This update includes details on the following:
- UCCIS version 2 reminders and top tips
- Bootcamp weekend
- Research Network
- And finally, one more thing
UCCIS version 2 reminders and top tips
You will have received emails from Adrian and members of the office team instructing you about UCCIS version 2. These updates include details of any bugs and fixes.
This new platform enables the College to monitor and track your CPD portfolios much more easily, and the platform as a whole works much faster. I hope you all find it beneficial as you become more familiar with it. I just wanted to highlight a few important features and differences to UCCIS version 1, which are important for you all to know.
CLINICAL HOURS – Please note Adrian’s previous emails regarding the importance of uploading your current places of work in the workplace section of UCCIS v2. Without adding your workplace, you are unable to claim clinical hours, and your CPD portfolio will not register the hours.
To add your workplace:
Click Workplace in the left column (1), add your workplace (2) and , then select Add Urgent Care Workplace (4). If it is your primary workplace, click the star icon (3).
CME SPILLOVER – Once you have loaded 5 hours of CME, meeting your minimum CME requirement for a year, any excess hours entered in that section do not automatically spillover into the additional CPD. Therefore, once your 5-hour minimum has been met, load all additional CME that year into the additional CPD section. If you load a conference in the CME section that is 8 hours, the first 5 will count, but you will need to add the extra 3 hours in the additional CPD, using the entry “CME spillover”. Excess Peer Review hours will also need to be added to the CPD section.
EMPTY YEARS – When you start a new CPD year, the timeline in UCCIS v2 looks empty. Version 1 used to show all the activity sections within the timeline, regardless of whether you had entered anything. But version 2 only shows the activity section in the timeline once you load an activity. This is a small cosmetic difference but has confused some people.
TRANSFER OF ACTIVITIES – Activities loaded in version 1 have been transferred to version 2. If you uploaded anything in the last month to version 1, these will not have been transferred, so please re-upload to version 2. You may find that clinical hours entered in version 1 are no longer showing as counting. This relates to the first point above and requires you to enter your workplace. You may also notice that activities transferred from the CME section are not rolling over to count as additional CPD (see above). If we notice this at rollover, we are making allowances, but if you see items in the wrong place, you can add a new activity and delete the old entry.
Bootcamp Weekend
We would love you to join us for the Bootcamp weekend in Auckland on September 18/19/20. We have POCUS workshops, resus courses, a research network meeting and 2 days of CME featuring short Bootcamp educational sessions and longer talks from external experts. Sandwiched within is the Fellowship ceremony and dinner, and the celebrations for 25 years of UC scope in New Zealand. Come and join us at the Ellerslie Novotel.
Details available at this link
Research Network
The research Network will be meeting all day on the Friday before Bootcamp. We have people attending with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences in research, and the plan is for the day to include educational talks as well as discussions and brainstorming of ideas. We hope to make connections and develop ideas that bear fruit and result in the creation of new and continuing research in the urgent care field. If you are interested, sign up for the network and also come along to our network day.
And finally, one more thing
I am interested in how many people read these updates all the way through. If you have, send me an email to dpd@rnzcuc.org.nz and the first person to do so will receive a gift voucher. (EDIT – the gift card has been claimed, but thank you to those who have emailed so far.)
Ngā mihi nui,
Dr. Guy Melrose – Director of Professional Development