Urgent Bite 245 – Neurapraxia
It is important to check peripheral neurology after trauma. Neurapraxia, with an o, is one cause of altered sensation.
Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Setting
This two-day course is run by the University of Auckland and is designed for everyday clinical educators working across a variety of disciplines. It covers facilitating small group learning, planning tutorials, supervising clinical students, using feedback, remediating professionalism lapses, teaching cultural safety and assessing mini-cex. It will be an ideal course for urgent care supervisors…
DPD update January 2025
Welcome to the first DPD newsletter of 2025. Happy New Year. The College is forming the Urgent Care Research Network. This will be a voluntary network of urgent care clinicians interested in research and aims to result in increased urgent care specific research being published. Within the urgent care community, there are clinicians with experience…
Urgent Care Research Network
The Royal New Zealand College of Urgent Care is establishing an Urgent Care Research Network to bring together anyone with an interest in all aspects connected to research in the urgent care field. It is hoped that by connecting people who share a common interest in developing urgent care research we will be able to…
Urgent Bite 244 – Is it a Fracture or a Break?
Are your patients aware that a fracture is the same as a break? Do they think that one is worse than the other?
JUCM – Abstracts in Urgent Care
Each month, the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine (JUCM) present its Abstracts in Urgent Care. Edited by Dr Ivan Koay FRNZCUC, these posts cover around 6 recently published papers and breaks them down into digestible form, clearly identifying the benefit to urgent care. These abstracts are a great source of regular CME. Claim for time…
Urgent Bite 243 – DKA with SGLT-2 inhibitors
Type 2 diabetics can present with a DKA associated with SGLT-2 inhibitors. And it may be euglycaemic. So be wary.
Urgent Bite 242 – Thinking about worms and abdominal pain
Pinworms are often asymptomatic, or cause mild pruritus ani, but do they cause abdominal pain?
The Night Before – An Ode to Urgent Care
If you are working in urgent care over the holiday period, thank you.
A Christmas Bite – Myocardial Infarction at Christmas
While the Christmas period is supposed to be a happy holiday for all, there are many increased stressors at this time of year. These papers give food for thought for the season.