Compliance, pausing, post-nominal letters
Please read this post about the use of post-nominal letters if no longer a member, pausing training or recertification, and compliance.
Urgent Care Remuneration Survey 2021 Results
Thank you to those who completed this survey which we hope will be of use to both Urgent Care Doctors and Employers. The results were sub-analysed according to seniority, location and type of clinic. The corresponding figures for December 2019 are also presented but it should be noted that due to anonymity it is not possible to say if the respondents were substantially the same as in 2019 so a direct comparison may not be valid.
New curriculum
The Curriculum subcommittee has completed the new curriculum document. We wish to acknowledge and thank the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and the Division of Rural Hospital Medicine New Zealand for their generous support in developing this document by permitting use of their Core Curriculum Statement as a base.
College Administrator / Executive Assistant
We’re now looking for someone to fill the role of Executive Assistant to the General Manager, to support our drive to meet our high-quality assurance requirements.
Information Systems Support
The administration team is seeking a skilled, dynamic, team player to join us.
Urgent Care Bootcamp 2021
The programme for the Second ever RNZCUC Bootcamp conference is taking shape, and tickets will be on sale soon. We are thrilled to be heading to the South Island and the beautiful city of Christchurch. Among many exciting speakers, we are delighted to announce that Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director General for Health and Dr Anna Clark, Deputy Director-General, will be attending the weekend.
Educational resources
We now offer annual educational resources subscription to non-members.
Annual College survey and results
Thank you to everyone who completed the annual survey. I’m pleased to say that responses were generally positive, but we do have some initiatives in place to make this even better. The winners of the draw are also announced.
Revised recertification 2021 – presentation
We’re busy completing the latest draft of the revised recertification programme. Next week we’ll post the programme on the website, and we aim to hold a webinar in the following week to allow members to ask questions about the programme.
For now, please see the key differences between the current and draft future programme.
Specialist clinics
The Executive Committee has unanimously agreed to endorse the Education Committee’s proposal that specialist clinics be made optional with immediate effect. The reason for the change is that registrar feedback is that they are difficult to organise and learning is limited. The Education Committee advise that the core skills lists cover many of the items…