About Te Whanake, your CPD programme 


The College’s Te Whanake CPD programme, is for vocationally registered general practitioners in New Zealand.

Participating in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) ensures that College members can maintain their Annual Practicing Certificate and comply with the Medical Council of New Zealand’s recertification requirements for medical practitioners.

Members can find endorsed seminars, workshops, and courses in our events section.

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Resuscitation requirements

Fellows and registrars of the College must hold an advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certificate that is less than three years old. Dual Fellows and Fellows of the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine must also hold current certificate(s) (not older than five years) in emergency medicine skills (EMS).

Minimum requirements for ACLS certificates for doctors

Registrars 
At the time of being awarded Fellowship, registrars must hold:
General practice training pathway   Dual and rural hospital medicine pathways  
  •  A current ACLS certificate (not older than three years).
  • This course must have been an assessed course with a minimum contact time of six hours, with expected reading preparation of
    four hours.
  • A current ACLS certificate.
  • This needs to be a New Zealand Resuscitation Council, (NZRC) CORE Advanced course, and taken through an RNZCGP-endorsed provider
And 

  • Emergency Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) or Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS).

And 

  • Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) or Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).

Fellows
College, Division and Dual Fellows are required to hold:
General practice training pathway  Rural Hospital Medicine  
  •  A current ACLS certificate (not older than three years).
  • This course must have been an assessed course with a minimum contact time of six hours, with expected reading preparation of
    four hours.
  • A current NZRC CORE Advanced certificate (not older than three years).
And 

  • A current certificate (not older than five years) in emergency management skills. You can choose to either complete one Tier 1 course OR two Tier 2 courses to meet this requirement