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.
Episodes
4 days ago
4 days ago
There are a few Hutchinson's signs, but this one relates to Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus.
Check out the StatPearls page on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus
Minor M, Payne E. Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus. [Updated 2023 Aug 14]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-.
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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday Jun 06, 2025
Friday Jun 06, 2025
How do you remove an embedded fishhook?
Check out the ALIEM page by Dr Riveros, Dr Kim and Dr Dyer
Check out the AAFP article by Dr Gammons and Dr Jackson
Link to the UpToDate page (subscription required)
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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday May 30, 2025
Friday May 30, 2025
We can diagnose a TFCC injury clinically. Management is much like any sprain, but ongoing issues may need a hand surgeon workup.
Check out the OrthoBullets page by Dr Abassi and Dr Vitale
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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
Testing for dysdiadochokinesia is simple, and something we learned way back at the start of medical training. But it is a useful and important test to still do in urgent care
Check out the Stat Pearls Page
Rocha Cabrero F, De Jesus O. Dysdiadochokinesia. [Updated 2023 Aug 23]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2025 Jan-.
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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Onychomycosis is not an urgent condition, but it can present through urgent care.
Check out the recent BPAC page, reviewed by Prof Amanda Oakley
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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday May 09, 2025
Friday May 09, 2025
This week, we chat with Khang Gan and Erin Carn-Bennett from MedSim Solutions.
We discuss psychologically safe simulations and how they can benefit practice. We discuss the benefits of in-house resus simulations and how these can be achieved in urgent care. We also discussed a 4-hour in-house paediatric resus course that they run, which is endorsed as a resus refresher with the College.
Check out the MedSim Solutions endorsed course
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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
Friday May 02, 2025
Friday May 02, 2025
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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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
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
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice, always consult your usual doctor
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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Full Grip by Score Squad
This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor
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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This podcast is intended to assist in ongoing medical education and peer discussion for qualified health professionals. Please ensure you work within your scope of practice at all times. For personal medical advice always consult your usual doctor