The NZMA aims to provide leadership of the medical profession, and promote:
Professional ethics, unity and values, and the health of all New Zealanders.
New member joining offer!
If you sign up today by direct debit, you pay only $20 per month (or $10 per month for RMOs and GP Trainees) until September 2023.*
Why I joined the NZMA - Dr Rachel Robertson
“I see advocacy and striving for equity for our patients as an essential part of our job. The NZMA is awesome at this.”
Why Join the NZMA?
A Voice For All
You are vital and so is our medical profession. NZMA provides leadership and promotes professional ethics, unity and values as well as the health of all New Zealanders.
The NZMA is the country's only pan-professional medical organisation representing the collective interests of all doctors.
Help make our voice heard across the nation and join us now.
Membership is available to all New Zealand medical practitioners and medical students.
Benefits
- Member advisory service, including advice on the interpretation and application of legislation
- Complete access to New Zealand Medical Journal
- NZMA member only section of the website
- Access to our publications NZMJDigest and Vital Signs
- Chance to advocate and advise
- Members-only Financial Benefits
Affordable Rates
New member joining offer:
If you sign up today by direct debit, you pay only $20 per month (or $10 per month for RMOs and GP Trainees) until September 2022.*
We have different membership rates based on where you are in your career—whether you’re a trainee, an RMO, a full-time doctor, are low-income or work part time. We also have a discounted rate for doctors who join in groups.
Contact Robyn Fell for more information.
* Doctors joining under this offer cannot have been an NZMA member in the previous two years.
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