English Language Requirements
Communicating with patients, medical staff and colleagues is a core competency required of a medical radiation technologist. If your medical radiation technology training was carried out in a language other than English, you will need to provide the Board with evidence that you are proficient in English, prior to registration being approved.
This can be done through either providing your results of an assessment using the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), or two testimonials from English-speaking supervisors stating you can communicate effectively in English in the medical imaging environment.
The Board accepts results in the academic version of the IELTS. You must attain an overall score of no less than 7.5, and band scores of no less than 7 in any category of the academic version of the IELTS. Your IELTS results must be no more than two years old.
For more information on undertaking an IELTS assessment click here (link to www.ielts.org) or you can download a copy of a list of IELTS test centres in New Zealand at the bottom of this page.
