December 5, 2024

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Urgent Care Convention Registration Opens Monday

Let’s Evolve Together

Registration for the 2025 Urgent Care Convention – Evolve – opens Monday, December 9, 2024.

  • Who It’s For: The passionate community of Urgent Care professionals, across the U.S. and beyond.
  • What’s Unique: The Urgent Care Convention is the largest, most comprehensive Convention specifically for those working in Urgent Care.
  • Where We’ll Be: The beautiful Hilton Anatole, Dallas (our hotel and venue).
  • When: May 3-6, 2025
  • Why We Do It: To facilitate the exceptional networking and education that is only possible at this event and in this setting.
Clinicians: This year, for the first time, attending the educational conference at the Urgent Care Convention will satisfy 25 hours of CME.

United for Care Campaign: Advocate and Educate

The Efforts of UCA and UCF Align in Solving Your Biggest Challenges

Every time you support the Urgent Care Association and the Urgent Care Foundation, you support the future of Urgent Care.

What You Need:

  • To solve staffing challenges
  • Better data to benchmark against for negotiating with payers
  • To improve the recognition of the value of what you do

Make sure you’re supporting the efforts of UCA and UCF to make those things happen. We are currently working to:

Urgent Care Award Nominations Open

Nominations Close in January

Now is your chance to nominate fellow members of UCA to be recognized for their dedication and hard work while inspiring others to do the same.

Why nominate?

  • Ensure deserving fellow members are acknowledged for their work in advancing Urgent Care medicine.
  • Enhance the visibility of nominees and their organization, fostering collaborations within the Urgent Care community.
  • Bring attention to each honoree, who will be profiled on the UCA website, included in the 2025 Urgent Care Convention promotional materials, as well as in UCA’s biweekly UCAccess newsletter and a press release celebrating the winners.

Nominations are due by January 13, 2025.

Make 2025 Compensation Decisions Based on Brand New Data

Gathered from an Anonymous Survey

Key Highlights:

  • Access data from over 570 individual clinicians practicing Urgent Care medicine.
  • Make informed decisions on compensation, benefits, training and more.
  • View differences in responses from those working at independent and hospital-owned Urgent Care centers.
  • Receive data breakdowns by clinician type, gender, ethnicity/race, geography and more.
  • Bonus: Reference UCA’s 2022 Compensation results at the back of the report.

Members pay less: As a UCA member, you receive $500 off the full price of the report.

Future Events

The Q Workshop
January 14-15, 2025, Phoenix, AZ

2025 Urgent Care Convention
May 3-6, 2025, Dallas, TX

2025 Urgent Care Foundation Celebration
May 5, 2025, Dallas, TX

UCA Affiliates

UCCOP Accepted into AMA Specialty and Service Society

Milestone Achieved 

The Urgent Care College of Physicians (UCCOP) has reached a significant milestone by being accepted into the Specialty and Service Society (SSS) of the American Medical Association (AMA). This prestigious recognition underscores the vital role of Urgent Care in the broader healthcare ecosystem. Membership in the SSS allows UCCOP to advocate for policies that enhance the quality and accessibility of Urgent Care services nationwide.

Joining the SSS means Urgent Care now has a stronger voice in shaping the future of healthcare. The inclusion highlights the growing recognition of Urgent Care medicine as a specialty and provides UCCOP members with new opportunities to collaborate with other specialties. Lindsey Fish, MD, a CUCM and UCCOP board member and active participant on the Urgent Care as a Specialty Committee, will serve as UCCOP’s first representative to the SSS.

The Latest Urgent Updates

Urgent Updates are curated highlights of guidelines, reviewed by (and some directly coming from) Urgent Care clinicians. These highlights represent the actual intent of these articles and how they relate to the practice of Urgent Care medicine.

Webinars, Podcasts and Education

Solutions.Webinar: Sponsored by HealthTrackRx | Optimize Medical Decision-Making and Treatment for Outpatient Infections | CME Eligible

Webinar: Thursday, December 12 | 12:00 p.m. CT

Infectious disease complaints represent 15-20 percent of visits to practitioners or well over 100 million visits per year in the U.S. A large number of these visits are associated with a subsequent prescription, with rates of overprescribing of antibiotics at approximately 50 percent for respiratory conditions and over 25 percent for other syndromes. In this webinar, we will present common case scenarios, share targeted insights on the epidemiology of these syndromes and illustrate how multiplex PCR (polymerase chain reaction) with next-morning results can enhance diagnostic precision, treatment accuracy and patient satisfaction.

Learning objectives:

  • Gain an approach to efficiently evaluating select seasonal infectious disease complaints (patient interview, exam and medical decision-making) in the busy Urgent Care setting.
  • Understand the rationale of PCR with next-morning results as a diagnostic insight to improve medical decision-making and treatment planning.
  • Review the epidemiology of select infectious disease syndromes that peak in winter.
  • Discuss future directions in evidence evaluation on the use of multiplex PCR in the outpatient setting.

Designation Statement 

The Urgent Care Association designates this activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

Accreditation Statement 

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Urgent Care Association (UCA) and the HealthTrackRx. UCA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

When the activity is completed, CME can be claimed through this form. 

What's New with the Flu?

Recognize Patients at a High Risk of Severe Illness

Influenza remains a perennial public health threat, and Urgent Care clinicians play an essential role in treating patients who become infected with the virus. This webinar will help you recognize patients at high risk of severe illness caused by the flu and determine when to use influenza antivirals. Importantly, you will also learn several strategies that can help you avoid inappropriate use of antibiotics.Â