Special Events for Urgent Care Providers
In addition to our own Fall Conference and Annual
Convention, UCAOA occasionally has access to special trips
and programs of interest to urgent care providers. We encourage you to explore the programs below to learn more about international and special local urgent care programs.
Upcoming Special Events
The Emergence of Urgent Care - An International Perspective
March 7-8, 2008 - Auckland, New Zealand
The Accident and Medical Practitioners Association and the Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine will be hosting the first gathering of international urgent care leaders at their Conference, "The Emergence of Urgent Care: International Perspectives" March 7-9, 2008. Urgent care leaders will discuss the global impact of urgent care in the only country to recognize urgent care as a distinct specialty of medicine - New Zealand. UCAOA's President, Dr. Lee Resnick, will be featured as a speaker for the Conference, along with urgent care leaders from Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Alaska - Summer 2008 
Have a desire to go to Alaska? Want to
experience the real Alaska up close? Join us in July
of 2008 for a seminar and
networking in the unique and genuine wilds of
Alaska!
We are arranging a very special experience for
those who like the outdoors, fishing, wildlife
and who have dreams of seeing Alaska first hand
and face-to-face. This
seminar is in coordination with Midwest Educational
Institute of Rockford, IL which specializes in CME Adventure
Seminars. Details are expected to be released in
the fall of 2007. If you would like to receive the
information on this program please send an email
to incentives@datatek.net to
be put on the information list. Note that there is
limited space and this program will fill very
quickly when released.
Recent Events
Urgent Care: A New Specialty Solves Old Problems
November 7, 2007 - Jerusalem, Israel
The first Israeli National Conference in Urgent Care Medicine was held by at the Regency Hotel, Jerusalem on November 7th. The event was produced by Terem Urgent Care Medical Centers in association with Terem’s affiliates, the Department of Family Practice, Hadassah Medical School. Some 250 physicians attended the conference, a number exceeding the expectation of the organizers and a likely consequence of the widespread use of medical informatics in everyday use at Terem centers to communicate with the community physicians about their patients who are seen in Terem Urgent Care Centers.
In addition to a broad-based and interesting academic program (http://www.terem.com/ppts/ClickMeToSeePresentations.html) (in Hebrew) featuring senior Terem medical personnel and guests from throughout the country, the conference chaired a panel discussion about common infectious disease management, and in the afternoon, it staged the 5th annual academic debate between residents of the Department of Family Practice, Hadassah, and the Pediatric Department of Hadassah Mount Scopus. This year’s debate had the family practice residents supporting a motion not to refer to hospital a 6 year old child with radiologically-confirmed moderate to severe pneumonia, preferring to manage the case by means of the physician’s office and Urgent Care Centers.
Project ROAM (Hebrew initials for Primary Care Physicians Affiliated to Terem Urgent Care) which has been piloted since September 2007 was presented, whereby primary care physicians who had registered, were being sent notification in the form of password-protected links when their patients visit a Terem Urgent Care Center. The links could be used to access the clinical data at Terem from series of patient visits. From the conference onwards, there is an upgraded version of the software enabling the primary care physician to view all the clinical, laboratory and radiological data pertaining to all the registered primary care physician’s own patients who have ever visited a Terem Urgent Care Center. During the conference the opportunity was taken to register an additional 50 or so ROAM physicians, bringing this group to a total of almost 150 primary care physicians; their patients will undoubtedly benefit from better continuity of care as a result of this.
During one of the presentations a senior Terem physician challenged the HMOs whose representatives were in attendance to offer a reciprocal arrangement and share its computerized clinical data for mutual patient benefit. We’re waiting but not holding our breath!
Summary Submitted by: Dr. Brendon Stewart-Freedman
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