Medicine trains you to be clinically competent.

Keja Health helps you to succeed in the role.

Keja Health helps doctors in Aotearoa New Zealand build the skills that complement their clinical training: the everyday side of practice that medicine is delivered through. That means understanding how the system works, knowing where you fit within it, and looking after your patients well in a resource-constrained environment – so you feel prepared and confident in your practice.
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How we got here

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On paper, I was ready to be a consultant. I'd trained in Christchurch through the earthquakes, finished my specialty training in the Bay of Plenty during COVID, and qualified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.

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.

It didn't exist, so I built it.

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

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OUR FIRST COURSE

The Consultant Physician Role: Navigating The Unknown of Fellowship

A practical online course,
specific to Aotearoa New Zealand

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

What the course includes

How our courses are made

Every Keja Health course is shaped with practising clinicians and subject matter experts, reviewed by our Clinical Advisory Board, and grounded in the reality of the ward and in conversations across the profession. Four things hold true in every one:
  • 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.

Upcoming Courses

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.

From there we follow the need, wherever the everyday side of practice is left to chance: working across areas such as generalism in resource-constrained centres, communicating clearly with patients who have low health literacy, or specialty practice in the New Zealand context. We want you to feel prepared and confident in your practice.

About Keja Health

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.

So we take what clinicians have already worked out and put it within reach: one practical course at a time, each built for Aotearoa New Zealand. We've started with the step up to consultant, and we're building from there.

Upcoming Courses

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.

From there we follow the need, wherever the everyday side of practice is left to chance: working across areas such as generalism in resource-constrained centres, communicating clearly with patients who have low health literacy, or specialty practice in the New Zealand context. We want you to feel prepared and confident in your practice.

About Keja Health

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.

So we take what clinicians have already worked out and put it within reach: one practical course at a time, each built for Aotearoa New Zealand. We've started with the step up to consultant, and we're building from there.

Keep Informed

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, and a short story from a clinician who's been there.
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Our Mission

To prepare doctors for the whole role their clinical expertise has to operate within: the responsibilities, systems, judgement and relationships that shape day-to-day practice, so they step into what's next prepared and confident, and no one has to find their feet alone.

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