For this month’s newsletter, I wish to share information on the following
- Presenters wanted for the Virtual Bootcamp 2025
- Telehealth Survey
- Urgent Care Research Network
Presenters wanted for the Virtual Bootcamp 2025
Bootcamp will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2025, and will run from 0800 – 1700. This year it is virtual, with all presentations taking place using zoom webinar.
This online educational day complements our in-person biennial Bootcamp and enables easy access to College produced CPD for all our members.
The Bootcamp will follow the usual format. Four talks, each 15 minutes long, to be presented in succession culminating in a Q+A to all 4 presenters. This makes each session about 80-90 minutes long and the idea is for each talk to distil a practice-changing piece of information for attendees to take forward into their future work.
We are looking for volunteers to offer an expression of interest to present. We are keen for anyone with an interesting case, a practice-changing tip, or thought-provoking idea to put their name forward for consideration. We hope to provide a broad and diverse selection of topics and are keen for any urgent care clinician to be involved. So, if you are a Fellow, registrar, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, or paramedic, please consider expressing an interest.
For those interested, please complete this JotForm survey and I will be in touch by the end of April 2025.
Telehealth Survey
Telehealth has become increasingly prevalent in healthcare of late and the College would like to survey urgent care clinicians to get an idea of how much telehealth is being done in the urgent care setting and establish what are the predominant feelings around its use.
We understand that you are busy clinicians but would appreciate you taking a few minutes to complete this anonymous survey. You may claim this as a CPD activity so long as you also include your reflections within UCCIS when you do so.
The information gathered during this process will help inform future College positions on the topic and guide potential educational support. The survey will close on Sunday 4 May 2025.
Urgent Care Research Network
The College has started an Urgent Care Research Network to bring together clinicians working in urgent care who have an interest, experience, or both in research. We hope that by linking people together in a formal group we will support those who are interested in growing the body of urgent care research. The inaugural meeting is being arranged but people are free to join the network at any time. For further details and a link to the registration form follow this link.