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DPD update February 2025
Resuscitation courses We are aware of a recent change to the GP College resuscitation requirements, and I wanted to use the newsletter this month to advise you all that the RNZCUC resuscitation requirements are unchanged. The College recertification programme has required an annual resus course for a long time now. We require a certified, examined…
Registrar subcommittee update February 2025
Call for Applications – Registrar Subcommittee 2025 The Registrar Subcommittee represents the interests of trainees within the Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care. We advocate for registrar teaching, policy writing, and training improvements—and we’re looking for new members to join us in 2025! Why join?✅ Represent the Registrar voice in RNZCUC ✅ Gain experience…
Education committee report February 2025
Thank you once again to both trainees and supervisors for your patience as we are undergoing several changes within the training programme, including having introduced a new training programme for trainees commencing in January this year. We welcome feedback at any stage, particularly if there are any concerns as these changes have been implemented –…
DCT update for February 2025
Kia ora koutou, It is my pleasure to produce this month’s DCT newsletter. This newsletter contains a lot of important information for registrars. Pre -Exit SAFUntil the leadership module has been finalised and completed all registrars and supervisors will need to complete a new pre exit SAF. This applies when they have or are near…
Education committee report January 2025
The Education Committee welcomes back everyone from what has hopefully been a refreshing and happy holiday period as we enter into a new year and new training programme in 2025. Online Urgent Care Course We thank you for your patience while the online Urgent Care Course has been taken off-line as we transition to a…
DPD update December 2024
Welcome to the December DPD newsletter. I would like to encourage you all to check out this BPAC page called Recovery at Work – reframing the conversation. One of the metrics that ACC monitor looks at the number of fully unfit for work certificates issued by urgent care clinics. As I understand it, we are…
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…
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…
Education committee report October 2024
The Education committee continues to oversee the review of the training programme, in preparation for the new training programme for those registrars starting from 2025. We have endeavored to keep changes to a minimum for current registrars, and have advised members of these changes in several ways (email, DCT report, and website updates). Please contact…