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
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 20, 2025
8 min
Vitamin B6 is both a prescribed medication and available in many over-the-counter preparations. In high and prolonged doses, it can be a cause of peripheral neuropathy.
Check out the Prescriber Update for June 2025
Hemminger A, Wills BK. Vitamin B6 Toxicity. [Updated 2023 Feb 7]. 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
Jun 13, 2025
Jun 13, 2025
9 min
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
Jun 6, 2025
Jun 6, 2025
17 min
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
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
10 min
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
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
7 min
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
May 16, 2025
May 16, 2025
11 min
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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May 9, 2025
May 9, 2025
56 min
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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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
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
12 min
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
Apr 25, 2025
Apr 25, 2025
6 min
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
Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025
14 min
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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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