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General, obstetric and cardiac scanning. Registered in New Zealand; accredited rather than registered in Australia.

Plain film, CT, mammography, theatre and interventional work; MRI is a separate added scope of practice. Titled medical imaging technologist in New Zealand.

Planning and delivering treatment across the cancer-centre networks in both countries.

SPECT/CT and PET/CT practice, with theranostics expanding quickly. In New Zealand it is a registered MRTB scope covered by trans-Tasman recognition — with a firm boundary on which CT you may report.

Specialist registration in both countries, assessed for comparability by the college rather than the regulator alone.

Generalist theatre breadth, a scope that reaches into intensive care and pain, and one of the quicker registration routes.

Smaller departments, senior doctors on the floor, and retrieval work inside the working week.

Community general practice, with vocational registration and a real shortage behind it.

A Lead Maternity Carer model, mixed obstetric and gynaecological lists, and one of the quicker registration routes.

General paediatric breadth, child health that reaches outside the hospital, and one of the quicker registration routes.

Community-first services, a sustained shortage, and a supplementary registration form specific to the specialty.

Two councils in New Zealand, one board in Australia — and in Australia a streamlined assessment route that cuts the published timeline considerably.

A separate council in New Zealand and the Lead Maternity Carer model; in Australia, assessed separately from nursing and outside the streamlined route.

Hospital, community and private practice, including ACC-funded caseloads that have no equivalent elsewhere.

Acute, rehabilitation and community practice across the public system.

Self-regulated through NZSTA rather than a statutory board. No vacancy listed at the moment; the registration route is on the page either way.

A registered profession here, unlike Australia. Every overseas route ends in provisional registration and a supervised practice year.

Registration is mandatory and gates the job rather than following it, which puts it first in the sequence.

Adult, CAMHS and rehabilitation practice, with registration through the Psychologists Board.

A regulated profession in New Zealand, which is not the case in every country people move from.