Hippo Urgent Care Bootcamp 2026

Hippo Urgent Care Bootcamp focuses on the decisions and practical skills used in a walk-in clinic: assessing acute complaints, recognizing red flags, treating common conditions and arranging emergency referral when needed. The curriculum combines clinical presentations with procedural teaching, including wound closure, splinting, nerve blocks, joint procedures and point-of-care ultrasound. ECG and X-ray interpretation sit alongside pediatric, occupational and musculoskeletal topics. It also addresses the everyday work of urgent care, from antibiotic stewardship and documentation to shared decision-making. This video-based review is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants entering urgent care or refreshing their approach to the setting.

Package scope: The curriculum is a program reference; the supplied file count and duration have not been independently verified. Publisher accounts, apps and streaming access are not included. Procedure videos do not establish competency: appropriate training, supervision, credentialing and clinical judgment remain necessary.

Learning Objectives

After completing the program, learners should be better able to:

• Evaluate common urgent care presentations using a focused differential diagnosis.
• Recognize high-risk clinical features requiring emergency evaluation.
• Manage common cardiovascular complaints encountered in urgent care.
• Evaluate neurologic complaints such as headache, dizziness and syncope.
• Approach respiratory symptoms including cough and shortness of breath.
• Evaluate abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea.
• Manage common pediatric urgent care presentations.
• Diagnose and treat common outpatient infections.
• Apply appropriate antibiotic stewardship.
• Evaluate common dermatologic conditions.
• Manage common ENT and ophthalmologic problems.
• Assess musculoskeletal injuries.
• Interpret common plain-film X-rays.
• Apply basic ECG interpretation.
• Use point-of-care ultrasound in selected urgent care situations.
• Perform common wound-care procedures.
• Apply appropriate suturing techniques.
• Perform incision and drainage.
• Apply common splints.
• Understand selected joint-reduction techniques.
• Use local anesthesia and nerve blocks appropriately.
• Recognize occupational injuries and work-related medical issues.
• Improve urgent care documentation.
• Make safer emergency department referrals.
• Improve shared decision-making with patients.

Topics

Introduction

• Introduction to Urgent Care Bootcamp.

• The Practice of Urgent Care: The Practice of Urgent Care, Antibiotic Stewardship, Efficient and Effective Charting, Safe ED Referrals, Shared Decision Making, Sports Physical, The Art of the Presentation.

Clinical Approach

• Cardiovascular: Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure.

• Common Chief Complaints: Abdominal Pain, Acute Chest Pain, Altered Mental Status, Anorectal Complaints, Dizziness, Headache, Kidney Stones, Low Back Pain, Shortness of Breath, Syncope, Testicular Pain, Vaginal Bleeding (Initial Evaluation, Urgent Causes, Common Causes), Vomiting and Diarrhea (Initial Evaluation, Common Causes).

• Common Infections: Lyme Disease & Tick Bites, Mononucleosis, Upper Respiratory Illness, Urinary Tract Infection.

• Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: Abscesses, Animal Bites, Cellulitis, Diabetic Foot Infections, Flesh Eating Bacteria, Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: Key Points.

• Sexually Transmitted Infections: Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, NGU, and Vaginitis, Genital Lesions, Sexual Assault Survivor PEP and HIV PEP.

• Dermatology: Approach to Rashes, Blisters, Contact Dermatitis, Eczema, Infestations and Bites, Minor Burns, Psoriasis, Tinea, Topical Steroids, Wound Care.

• Ears, Nose, Throat: Dental Pain, Ear Pain, Epistaxis, Seasonal Allergies.

• Eyes: Approach to Eye Emergencies, Painful Red Eye, Acute Vision Loss, Eye Trauma, Common Ocular Conditions.

• Musculoskeletal: Extremity Injuries, Shoulder (Evaluation, Management and Cases), Wrist (Evaluation and Management, Cases), Hand (Fractures, Ligament and Tendon Injuries), Knee, Ankle.

• Neurology: Neuro Exam Review, Stroke and TIA, Non-stroke Causes of Neuro Deficits, Seizures, Spinal Cord Pathology.

• Pediatrics: Fever, Urinary Tract Infections, Otitis Media, Upper Respiratory Tract Infections, Viral Exanthems, Respiratory Presentations, Croup, Bronchiolitis, and Asthma, Gastrointestinal Complaints, Newborn Presentations, Diaper Rash, and Thrush, Neurologic Presentations, Pediatric Trauma, The Inconsolable Child, BRUE, Child Abuse, Analgesia and Procedural Sedation.

• Trauma: Overview of Approach to Trauma, Head Trauma, Facial Trauma, Neck and Spine Trauma, Chest Trauma, Abdominal Injuries.

• Occupational Medicine: Occupational Medicine Tips & Tricks, Infectious Body Fluid Exposures, Overuse & Repetitive Motion Injuries, Tuberculosis Testing, Work-Related Injuries.

Procedural Fundamentals

• Anesthesia: Anatomical Nerve Blocks (Digital, Ear/Auricular, Infraorbital, Mental, Nerve Blocks for Headaches, Supraorbital, Tips and Tricks), Dental Blocks (Anterior Superior Alveolar, Gow-Gates, Middle Superior Alveolar, Posterior Superior Alveolar, Supraperiosteal), Ultrasound-guided Regional Nerve Blocks (Forearm Median, Forearm Radial, Forearm Ulnar, Infraclavicular Brachial Plexus, Interscalene Brachial Plexus, Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus, Tibial, Upper Arm Median, Upper Arm Radial, Upper Arm Ulnar).

• HEENT: Dental (Dental Fracture Repair, Dental Splinting), Nasal (Epistaxis: Introduction, Anterior Epistaxis: Initial Steps, Topical Vasoconstrictor & External Compression, Anterior Epistaxis: Nasal Anesthesia & Anterior Nasal Examination, Anterior Epistaxis: Cautery, Anterior Epistaxis: Balloon Device, Anterior Epistaxis: Nasal Tampon, Posterior Epistaxis: Foley Balloon, Posterior Epistaxis: Balloon Device).

• Ophthalmology: Introduction to Ophthalmologic Procedures, Fluorescein Exam, Foreign Body Removal: Eye, Ophthalmoscope Exam, Retracting and Everting the Eyelid, Slit Lamp Exam, Tonometry Exam, Visual Acuity Exam.

• Pediatrics: Foreign Body Removal: Nose, Foreign Body Removal: Ear, Urine Catheterization.

• Soft Tissue: Felon, Foreign Body Removal: Skin, Ingrown Nail Removal, Loop Drainage, Paronychia, Standard Incision and Drainage, Subungual Hematoma.

• Lacerations: Wounds That Shouldn’t Be Closed, Wound Prep, Skin Adhesive Glue, Skin Tape, Staples, Suturing Techniques (General Suturing Techniques / Instrument Tie, Corner Stitch, Deep Dermal, Dog Ear Correction, Elliptical Cut with Undermining, Inverse Figure 8 Stitch, Horizontal Mattress, Nail Bed Laceration, Scalp Lacs: Suture, Staple, & Hair Apposition, Simple Interrupted, Staple Removal, Suture Removal, Vertical Mattress).

• Ultrasound: Ultrasound Transducer Basics, Biliary (Gallbladder Ultrasound, Abnormal Findings), Cardiac (Cardiac Ultrasound PS, SC, SN, Abnormal Findings), Kidney and Bladder (Bladder Ultrasound volume, Left Kidney, Right Kidney, Renal: Abnormal Findings), Lung (Ultrasound, Abnormal Findings), Vascular (Abdominal Aorta Ultrasound female, IVC Ultrasound), FAST (RUQ Exam + Basic Techniques, Right Upper Quadrant, Left Upper Quadrant, Male Pelvis, Female Pelvis, Abnormal Findings).

• Musculoskeletal: Joint Arthrocentesis (Arthrocentesis Tips & Tricks, Ankle, Elbow, Knee, Shoulder, Wrist), Joint Reduction (Ankle, Digit, Elbow, Hip, Knee, Patellar, Radial Head Subluxation “Nursemaid’s”, Shoulder).

• Ring Removal: String-Wrap Technique, String-Wrap Technique: Oxygen Mask Strap, Ring Cutter: Manual Cutting Disk, Ring Cutter: Electric/Dremel, Tungsten: Locking Pliers Technique.

• Splinting: Basic Wetting Techniques, Ankle Wraps and Semirigid Orthosis, Finger Splints, Knee Immobilizer / Medial-Lateral Strut, Long Arm Posterior, Long Leg Posterior, Short Leg Posterior, Splinting Tips and Tricks, Sugar-Tong Forearm, Sugar-Tong Humerus / Double Sugar-Tong, Thumb Spica, Ulnar Gutter, U-Splint/Stirrup, Volar.

• X-ray Interpretation: General Radiographic Principles, Shoulder, Elbow, Forearm, Hand, Wrist, Cervical Spine, Lumbosacral and Thoracic Spine, Humerus, Femur and Hip, Pelvis, Knee, Tibia and Fibula, Ankle, Foot.

• Pulmonary: Chest X-Ray Interpretation Part 1, Chest X-Ray Interpretation Part 2.

• ECG Interpretation: Basic ECG Interpretation, Common STEMI Patterns, Subtle-Ts, STEMI Equivalents, STEMI Mimics (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), Pulmonary Embolism, Syncope.

• Cases: Case 1, Case 2, Case 3, Case 4.