New Zealand registrars lost to overseas employers
A report on an ASMS Questionnaire - Lyndon Keene
This paper presents the results of a survey to attempt to measure the loss of New Zealand's registrars to overseas employers in selected specialties in order to better prepare the ASMS in its understanding of the medical workforce
situation in DHBs before it goes into national DHB MECA negotiations in 2010.
Lists of training directors/supervisors were obtained from college websites for four specialties
(psychiatry, anaesthesia, general medicine, and intensive care) and from the Melbourne office of
RACS for the trainer list in surgery. Emails and telephone numbers were obtained either from the
college websites or by cross-referencing names with the ASMS database.
Questionnaires were emailed to training directors (and where email addresses were not available, survey letters were posted with a stamped addressed envelope). Two reminder emails were sent to non-respondents during December and follow-up phone calls were made from 17 December. Five questions were asked, along with a request for comment. READ MORE
