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Keja Health helps doctors in Aotearoa New Zealand build the skills that complement their clinical training: the real, everyday side of practice that medicine is delivered through. Our courses help you understand how the health system really works, how you fit within it, and how to get the most for patients in a resource-constrained environment.

We want you to feel prepared for and confident in the realities of being a doctor: the responsibilities, systems, judgement, relationships and transitions that shape your day-to-day practice.

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Becoming a consultant is a bigger shift than anyone prepares you for. The medicine you know; it's everything else that catches people out. In the 2025 RACP New Fellow Survey, around a third of new fellows said the move from trainee to consultant was difficult or very difficult.

This course sets out the parts of the job no one sits you down to explain, shaped with consultants who've made the same move, so you step into the role prepared rather than working it out alone.

Three Modules · 7 Hours of Content · Self-paced on Any Device · Free Taster Available

As a registrar, there was always a senior nearby to check your call. Module one works through what changes when that supervision goes and the judgement, in the end, is yours.

Rostering, contracts, meetings, the business side, the service that now partly runs on you. Module two sets out the shape of the job beyond the medicine, so the parts training has less room for are familiar before you meet them.

New Zealand medicine runs on frameworks you're expected to work within: your obligations under Te Tiriti and cultural safety, ACC's no-fault treatment-injury system, and the Code of Rights. The course grounds you in each, so you come away clearer on how the system runs and where you fit within it.

Module three works through independent practice as it really is: decisions made under full accountability, and handling things when they go wrong. It stays honest about the hard parts, impostor syndrome included, rather than pretending they aren't there.

The hard parts are easier with people who've been there. Alongside the course, you can take four live sessions with Kevin in a small group of no more than three clinicians at the same stage. These are reflective, case-based conversations that go beyond the course material rather than repeat it.

What I wasn't ready for was everything the job turned out to be beyond the medicine.

I stepped up during COVID, right in the thick of it. For a while I was the main point of infectious diseases cover for the region, with the guidance changing week to week and the decisions, in the end, mine to make. The medicine I could do. But it was everything else that caught me out: the weight of being the one everyone now turned to, the accountability that used to sit with someone more senior, and the sense of working it all out on my own.

Looking back, what I'd needed was obvious: the practical side of the job set out plainly,
by people who'd been there, and the sense that I wasn't doing it alone.

That's why I built Keja Health, so no doctor has to work it out on their own.

Ngā mihi,

Kevin Chen

The everyday side of practice, made clear: The parts of the job training has less room for: the everyday realities rather than theory, starting with how the system actually works.
Specific to the Aotearoa New Zealand system: How medicine is really practised in Aotearoa and where you fit within it, including the realities and frameworks that shape practice here: resource constraints, ACC, Te Tiriti, the Code of Rights and MCNZ accountability.
Ready for the whole role: The responsibilities doctors say they were least prepared for, especially when the role itself changes: stepping up, moving settings or entering an unfamiliar health system.
Part of your tribe: No doctor should face the hardest parts alone. Keja Health becomes part of your tribe, carrying the lessons of the clinicians who came before you so you don't have to learn them the hard way.

The Consultant Physician Role is where Keja Health starts, not where it stops. We're building a range of courses on the skills that complement clinical training, for doctors at different stages and in different specialties. The next is for international medical graduates finding their feet in the Aotearoa New Zealand system, where the clinical skills carry over but the way medicine is practised here has to be learned.

We're here to change how doctors experience the parts of the job beyond the medicine, the everyday side of practice their training has less room for. Too much of it is still left to be picked up alone, and the hard way: finding your feet shouldn't be left to luck. Often the cost of this is lost confidence and burnout, right at the point when a doctor has the most to give.

We'll email you when a new course is on the way, along with the occasional practical note on the part of the job no one really teaches.

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Medicine trains you to be clinically competent

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Developed with practising clinicians

The real, everyday side of clinical practice

Specific to the Aotearoa health system

OUR FIRST COURSE

The Consultant Physician Role: Navigating The Unknown of Fellowship

A practical online course, specific to Aotearoa New Zealand

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The shift in how you think and decide

The role beyond the clinical work

How the New Zealand system actually works

When the responsibility is fully yours

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