While many hospitals struggle to recruit junior doctors, Dunedin and Wakari Hospitals have few vacancies for the coming year.
Twenty-two house officers have been recruited, leaving only one vacancy.
Twenty of these employees are new graduates from the University of Otago's school of medicine, who will begin work in November.
As well as house officers, about 40 registrars have been recruited,with only a few places still to be filled. Discussions are being held with interested doctors.
Resident medical officers unit manager Rhonda Skilling told the board hospital advisory committee that some house officers had been promoted to registrar - a positive outcome for the board's " grow your own" philosophy.
