Urgent Bite 238 – Possible Assistance Needed
Do you have a way to quickly and succinctly indicate that there is a possible patient of clinical concern within your clinic?
Recovery at work – ACC work certification
As clinicians in urgent care, we see many injuries covered by ACC. We are, therefore, responsible for completing many ACC 45 forms, which indicate a patient’s work capacity following their injury. We will also complete many ACC 18 forms for patients returning for planned reviews (Fracture Clinics) or who choose to return to urgent care.…
Tachycardic patients in Urgent Care – Dr Lindsey Fish
This week we talk with Dr Lindsey Fish, Medical Director of the Peña Southwest Urgent Care Clinic at the Denver Health and Hospital. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Urgent Bite 237 – Considering Osgood-Schlatter Disease in Adults
While occurring in adolescents, Osgood-Schlatter Disease can persist into adulthood and is an important differential for anterior knee pain.
DPD update November 2024
Welcome to the latest DPD newsletter. This month we are looking at how we meet our CPD/CME requirements during the year and includes links to various CPD opportunities at the bottom of the page. In addition to other yearly requirements (Audit, Resus etc) each year we have a minimum requirement of 5 hours of CME…
Report from the General Manager November 2024
UCPEX The office is busy getting ready for UCPEX, which is taking place on 15 and 16 November. We will be sending out any final confirmation emails to registrars and examiners by Monday next week. Look out for our emails in your spam/junk folder if you are not receiving them, and if necessary call the…
Dr Joshua Russell – Recapping Bootcamp 2024
Dr Joshua Russell, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine came to New Zealand from the USA for our Bootcamp in Wellington. Here we discuss his thoughts on NZ, UC down under, the future of Urgent Care and why UC research is so important.
Education committee report November 2024
The Education Committee remains committed to ensuring a quality training programme for Urgent Care. As most of you are aware, we are in a transition period where two training programmes are being run concurrently, for those due to start training in 2025 on the new programme, and all the current registrars who remain on the…
JUCM Fellowship in Medical Writing and Editing
As announced at our Bootcamp weekend in Wellington, the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine (JUCM) has just launched a Fellowship in Medical Writing and Editing. This should interest anyone interested in medical writing, publishing and journalism. It is hoped that this Fellowship will run yearly. Anyone interested in discussing future Fellowship opportunities should contact the…