Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Clinical Practice (PGDipRCP)

Summary

This is an advanced nationally recognised qualification for medical practitioners who staff rural and provincial hospitals. These doctors require broad based specific skills, which may extend beyond that of general practice (but not necessarily rural general practice).Papers in the diploma contribute towards the RNZCGP Rural Hospital Medicine Training Programme.The Diploma (formerly known as the Postgraduate Diploma in Rural and Provincial Hospital Practice (PGDipRPHP)) is not only aimed at registrars in this programme but is open to all generalist doctors working in rural and provincial hospitals, whether or not they are vocationally registered in rural hospital medicine.The Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Clinical Practice (PGDipRCP) is also available through Distance Learning.