Torohia is Aotearoa New Zealand’s annual national Medical Training Survey led by Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa | Medical Council of New Zealand. It gives doctors in training an opportunity to provide feedback about their training experiences.
In the first year, 2025, all doctors in accredited prevocational and vocational training programmes will be invited to participate. Approximately 5,000 doctors in training are currently enrolled in these programmes. From 2026, non-training registrars will also be able to take part.
Modelled on the successful Australian Medical Training Survey (MTS), Torohia is designed to gather information from doctors in training about workplace culture, clinical experiences, supervision, wellbeing, training opportunities and future career intentions.
Responses are anonymous and confidential, and findings will be published ensuring that doctors in training cannot be identified by the data presented. Over time, survey results will provide a national picture of training experiences by region, specialty and training site, and highlight areas where improvements have been made based on earlier findings.
For prevocational and vocational trainees in the medical training environment
For training providers and employers
That are run by Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa | Medical Council of New Zealand (Council) and the Australian Medical Council (AMC).
Torohia is a tool for change. By listening to and acting on the experiences of doctors in training, we can create safer and more supportive medical training — and strengthen protection of the health and safety of the public.
Torohia was developed in partnership between the Council and a wide range of stakeholders including representatives of doctors in training, prevocational medical training providers and specialist medical colleges.
We are particularly grateful to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) for their generosity in sharing their experience and the Medical Training Survey (MTS) questions.
An independent research agency, Perceptive, manages the delivery of the survey online, and the analysis and reporting of the data collected.
- Doctors in training
- Te Kāhui Whakamana Tiriti (Council’s expert Māori advisory group)
- Whakawaha (Council’s consumer advisory group)
- Prevocational medical training providers (Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Districts)
- Council of Medical Colleges and the specialist medical colleges
- Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora senior management
- Medical Schools: University of Auckland and University of Otago
- Ahpra and MBA (responsible for the Australian MTS)
- Many other organisations and individuals have also provided valuable input.