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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 156 – Thinking about hand lacerations in urgent care

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose13 January 2023

We should be cautious with penetrating volar hand lacerations.

Urgent Bite 155 – CYP3A4 interactions with statins

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose13 January 2023

A drug interaction that should be at the front of our minds.

Repeating Vital Signs in Urgent Care – with Dr Joshua Russell

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose30 December 2022

We are joined by Dr Joshua Russell, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine to talk about why we should be doing more vital sign re-checks in urgent care.

Urgent Care is for life, not just for Christmas

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose23 December 2022

Urgent Care is for life, not just for Christmas

Urgent Bite 154 – Thinking Scarlet Fever and how skin colour affects rashes

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose16 December 2022

The rash of scarlet fever looks different, depending on skin colour.

Urgent Bite 153 – Nil by Mouth, and Drinking Tea

PodcastsBy Guy Melrose9 December 2022

It benefits our patients to remember to advise on whether they should remain nil by mouth on acute referral to hospital.

And conversely, a cup of tea can have beneficial treatment effects.

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