SUMMER 2024
President’s Message
SPUC celebrates its 10th year since inception, and this is a mile marker for a young organization like ours. Membership continues to grow, and SPUC offers a platform for connectivity, and for credible conversations around the practice of quality pediatric urgent care. Our 10th Annual conference was held in beautiful Norfolk, Virginia in April, and we welcomed a fascinating group of attendees for great networking opportunities, solid scientific content, and an informative tour of Institutional Host CHKD’s Pediatric Urgent Care department. Read more…
Past President’s Message
As I contemplate the upcoming half-year in the field of medicine, I find myself reflecting not just on the three years of my tenure but also on the remarkable journey of the past decade since the inception of SPUC. Read more…
Fellowship Spotlight
Fellowship Spotlight: Pediatric Acute Care Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Academic urgent care fellowships join the growing ranks of one-year fellowship programs to further train pediatricians entering this developing specialty as pediatric urgent care centers continue to proliferate. This month we highlight Children’s Hospital of Pittsburg Pediatric Urgent Care Fellowship. Read more…
The Section on Urgent Care Medicine (SOUCM) wrapped up another successful half day program at the annual American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Washington DC this past fall. Dr. Amy Pattishall (Emory University) and the education committee planned this year’s theme of ‘Keep Calm and Carry on in the Pediatric Urgent Care’. Read more…
Improving Health Equity in Antibiotic Prescribing Update
Pediatric urgent care clinicians from 30 sites in 18 states and Washington D.C. are collaborating to reduce difference in antibiotic prescribing among sociodemographic groups. The Reducing Difference in Urgent Care Encounters (REDUCE) national collaborative started in April 2023 and is led by Drs. Amanda Nedved (Pediatric Urgent Care) and Rana El Feghaly (Infectious Diseases) from Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Read more…
The Mike Moran Scholar Award is presented annually to a pediatric resident or fellow in training in the field of pediatric urgent care (MD/DO, NP, PA), with the goal of enhancing clinical research in pediatric urgent care.
The 2024 Moran recipient is Amanda Nedved MD.
Her article is called Socioeconomic Differences in the Rates of First-Line Antibiotics for Acute Respiratory Infections: Results of a National Pediatric Urgent Care Collaborative.
Read more about the Mike Moran Scholar Award here.
Institutional Host
Education Committee Volunteers Needed
We are looking for volunteers to join SPUC’s Education Committee to help us continue to produce timely, evidence-based education to our SPUC member group. This is a great opportunity for someone who has a passion for continuing medical education and wants to be more involved in the Society. Read more…
Members! FREE CME and MOC II for Bi-Weekly Webinars
These popular educational webinars feature experts in the field of pediatric urgent care and offer free CME and MOC Part II credits per calendar year upon achieving 60% or better on the post-webinar surveys.
See upcoming topics and on-demand content here.
Reading Corner
SPUC’s Reading Corner is a helpful resource to keep us updated on the most relevant and timely journal articles, new guidelines, and editorials on Pediatric medicine:
- Subgroups of children w/ Kawasaki Disease: a data driven cluster analysis (Lancet, Aug 2023)
- Short Course Therapy for Urinary Tract Infections in Children: The SCOUT Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA Pediatrics, June 2023)
- Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocarditis or Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Children Younger than 2 Years (Pediatric Emergency Care, Oct 2023)
- Non Accidental Pediatric trauma: Which Traditional Clues Predict Abuse (Pediatric Emergency Care, Sept 2023)
It is always helpful to learn from one another and discuss interesting cases, this month’s first interesting case was submitted by Joshua Prudent, MD (Division of Urgent Care, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital). Read more…
Our second case was submitted by Adenike Animasaun, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Read more…
SPUC Newsletter Editors
Welcome New Members
SPUC is pleased to announce the following new members who will add strength, expertise and vitality to our association.
SPUC Group Billing
Use SPUC’s Group Billing to streamline the application and payment processes.
Get a 10% or 15% Discount on Dues: Receive a 10% discount on member dues in the group billing program for groups of 34 members or fewer for your practice or institution. Groups of 35 or more members will receive a 15% discount.
The Society will send one comprehensive renewal notice to include all the SPUC members in your practice or institution. Contact Membership Director Greg Leasure to establish group billing for your members.
Members may post job opportunities at no charge. Non-members may post job opportunities for a fee of $500 for 90 days.
Click HERE for details.
Post, follow, comment, converse
- SPUC has migrated to a new listserv product that is more user-friendly for our members called Simplelists.
- As a SPUC member, the email address you provided for your member record has already been transferred to the new listserv forum.
- You will receive a confirmation email containing a link which you must click to confirm that you have become an active listserv subscriber.
- Log in to the Member section and navigate to the seventh bullet ‘Listserv’.
- Review your profile. Here you may also make changes to the default settings such as how often you’d like to receive postings or unsubscribe.
SPUC’s Management Company Celebrates 50th Anniversary
SPUC’s management firm, Ruggles Service Corporation, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. Ruggles, founded by Mr. John A. Hinckley in 1974, specializes in managing national and state medical associations.
Ruggles is a full-service company that handles membership, meeting planning, exhibits, marketing, communications and information technology. Read more…
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Editors: Traci Downs-Bouchard MD FAAP and Haroon Shaukat MD FAAP
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