Clinical Training Agency in New Zealand

Post Entry Clinical Training Programmes

PECT Definition and Eligibility

PECT is specifically defined as:

Post-Entry occurs after entry to a health profession, so that a person is eligible to practise as a health practitioner under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, and

Clinical is clinically focussed with the trainee spending at least 30 percent of total programme related hours in the direct delivery of health and disability Services to service users, and

Training is a programme equivalent to a minimum duration of at least six full time months that leads to a nationally recognised qualification.

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