Registration

If you are a medical practitioner wanting to practise anaesthesia in Australia or New Zealand, you must register with the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. The College provides a 260-week (five years) anaesthesia training program leading to the Diploma of Fellowship.

You should be familiar with the requirements of this program prior to completing your registration application. Details of the program can be found in the following links and documents:

• ANZCA anaesthesia training program (outline of the training program).
• Guidelines for the Selection of Trainees (eligibility and selection criteria).
• Regulation 14 (examinations in anaesthesia).
• Regulation 15 (training in anaesthesia).
  
  

To register with the College, you must

• Be a registered medical practitioner.
• Have completed 52 weeks (full-time equivalent) of prevocational medical education and training (PMET).

NOTE: In order to start approved training, you must have completed at least 104 weeks (two years) of PMET.  These 104 weeks can include no more than 52 weeks experience in any combination of clinical anaesthesia, intensive care medicine and pain medicine.

Required documentation

All registrants must provide the following documentation:

• A completed ANZCA registration form.
• A passport photograph.
• A signed and dated Training Agreement.
• Verification of your prevocational medical education and training on an original hospital document or a copy certified by a Justice of the Peace (JP) or an equivalent official.
• A certified copy (in English) of your qualifying medical degree showing the conferment date.
• A copy of your current medical registration. If you are registered in more than one state or country you can submit one or more.
• Registration fee payment (details provided on the registration form).
• 2011 annual training fee  payment (if you are starting approved training).
• A copy of your birth certificate or the identity page of a current passport.
  
• If you have changed your name by marriage or deed poll, a copy of your marriage certificate or change of name notice.

If you are submitting photocopies of your medical degree or prevocational medical education and training experience, it must be certified. The following information must be written on the certified copy:

• “Certified true copy of original document” written on the photocopy.
• Date of certification.
• Signature of certifier.
• Name and position of the certifier.

Applications cannot be processed until the College receives all required documentation.

Once you have completed the registration form, and attached the supporting documentation, please send materials to:

Records Management Unit

ANZCA
PO Box 6095
St Kilda Road Central

VIC 8008 AUSTRALIA

For further information, please contact the Registrations Officer on +61 3 9510 6299 or by email:training@anzca.edu.au

Applicants who begin training after the start of the hospital year

If you are starting your training year at an approved training site, you must first register and pay the annual training fee by January 31 (Australia and New Zealand) or June 30 (Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore). Trainees who begin approved training after the start of the hospital year must pay the annual training fee within one month of the start of approved training.
 

Fees

All new registrants must pay the standard registration fee. If you are already in training or will be starting training within the year you register, you must also pay the annual training fee.

Once you are registered, you are expected to begin approved training within 12 months. If you are not in approved training in the next hospital year, you will be required to pay a registration maintenance fee. This maintains your registration and ensures that you will continue to receive all College publications and correspondence.

Failure to pay the registration maintenance fee will result in your registration being cancelled. You will then need to re-register with the College.

You can pay by credit card, bank draft, money order or cheque drawn on an Australian bank.

Training agreement

ANZCA is committed to ensuring that all parties involved in the training of anaesthesia specialists – ANZCA, its representatives and trainees - understand and are informed of their rights and obligations. 

The training agreement sets out the rights, responsibilities and obligations of each party involved in the training program and helps ensure the transparency of processes and the confidentiality of assessments and decisions.
 

Privacy

In the course of the training program, the College collects and holds personal information for the purpose of registration, clinical training, examination administration, and future Fellowship activities. The information collected and held will not be disclosed to third parties except as required by law.

The reasons for collecting the information and the use to which it is put are outlined in ANZCA's privacy policy.

Re-registration

If you withdraw from the College and decide to recommence your training, you will need to register once again and pay a re-registration fee.  Please contact the Registration Officer (training@anzca.edu.au) for the required forms and underlying conditions.

Training program materials

Upon registration, you will receive a learning portfolio for recording your progress in training and copies of the ANZCA training program curriculum and syllabus.