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      • Facility accreditation and approval
        • Approved training facility policy
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  • Home
  • ABOUT URGENT CARE
    • What is urgent care
    • A career in urgent care in Aotearoa
    • Membership, subscriptions, and fees
      • College membership
      • Educational subscription form
      • Newsletter subscription
    • Urgent care overseas
      • Australia
      • Ireland and United Kingdom
    • College Governance
      • Executive Committee
      • Board of Censors
      • Education Committee
      • Professional Standards Committee
      • Facility Audit Committee
      • Australian Faculty Committee
      • Ireland and UK Faculty, RNZCUC
      • Registrar Subcommittee
    • Office
      • Contact us
  • FELLOWSHIP OR TRAINING PATHWAYS
    • Training programme (nz based)
    • Training programme (overseas, CHS country)
    • Accelerated Pathway to Fellowship
    • International Medical Graduates
    • Educational subscription
  • COMPLETING THE TRAINING PROGRAMME
    • Overview for registrars starting before 2025
    • Changes affecting current registrars
    • Overview for post-2024 registrars
    • Early requirements
    • Training programme components
      • New registrar webinar
      • PALS/APLS
      • Trauma
      • Communication course
      • Cultural competency course
      • Online Urgent Care Course
      • Skills Demonstration and Assessment Weekend
      • UCPEX
      • WBA
      • Case reviews
      • Core skills sign off
      • University papers
      • Research Methods in Health
    • Annual CPD
    • Supervision
    • Approved training facilities
    • Pausing training
    • Exit interview
  • FELLOWS
    • Admission to vocational scope
    • Giving back
    • Guide for supervisors
    • Completing WBA
      • Mini CEX
      • DOPS
      • CbD
    • Recertification 2021
      • Overview
      • Clinical hours
      • Structured Annual Conversation
      • Professional Development Plan
      • Peer group activities
      • Resuscitation
      • Measuring and improving outcomes
        • Clinical Notes Audit
        • Multi-source Feedback Survey
        • Audit of a doctors choosing
      • Essential knowledge quiz
      • Educational activities
      • Additional CPD
      • Regular practice review option
      • Other recertification pathways
        • Alternative clinical recertification pathway
        • Non-clinical recertification pathway
        • Special circumstance recertification pathway
        • Overseas Fellow pathway
      • Pausing recertification
  • CLINICS AND TRAINING FACILITIES
    • Accredited urgent care clinics
      • Accredited urgent care clinics
      • Urgent care standard
      • Gaining and maintaining accreditation
      • MD dispensation process
    • Approved Training Facilities
  • PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES
    • Strategy
    • Policies and manuals
      • Governance and administration
        • Appeals policy
        • Cancellation policy
        • College (society) rules
        • Complaints policy
        • Conflict of Interest Policy
        • Clinical practice visit policy
        • Cultural Safety and Equitable Outcomes policy
        • Fees, allowances and travel policy
        • Governance policy
        • Training programme funding and fees
        • Social media policy
        • Social media privacy policy
        • Style guide
        • Training programme costs
      • Training and recertification
        • Accelerated Pathway to Fellowship
        • Appeals policy
        • Case review instructions
        • Clinical practice visit policy
        • Curriculum
        • Examination and assessment policy
        • Fellows’ performance policy
        • Fellowship regulations
        • IMG assessment policy
        • Medical literature project instructions
        • Recognised Prior Learning
        • Registrar performance policy
        • Selection policy
        • Supervision policy
        • Training manual
        • Training programme fees
      • Facility accreditation and approval
        • Approved training facility policy
        • Facility Audit Committee policy and process for audit endorsement
        • Particular requirements with additional RNZCUC comment
        • Urgent Care Standard 2015
    • Position statements
      • Clinical guidelines
      • EOLCA
      • POCUS
      • Resurgence of COVID-19 in NZ
    • UCCIS
    • Educational and CPD resources
    • Urgent care research
    • Cultural safety and equity resources
    • Wellbeing resources
    • Choosing Wisely
    • HDC opinions
    • Easy guides

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Urgent Bite 166 – Torticollis

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose31 March 2023

What are the red flags when we see a patient with torticollis?

Urgent Bite 165 – Thinking about SUFE

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose17 March 2023

SUFEs will often first present in primary care and are easily missed.

Urgent Bite 164 – Thinking about Leukonychia and CPD

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose10 March 2023

Not everything that comes through UC is urgent, but knowing a little about these out-of-scope topics is still necessary.

Urgent Bite 163 – Hypopyon

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose3 March 2023

Looking for and identifying a hypopyon is an important part of the UC eye exam.

Urgent Bite 162 – Seidel’s Test

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose3 March 2023

We should all know how to do Seidel’s test in urgent care.

Urgent Bite 161 – Bowel Cancer in Urgent Care

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose17 February 2023

Good safety netting and follow-up are vital for patients presenting through UC with rectal bleeding.

Urgent Bite 160 – Funded Adrenaline Auto-injectors

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose17 February 2023

As of February 1st, 2023, adrenaline auto-injectors are now funded in New Zealand under Special Authority.

Urgent Bite 159 – Which steroid when the seal barks?

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose17 February 2023

Do you use Prednisone of Dexamethasone for croup?

Urgent Bite 158 – Nasal Septal Haematoma

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose27 January 2023

Always look for a nasal septal haematoma in cases of nasal trauma.

Urgent Bite 157 – Needle Expectation

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose20 January 2023

Does expectation influence the experience of receiving an injection?

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