The Consultant Physician Role:
Navigating the Unknown of Fellowship

A practical grounding in the step up to consultant: the parts of the job no one sits you down to explain, so you start the role prepared rather than working it out alone.

Becoming a consultant is a bigger shift than anyone really prepares you for. 

One day you're the registrar with a senior nearby to check your call, and the next, you're the one everyone is coming to. You're suddenly making the decisions and carrying the responsibility, with the supervision of training gone. The medicine, you know. But it's everything around it that catches people out: the accountability, the rostering and contracts, the meetings, the service that now partly runs on you. If you've felt clinically ready and quietly unready for the rest of it, you're in good company. In the RACP New Fellow Survey, around a third of new fellows said the move from trainee to consultant was difficult or very difficult.

The Consultant Physician Role is built for that transition. Across three modules it works through what actually changes when you step up, the shape of the role beyond the clinical work, and how the New Zealand system really runs, from your lines of accountability and the business side of the job through to making decisions under full responsibility and handling things when they go wrong. It's grounded in the frameworks you actually practise within here, including your obligations under Te Tiriti and cultural safety, ACC's no-fault treatment-injury system, and the Code of Rights.

The course is also honest about the hard parts, impostor syndrome included, and built around the idea that you're not meant to work this out on your own. It's shaped with consultants who've made the same move, and built to be the course they wish they'd had.

You'll come away more confident in the role, clearer on where you fit, and with less of it left to learn the hard way.
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Quick Facts

  • Price: $400 + GST (course only), or $700 + GST (course + live sessions)
  • Time: around 6 to 7 hours of course material, self-paced
  • Live sessions: 4 sessions, 60 to 90 minutes each (optional add-on)
  • Format: online and self-paced, on any device
  • Built for: new consultants, senior registrars approaching Fellowship, and IMGs stepping into consultant roles in New Zealand

Course contents

Online Course
Only

$400 + GST
$460 incl. GST
Includes basic features plus:
  • Instant course access
  • Live sessions available separately*

Online Course
+ Live Sessions

$700 + GST
$805 incl. GST
Includes basic features plus:
  • Four online, live, case review sessions**
  • Maximum of four people per session
  • 60 to 90 minutes long
  • Instant course access

Team
Purchase

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For organisations purchasing 5+ courses
Includes basic features plus:
  • Four online, live, case review sessions**
  • Maximum of four people per session
  • 60 to 90 minutes long
  • Instant course access
*Live sessions are available at $400 + GST if booked separately and **must be booked and attended within three months of purchase either when purchasing the sessions or the course and session bundle. Live case review sessions are not available without a course purchase made in the last 12 months.

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Our Mission

To prepare doctors for the whole role their clinical expertise has to operate within: the responsibilities, systems, judgement and relationships that shape day-to-day practice, so they step into what's next prepared and confident, and no one has to find their feet alone.

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