Position: Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health is looking to employ a Chief Medical Officer.
Humanity: A Taranaki Emergency Medicine Conference 4-5 Feb
Humanity: A Taranaki Emergency Medicine Conference will be taking place in New Plymouth on 4-5 February 2021 and we would kindly ask your team to help promote this event to your Emergency Department staff, doctors, nurses and any other people who may be interested. This is a great opportunity for people to extend their emergency medicine skills within activities that we all love to do as Taranaki residents and earn some CPD points.
Finding urgent care (and the value of recognising a speciality)
How did you discover urgent care existed? This New Zealand based perspective published in the JUCM demonstrates how urgent care is the career many people do not realise exists. It also argues that for urgent care to grow and develop around the world, having a College like the RNZCUC delivering a government recognised Fellowship programme is the way forward.
Diverticulitis and antibiotics: time to change practice?
Evidence based medicine. Why is evidence ignored? Your guess is as good as mine.
Urgent Bite 74 – Avulsed teeth transport medium
What is the best medium in which to transport an avulsed tooth?
Hand injury Webinar
Dr Rachel Lee is going to expand on her talk from this year’s Virtual Urgent Care Bootcamp in a free RNZCUC webinar on Monday 2nd November at 1830. Rachel is a senior registrar in Urgent Care who has completed several years training in plastic surgery. This live webinar presentation will last 1 hour, and there will be about 20 minutes for Q+A at the end.
Do children sprain wrists? -with Dr David Sorrell
Do you diagnose children with wrist sprains?
Revised recertification programme
Over the last 18 months, the College has been revising the recertification programme in line with the new MCNZ guidelines that all Colleges must meet. We presented the initial plans at a webinar back in September, which some of you were able to attend. We have had some enquiries following the RNZCGP announcing the rollout of their programme so we would like to give you a rough road map of our College plans.
Te Rā Haumaru Tūroro o Aotearoa | Aotearoa Patient Safety Day 2020
As you know, this year Te Rā Haumaru Tūroro o Aotearoa | Aotearoa Patient Safety Day will be celebrated on 17 November 2020.
The day is coordinated by the Health Quality & Safety Commission, with support from ACC and PHARMAC, and promoted throughout the health sector. The theme is Getting through together | Whāia e tātou te pae tawhiti.
Choosing Wisely Means Choosing Equity 2020
The report Choosing Wisely means Choosing Equity recommends a number of changes to make the Choosing Wisely campaign more effective for Māori.