Home of the Official Podcasts of the RNZCUC - these are intended to provide ongoing education for medical professionals and should not be used for self diagnosis. Always consult your regular doctor. Always work within your scope of practice.
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It is important to check for hyphaema, blood in the anterior chamber of the eye, after trauma. It is also important to use a slit lamp to check for microhyphaema.
Check out Urgent Bite 162 on Seidel's test
Check out Urgent Bite 163 on Hypopyon
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Full Grip by Score Squad
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Friday Apr 25, 2025
Friday Apr 25, 2025
ANZAC day prompts us to reflect on the past.
As clinicians, reflective practice is a necessary part of our ongoing learning and development. However, reflecting is not just for our clinical practice.
Check out details of the Te Papa exhibition - Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War.
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A loop from Indomitable by Elliot Middleton
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Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
How can we avoid errors associated with cognitive biases? In retrospect, we can easily see these biases unfold, but how can we identify them as they happen?
Check out the paper mentioned
Croskerry P. Achieving quality in clinical decision making: cognitive strategies and detection of bias. Acad Emerg Med. 2002 Nov;9(11):1184-204. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2002.tb01574.x. PMID: 12414468.
Norman G, Pelaccia T, Wyer P, Sherbino J. Dual process models of clinical reasoning: The central role of knowledge in diagnostic expertise. J Eval Clin Pract. 2024 Aug;30(5):788-796. doi: 10.1111/jep.13998. Epub 2024 Jun 2. PMID: 38825755.
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Friday Apr 11, 2025
Friday Apr 11, 2025
A tip to ensure you align the vermilion border accurately.
Check out the Laceration Repair blog page
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Friday Apr 04, 2025
Friday Apr 04, 2025
Do you use colchicine for acute gout flares? Are you aware of the risk factors for toxicity?
Check out the Prescriber update for March 2025
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Friday Mar 28, 2025
Friday Mar 28, 2025
What is the knee to wall test and what does it measure?
Check out the Physiopaedia page on the Knee to Wall Test
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Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Do you establish the patient agenda at each consultation?
Singh Ospina N, Phillips KA, Rodriguez-Gutierrez R, Castaneda-Guarderas A, Gionfriddo MR, Branda ME, Montori VM. Eliciting the Patient's Agenda- Secondary Analysis of Recorded Clinical Encounters. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Jan;34(1):36-40. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4540-5. Epub 2018 Jul 2. PMID: 29968051; PMCID: PMC6318197.
If you want to join the RNZCUC Urgent Care Research Network, check out the link here.
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Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
An eponym named after the patient.
Check out the Ortho Bullets Page by Dr M Steffes and Dr C Ahmad
Check out these two videos from YouTube by The Physio Channel and Sports Med review showing two ways to examine the Ulna Collateral ligament of the Elbow
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Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
What conditions should we consider in hair professionals?
Check out the papers mentioned
Al Shenawi H, Al Saad S, Al Shenawi N, Al Rumaihi N, Salmeen Z, Al Sadeh N, Alfehaid AM, Alshelali M, Bin-Jabr MA, Alzeyadi HA, Daoud RM. Prevalence of interdigital pilonidal sinus in hair professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study. J Occup Environ Hyg. 2025 Jan;22(1):31-36. doi: 10.1080/15459624.2024.2420984. Epub 2024 Dec 4. PMID: 39631031. Link to paper
Gannon MX, Crowson MC, Fielding JW. Periareolar pilonidal abscesses in a hairdresser. BMJ. 1988 Dec 24-31;297(6664):1641-2. doi: 10.1136/bmj.297.6664.1641-a. PMID: 3147779; PMCID: PMC1838871. Link to paper
Dermnet page on Skin problems for Hairdressers and Barbers. By Susan Ford Bsc (Hons) 2012 - Link to page
Check out this clip from one of Fred Dibnah's BBC documentaries.
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Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Seeing Bitot's spots is pathognomic of vitamin A deficiency.
Check out the papers mentioned
Song P, Adeloye D, Li S, Zhao D, Ye X, Pan Q, Qiu Y, Zhang R, Rudan I; Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG). The prevalence of vitamin A deficiency and its public health significance in children in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and modelling analysis. J Glob Health. 2023 Aug 11;13:04084. Link
Dermnet page on Vitamin A Deficiency by Brian Wu
Bitot Spots: A Pathognomonic Sign of Vitamin A Deficiency Das, Souvik et al. The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 136, Issue 10, e195 - e196 Link
Management of Bitot Spots. Umesh Krishna, MD, Sumana J. Kamath, MD, and Madhurima K. Nayak, MD
Edited by Sharon Fekrat, MD, and Ingrid U. Scott, MD, MPH Dec 2016 EyeNet Magazine. Link
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