First year house officers or NZREX

Kia ora. You’re welcome at our house. We’d like it to become your home.

Why make Waikato DHB your preferred choice?

We offer

A tertiary and teaching hospital with an excellent reputation.
Extensive range of services – so you are exposed to a wide variety of learning experiences.
Good orientation.
Leading edge clinical skills centre on the campus.
Support and guidance from our helpful RMO Unit.
The opportunity to grow into a career of your choice – as generalist or specialised as you want.

Add to this

a vibrant campus – a place to meet new friends as well as learn new skills
a city that has everything except traffic gridlock, high rents and parking hassles
outdoor adventures waiting for you to jump in and play
all within easy reach of Auckland to the north and the ski-fields of Mt Ruapehu to the south, and beaches to the east and west.

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Teaching programme

All first year house officers have two hours of ‘protected time’ each week to attend teaching sessions.

Every Tuesday afternoon, there is a variety of clinical topics presented by senior doctors who are all experts in their fields. These sessions are informal and are usually case-based.

Topics are wide-ranging with an emphasis on a practical approach to caring for patients.

Orientation

To ensure all first year house officers are well prepared to carry out a variety of procedures at Waikato Hospital, they must attend a three-day orientation course before starting work at the hospital.

The course is organised by the RMO Unit with facilitators coming from a variety of speciality areas.

The Clinical Learning Stations include:

Pain Management/Radiology
Infection Control/Laboratory and Blood Bank
Medication Prescription Issues
Emergency Department
Discharge summaries
HDU and Anaesthetics
Maori and Pacifica Health

Postgraduate Year 1 Training Schedule - 2012

Tuedays 1.30 – 2.30pm (Bring your lunch)

Venue: The Bryant Education Centre (BEC)

2012 Programme

Run choices and run categories

First year allocations are designed to give PGY1s and NZREX doctors registration within one year after satisfactory completion of all four runs.

Each run allocation block has the required ‘A’ medical and ‘A’ surgical run included; at Waikato DHB, the MCNZ accredited ‘A’ runs are:

'A' Surgery runs	'A' Medicine runs
Paediatric surgery	General medicine
General surgery	Cardiology
	Respiratory

During the first six months of employment, year one house officers are not rostered to work nights (in accordance with clause 6.5 of the RDA MECA).

Each run allocation block comprises of four 13-week runs. All these runs are based at Waikato Hospital.

Year one house surgeon run allocations - Waikato Hospital

Doctor's name	Year one house surgeons
	General Surgery	Cardiology	Orthopaedics	Rehabilitation
	Cardiology	Orthopaedics	Psychiatry	General Surgery
	Cardiology	General Surgery	Plastics	Haematology
	General Medicine	General Surgery	Rehabilitation	Orthopaedics
	General Surgery	Psychiatry	Cardiology	Plastics
	Plastics	General Surgery	Haematology	Respiratory
	Paediatric Surgery	General Surgery	Rehabilitation	General Medicine
	Respiratory	Plastics	General Medicine	General Surgery
	Psychiatry	General Medicine	General Surgery	Urology
	Urology	General Medicine	General Surgery	Respiratory
	Orthopaedics	Paediatric Surgery	Cardiology	Plastics
	Orthopaedics	Rehabilitation	General Surgery	Cardiology
	General Medicine	Urology	Respiratory	General Surgery
	General Surgery	Orthopaedics	Plastics	General Medicine
	Haematology	Cardiology	Paediatric Surgery	General Surgery
	General Surgery	General Medicine	Urology	Cardiology
	Respiratory	Rehabilitation	General Medicine	General Surgery
	General Surgery	Haematology	Respiratory	Orthopaedics
	Plastics	Respiratory	General Surgery	General Medicine
	Rehabilitation	Plastics	General Medicine	Paediatric Surgery
	Rehabilitation	Respiratory	General Surgery	Psychiatry
	General Medicine	General Surgery	Orthopaedics	Rehabilitation

Allocation of first year runs

There are currently 23 x 4 13 week runs accredited by the Medical Council for the use for first year training. Some of these are 'A' runs that have to be shared equally amongst the candidates. This leaves about 50% available for "allocation". We are open to suggestion as to how to do this in the interest of the whole group but cannot be pressured by individuals if this is detrimental to opportunities of others.

The following are the "priority ratings" for allocation:

All runs are allocated randomly if applicants make no specific requests

PRIORITY 1: Medical Council requirements have to be fulfilled
PRIORITY 2: Matching the spread of very popular and less popular runs
PRIORITY 3: Fulfilment of requests
PRIORITY 4: Swapping of runs between individuals with mutual consent
PRIORITY 5: Matching the spread between 'high' and 'low' workload runs

This process we feel is fair to all and accept that some individuals may get some runs they do not like. We hope, at worst, to limit your exposure to 'unfavourable' runs to one run only.

Run	1ST Six Months (Not working nights) (Current salary scale)	2ND Six Months (Working nights) (Current salary scale)
Cardiology	D	C
General Medicine	D	C
General Surgery	C	B
Haematology	D	C
Mental Health	D	D
Orthopaedics	C	B
Paediatric Surgery	E	E
Plastics	D	B
Rehabilitation (OP&R)	D	D
Respiratory	D	C
Urology	D	B

Pay scales

House officers and senior house officers effective 1 October 2010

		House Officer		Senior House Officer
Cat	Hours	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4
F	40 - 44.9	53,900	58,348	61,652	64,953
E	45 - 49.9	59,887	64,831	68,499	72,173
D	50 - 54.9	68,870	74,557	78,777	82,995
C	55 - 59.9	77,855	84,283	89,052	93,824
B	60 - 64.9	86,839	94,007	99,327	104,650
A	65+	98,817	106,971	113,027	119,086

The ACE process: things to know, places to go

While the ACE system has been designed to be efficient and as relatively ‘stress free’ as possible, please ensure that:

a) Your application is complete. Include a completed:

‘ACE Application for Employment’ form
at least three ‘Referee Report’ forms
a covering letter (optional)
a transcript of your ‘Medical School’ results.

b) All documentation has been received (especially your ‘Referee Report’ forms) - check with the ACE Centre until such time as they can confirm the receipt of all your documentation.

c) You fill out all sections on the ‘Application Form’ and that all details are correct.

The inclusion of incorrect information may render your application invalid.

Timelines for 2012

1.	All year one house officer application material sent directly to the ACE Centre by the applicants	by 25 June
2.	Applications received by Waikato DHB from the ACE Centre - electronically	by 2 July
3.	Waikato DHB’s year one house officer ranking committee meets to rank all applicants	either on 10 July or 17 July
4.	Waikato DHB’s ranking list is sent to the ACE Centre electronically	by 25 July
5.	First matching	by 31 July
6.	ACE Centre notifies DHBs and applicants of successful matchings	by 31 July
7.	DHBs contact successful applicants directly to finalise appointment arrangements	from 31 July to 6 August
8.	Waikato DHB notifies ACE Centre of acceptances	13 August
9.	ACE Centre discusses with Waikato DHB their preferences related to re-advertising any declined positions	14 August to 24 September
10.	A second match process	It has yet to be determined whether or not a second 'match' will be held.

Note:
a) Trainee interns should not apply to any DHB they do not wish to work at.
b) DHBs have the right to not rank any trainee intern who does not meet their criteria for employment.
c) The DHBs select and rank trainee interns based on whatever criteria they have determined.
d) The submission of lists must be done electronically.
e) The job offer and acceptance is completed within minutes rather than months.

The ACE Recruitment Process