Doctors-in-Training Council (DITC)
The NZMA's Doctors-in-Training Council represents the interests of NZMA trainee intern, RMO and medical student members.
DITC members are (from left):
Derek Buchanan (senior house surgeon, Auckland); Dylan Mordaunt (first year
house surgeon, Auckland); Nick Fancourt (President, NZMSA); Cindy Towns (house
surgeon, Dunedin); Chair, Andrew Old (public health registrar, Auckland); Pete
Foley (Chair, NZMA, ex officio), Brandon Adams (orthopaedic registrar, Auckland).
NZMA CEO Cameron McIver is also an ex
officio member of the DITC.
The DITC was established in 2002 to provide support and representation to NZMA members who are the future of the medical profession. The DITC advises the NZMA Board of issues of relevance to doctors-in-training (DIT), contributes to NZMA responses to government policy proposals, and develops its own policy proposals. It participates in advocacy and representation on DIT issues. The DITC also provides a forum for constructive collaboration with non-RMO doctor groups.
The DITC meets four times a year, plus is represented at the twice yearly NZMA Council. The Chair sits on the NZMA Board. The DITC chair is ex officio on the NZMSA executive. The DITC is also an invited observer to the Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors-in-Training.
A newsletter, Tinnitus, is emailed to members six times a year.
Tinnitus - June 07
Tinnitus - April 07
Tinnitus - October 06
Tinnitus - May 06
Tinnitus - March 06
Articles from Medspeak:
Chocolates Anyone? (Medical workforce article, by DITC
Chair Andrew Old, April 2007)
Finding the BEAST within -- A look into NZ BSTs'
Expectations and Attitudes to Surgical Training (By Yezdi Mistry, October 2006)
Find out more about the NZMA Leadership Fund
Beyond the Med School Gates - Life in the Real World: Presentations
If you have any comments or feedback, please email us at: ditc@nzma.org.nz
Useful links:
Medical Schools Admission Policy (Adopted by the NZMA Board, 13 June 2006, on advice of the DITC)
Scrubs website for RMOs -- www.scrubs.co.nz
New Zealand Medical Journal articles of interest to doctors-in-training, include:
(Note: login and password required for accessing NZMJ articles less than six months old)
Update on a pandemic:
junior doctor debt in New Zealand
Richard Pole
17-Feb-2006 - Vol 119 No 1229
[full text] [PDF]
The skills of our New Zealand junior doctors - what are these skills and how do
they get them?
Mike Ardagh
17-Feb-2006 - Vol 119 No 1229
[full text] [PDF]
Appropriate use of pagers in a New Zealand tertiary hospital
Rajesh Patel, Keryn Reilly, Andrew Old, Gill Naden, Stephen Child
31-Mar-2006 - Vol 119 No 1231
[full text] [abstract]
[PDF]
Frequency of calls to "on-call" house officer pagers at Auckland City
Hospital, New Zealand
Tin Chiu, Andrew Old, Gill Naden, Stephen Child
31-Mar-2006 - Vol 119 No 1231
[full text] [abstract]
[PDF]
Procedural skills of first-year postgraduate doctors at Auckland District
Health Board, New Zealand
Andrew Old, Gill Naden, Stephen Child
17-Feb-2006 - Vol 119 No 1229
[full text] [abstract]
[PDF]
Resident Medical Officer working conditions in New Zealand: results of a
recent survey
Stephen Child, Andrew Old
22-Oct-2004 - Vol 117 No 1204
[full text] [abstract]
[PDF]
Key issues facing Resident Medical Officers (RMOs)
Deborah Powell
22-Oct-2004 - Vol 117 No 1204
[full text] [PDF]
New Zealand's Christchurch Hospital at night:
an audit of medical activity from 2230 to 0800 hours
John Morton, Yvonne Williams, Mike Philpott
31-Mar-2006 - Vol 119 No 1231
[full text] [abstract] [PDF]
Is it ethical for doctors to strike?
Frank Frizelle
23-Jun-2006 - Vol 119 No 1236
[full text] [PDF]