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
Oct 2, 2020
Oct 2, 2020
4 min
If you are looking for an analogue way to keep track of your life tasks, it is worth having a look at the Bullet Journal method.
Check out the official Bullet Journal site - https://bulletjournal.com
Watch the TEDx talk by Ryder Carroll - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym6OYelD5fA
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Sep 25, 2020
Sep 25, 2020
26 min
Asthma is a common presentation to Urgent Care. How do the new adolescent and adult guidelines for NZ affect our management in Urgent Care? We speak with one of the guideline authors, Dr James Fingleton.
James lists his competing interests within the guideline document below
See the Guidelines here - https://www.nzrespiratoryguidelines.co.nz/adultguidelines.htmlc
BPAC article - https://bpac.org.nz/2020/asthma.aspx
Follow James on Twitter - https://twitter.com/jamesfingleton
Follow the Asthma Foundation - https://twitter.com/AsthmaFndation
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
3 min
This week is Māori language week and next week is NZ Sign Language week. An improved knowledge of two of New Zealand's official languages will improve our ability to deliver health care to our patients.
https://www.tewikiotereomaori.co.nz
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
4 min
Have you come across the Os Styloideum before?
Read the paper mentioned - Greditzer et al. Prevalence of Os Styloideum in National Hockey Players. Sports Health. 2017 Sep-Oct; 9(5): 469-473 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582696/
Check out the Radiopaedia pages on Os Styloideum and Carpal Boss - https://radiopaedia.org/articles/os-styloideum and https://radiopaedia.org/articles/carpal-boss-1?lang=us
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Sep 4, 2020
Sep 4, 2020
41 min
The historic streets of Edinburgh are layered with hundreds of years of medical history. During a modern day global pandemic, a look back at the past can inform the present.
Find details of the walk I followed at the RCPE website
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/talks/medical-history-walking-tour
James Young Simpson - demonstrated use of Chloroform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Young_Simpson
Joseph Lister - the Father of modern Surgery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister
Robert Philip - pioneer in treatment of TB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_William_Philip
The Historic Charlotte Square
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Square
The paper on the 1997 Hogmanay event - O'Donnell JJ, Gleeson AP, Smith H. Edinburgh's Hogmanay Celebrations: beyond a major disaster. J Accid Emerg Med. 1998 Jul;15(4): 272-273. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9681315/
Burke and Hare - the famous bodysnatchers/murderers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders
The Edinburgh Infirmary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Infirmary_of_Edinburgh
Surgeons Hall riot and the Edinburgh Seven
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeons%27_Hall_riot
The Surgeons Hall Museum
Deacon Brodie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brodie
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Braes of Melinish by Harpo Marks
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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
Aug 28, 2020
Aug 28, 2020
34 min
New Zealand has a national out of hospital STEMI pathway. Aaron Turner, a St John Intensive Care Paramedic in Christchurch, talks us through the pathways and what Urgent Care needs to know about it.
Find Aaron on twitter - https://twitter.com/AaronTuNZ
Read the paper mentioned - Dicker B et al - Direct transport to PCI-capable hospitals after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in New Zealand: Inequities and outcomes - Resuscitation - 2019 Sep;142:111-116.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31271727/
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Aug 21, 2020
Aug 21, 2020
9 min
Have you used lignocaine drops to help the pain caused by an acute otitis media?
Check out the RCH Melbourne guidelines on acute otitis media- https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/guideline_index/Acute_otitis_media/
Also read this article from the Journal of Family Practice
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183864/
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Aug 14, 2020
Aug 14, 2020
30 min
Dr Avijit Barai talks us through a 9 step systematic approach to looking at ECGs.
Check out his You Tube Video on the topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdGARU_l6IE
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Aug 7, 2020
Aug 7, 2020
9 min
Thinking about how we communicate information to patients and colleagues is hugely important.
Check out Dave's post on Facebook and the link to the medical jousting article.
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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
Jul 31, 2020
Jul 31, 2020
6 min
Today we look at what the RNZCUC has planned for the rest of 2020.
I am sorry there is no educational interview this week.
Check out the Virtual Bootcamp - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/urgent-care-boot-camp-2020-programme/
Check out the NZWCS wound awareness week - https://rnzcuc.org.nz/nzwcs-wound-awareness-week/
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Full Grip by ScoreSquad
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