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…
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…
Are your patients aware that a fracture is the same as a break? Do they think that one is worse than the other?
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…
Type 2 diabetics can present with a DKA associated with SGLT-2 inhibitors. And it may be euglycaemic. So be wary.
Pinworms are often asymptomatic, or cause mild pruritus ani, but do they cause abdominal pain?
If you are working in urgent care over the holiday period, thank you.
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.
Registrations for the Goodfellow Symposium 2025 are open. It is on the weekend of March 22 and 23, 2025. For the urgent care stream, we have some fantastic talks. Dr Craig Ellis asks – are we underthinking anaphylaxis? Things you were taught that might be wrong. Dr Rachael Niederer will talk to us about sudden…
We should be familiar with Reye Syndrome and its association with aspirin.