted into the Training Programme, application information is retained until the Registrar is granted Fellowship of the College. Information relating to Registrars is accessed by the Training Programme Director and Training Programme Supervisors, the auditor, Officers of the College and Training Programme and, if the need arises, a legal advisor. Once training commences, the name of each Registrar is also supplied to Health Workforce NZ for funding purposes.

For applicants not accepted into the Training Programme, some information may be retained by the College for a period of time.

No information submitted will be disclosed to parties other than those identified above. Applicants may request access to their information held by the Training Programme, and may identify corrections where that information is incorrect.