Doctors completing their urgent care Fellowship tend to:

  • Have a desire to help people in the community needing treatment urgently.
  • Prefer to help people with acute and urgent conditions.
  • Enjoy working in the fast-paced environment of an urgent care clinic or emergency department.
  • Support the College’s mission to become a worldwide leader in urgent care.

The benefits of training and working in urgent care include:

  • A training programme that can be started at any time (there is no cut-off date for applications).
  • A training programme that considers the needs of part time trainees. The College accommodates breaks from training. Read more.
  • The ability to begin work and earn well immediately. Trainees are usually readily able to find well-paid employment in an urgent care clinic
  • The option of being a medical director of an urgent care clinic, once a Fellow of the College.
  • Flexible work hours, and large choice of workplaces.
  • Ability to work in an emergency department (with a collegial relationship with a FACEM).

Urgent care overseas

Urgent care is a separate branch of medicine only in New Zealand.  Although urgent care physicians have found employment in urgent care facilities and emergency departments in Australia and Europe, they had vocational scopes in addition to urgent care.

The College established an Australian faculty in 2017 to support doctors in that country wishing to develop urgent care there.

RNZCUC has trainees who are based in the UK, Ireland, Singapore, and Australia.