The Education Committee welcomes back everyone from what has hopefully been a refreshing and happy holiday period as we enter into a new year and new training programme in 2025. Online Urgent Care Course We thank you for your patience while the online Urgent Care Course has been taken off-line as we transition to a…
UCPEX UCPEX went as smoothly as ever, and this year we were able to share the results well within the three week window we set ourselves. Results were sent out last week. Registrars – if you are expecting them and haven’t seen them, check your inbox and spam/junk folder. If still not there, contact alex@rnzcuc.org.nz…
Governance review As reported to members in June the College engaged an external consulting company (Allen and Clarke) to complete a review of our governance and operational structures. This report was received in October and makes recommendations relating to the overall governance structure of the college, governance and operational processes, and additional operational staffing requirements.…
Welcome to the December DPD newsletter. I would like to encourage you all to check out this BPAC page called Recovery at Work – reframing the conversation. One of the metrics that ACC monitor looks at the number of fully unfit for work certificates issued by urgent care clinics. As I understand it, we are…
Welcome to the latest DPD newsletter. This month we are looking at how we meet our CPD/CME requirements during the year and includes links to various CPD opportunities at the bottom of the page. In addition to other yearly requirements (Audit, Resus etc) each year we have a minimum requirement of 5 hours of CME…
UCPEX The office is busy getting ready for UCPEX, which is taking place on 15 and 16 November. We will be sending out any final confirmation emails to registrars and examiners by Monday next week. Look out for our emails in your spam/junk folder if you are not receiving them, and if necessary call the…
The Education Committee remains committed to ensuring a quality training programme for Urgent Care. As most of you are aware, we are in a transition period where two training programmes are being run concurrently, for those due to start training in 2025 on the new programme, and all the current registrars who remain on the…
Most of my report is made up of “bits and bobs” that don’t fit in anywhere else. They include: A quick mention of the bootcamp and Fellowship ceremony Seeking volunteers to help progress the Distinguished Fellow concept Governance review latest news Strategy 2030 update Consultation – suicide prevention action plan ACC seeking experts Bootcamp and…
The Education committee continues to oversee the review of the training programme, in preparation for the new training programme for those registrars starting from 2025. We have endeavored to keep changes to a minimum for current registrars, and have advised members of these changes in several ways (email, DCT report, and website updates). Please contact…
This year we took Bootcamp to Wellington, holding it at the Rydges Hotel on September 14 and 15, with the Fellowship ceremony and dinner on the Saturday evening. The Saturday sessions got underway after a wonderful opening Mihi Whakatau from the local iwi. The first three sessions followed the previous Bootcamp format, featuring groups of…