Hippoed Urgent Care Bootcamp 2026 (Videos + Slides)

Hippoed Urgent Care Bootcamp 2026 (Videos + Slides) supports review of acute presentations, procedures, ECGs, X-rays and point-of-care ultrasound.

This MedicalAmboss listing is for separately delivered study materials. The publisher curriculum describes the original course, not a verified inventory of the supplied files. CME points and certificates are not included.

Course Details

• Course: Urgent Care Bootcamp
• Provider: Hippo Education
• Store-Listed Edition: 2026; a distinct publisher revision has not been independently established.
• Product: Hippoed Urgent Care Bootcamp 2026
• MedicalAmboss Format: Videos + Slides
• Publisher Course Scope: 200+ videos; this is not a verified delivered-file count.
• Publisher Course Duration: 50+ hours; the duration of the delivered files has not been independently verified.
• Primary Specialty: Urgent Care Medicine
• Related Specialties: Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Primary Care
• Primary Setting: Urgent Care
• Educational Focus: Clinical Decision-Making, Diagnostics, Procedures, Imaging, ECGs, and Acute Care
• Video Length: Primarily Short 10–20 Minute Segments
• Teaching Style: Conversational, Clinician-Led Education
• Partner Organizations: Urgent Care Association and College of Urgent Care Medicine
• Primary Audience: Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, and Other Urgent Care Clinicians

Hippo states that this curriculum was created specifically for urgent care rather than being adapted from a generic emergency or primary care program.

Who Was the Original Program Designed For?

The program is especially relevant for:

• Urgent Care Physicians
• Emergency Medicine Physicians
• Family Medicine Physicians
• Primary Care Physicians
• Physician Assistants
• Nurse Practitioners
• Advanced Practice Providers
• Clinicians entering urgent care practice
• Clinicians transitioning from another specialty
• Experienced urgent care clinicians seeking a comprehensive refresher
• Medical directors developing urgent care clinical education programs

The strongest clinical audience remains:

Urgent Care + Emergency Medicine + Primary Care

Short Lectures. Big Impact.

Hippo designed the course around focused educational segments rather than long traditional lectures.

The program covers urgent care through:

• Clinical pearls
• Common diagnostic pitfalls
• Case-based reasoning
• Diagnostic approaches
• Procedural demonstrations
• Imaging interpretation
• ECG interpretation
• Acute treatment decisions
• Patient disposition

The official course currently provides more than 200 videos, while individual learning segments are generally designed to remain concise and clinically focused.

Conversational Clinical Education

The Bootcamp uses a conversational teaching style.

Instead of extended monologues, expert clinicians discuss:

• What actually matters in urgent care
• Common mistakes
• Difficult decisions
• Clinical uncertainty
• When testing is needed
• When treatment is unnecessary
• When patients require emergency referral
• How procedures are performed

This style is intended to make continuing medical education more practical and engaging.

Flexible On-Demand Learning

The original Hippo program is modular and on-demand, allowing learners to pause, replay, and revisit individual topics.

This structure is especially suited to urgent care clinicians who may want to review a particular diagnosis, procedure, ECG pattern, or imaging technique before returning to clinical practice.

The MedicalAmboss edition provides the educational material in Videos + Slides format for self-paced review.

The Practice of Urgent Care

The curriculum begins with practical topics specific to working in urgent care rather than focusing exclusively on diseases.

Confirmed areas include:

• Urgent Care Practice
• Antibiotic Stewardship
• Efficient Clinical Documentation
• Safe Emergency Department Referrals
• Shared Decision-Making
• Sports Physicals
• Effective Patient Presentation

These topics emphasize that effective urgent care requires both medical knowledge and efficient clinical workflow.

Antibiotic Stewardship

Antibiotic prescribing is a frequent challenge in urgent care.

The curriculum addresses antibiotic stewardship, supporting more appropriate use of antimicrobial therapy while reducing unnecessary treatment.

The practical decision pathway includes:

Clinical Presentation → Likelihood of Infection → Need for Testing → Antibiotic Decision → Follow-Up

Safe Emergency Department Referrals

A critical urgent care skill is recognizing when a patient exceeds the resources or scope of the outpatient setting.

The curriculum addresses safe ED referral, helping clinicians consider:

• Clinical instability
• Diagnostic uncertainty
• Required testing
• Higher-level monitoring
• Procedural needs
• Specialist evaluation

The goal is appropriate escalation rather than either unnecessary transfer or delayed emergency care.

Shared Decision-Making

Urgent care frequently involves situations where more than one reasonable diagnostic or treatment pathway may exist.

The course incorporates shared decision-making into clinical care, particularly where patient preferences, uncertainty, testing, and follow-up must be balanced.

Common Urgent Care Chief Complaints

The official curriculum contains dedicated clinical approaches to many of the most common symptoms encountered in urgent care.

These include:

• 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
• Vaginitis
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea

The emphasis is on moving efficiently from presenting complaint toward appropriate testing, treatment, and disposition.

Abdominal Pain

Abdominal pain requires urgent care clinicians to distinguish common outpatient conditions from potentially serious surgical or medical pathology.

A structured approach includes:

History → Examination → Risk Assessment → Testing → Treatment → Disposition

Acute Chest Pain

Chest pain is another high-risk presentation.

The curriculum connects clinical assessment with:

• ECG interpretation
• Risk recognition
• Differential diagnosis
• Emergency referral decisions

This is particularly important because urgent care clinicians must rapidly identify presentations that require emergency cardiovascular evaluation.

Dizziness & Syncope

Both dizziness and syncope receive dedicated attention.

These symptoms may arise from benign conditions but can also reflect cardiovascular or neurologic disease.

The educational emphasis is therefore on:

Pattern Recognition → Red Flags → Focused Examination → Testing → Disposition

Headache

Headache is another frequently encountered complaint requiring careful differentiation between common benign causes and potentially serious neurologic disease.

The program incorporates both clinical evaluation and procedural options, including headache-related nerve blocks within the procedural curriculum.

Shortness of Breath

The curriculum addresses acute dyspnea within a broad urgent care framework that connects history, examination, imaging, cardiovascular assessment, and pulmonary disease.

Genitourinary Complaints

Relevant confirmed topics include:

• Kidney stones
• Testicular pain
• Urinary tract infection
• Vaginal bleeding
• Vaginitis
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Sexually transmitted infections

These topics represent common presentations requiring efficient outpatient evaluation and appropriate referral when higher-risk conditions are suspected.

Common Infections

Infectious disease is a major component of urgent care practice.

The official curriculum includes:

• Lyme disease and tick bites
• Infectious mononucleosis
• Upper respiratory infections
• Urinary tract infections
• Skin and soft-tissue infections

The course also incorporates antibiotic stewardship to support evidence-based treatment decisions.

Skin & Soft-Tissue Infections

Confirmed topics include:

• Abscesses
• Animal bites
• Cellulitis
• Diabetic foot infections
• Severe soft-tissue infections

Management may involve:

• Diagnosis
• Antibiotic selection
• Incision and drainage
• Wound care
• Recognition of serious disease
• Emergency referral

Sexually Transmitted Infections

The curriculum includes education involving:

• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Gonorrhea
• Chlamydia
• Nongonococcal urethritis
• Vaginitis
• Genital lesions
• HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
• Sexual-assault-related post-exposure care

These areas connect diagnosis, treatment, preventive care, and appropriate follow-up.

Dermatology

Urgent care clinicians frequently evaluate acute skin complaints.

Confirmed areas include:

• General approach to rashes
• Blisters
• Contact dermatitis
• Eczema
• Infestations
• Insect bites
• Minor burns
• Psoriasis
• Tinea
• Topical steroids
• Wound care

The practical framework is:

Morphology → Distribution → History → Differential → Treatment

Ear, Nose & Throat

The course includes common ENT presentations such as:

• Dental pain
• Ear pain
• Epistaxis
• Seasonal allergies

It also provides extensive procedural instruction for dental problems and nosebleeds.

Eye Emergencies

Ophthalmic complaints receive both diagnostic and procedural attention.

Topics include:

• Approach to eye emergencies
• Painful red eye
• Acute vision loss
• Eye trauma
• Common ocular conditions

These presentations require clinicians to rapidly distinguish conditions appropriate for outpatient treatment from vision-threatening emergencies.

Musculoskeletal Medicine

Musculoskeletal injuries represent a major proportion of urgent care practice.

The clinical curriculum addresses:

• Extremity injuries
• Shoulder evaluation
• Shoulder management
• Wrist injuries
• Hand fractures
• Ligament injuries
• Tendon injuries
• Knee problems
• Ankle problems

These diagnostic sessions are supplemented by extensive procedure and X-ray interpretation modules.

Neurology

The neurologic curriculum includes:

• Neurologic examination review
• Stroke and TIA
• Non-stroke neurologic deficits
• Seizures
• Spinal cord pathology

The emphasis is on identifying neurologic presentations that require emergency escalation.

Pediatrics in Urgent Care

The general Urgent Care Bootcamp also includes pediatric medicine.

Confirmed topics include:

• Pediatric fever
• Urinary tract infections
• Otitis media
• Upper respiratory infections
• Viral exanthems
• Respiratory presentations
• Croup
• Bronchiolitis
• Asthma
• Gastrointestinal complaints
• Newborn presentations
• Diaper rash
• Thrush
• Neurologic presentations
• Pediatric trauma
• Inconsolable child
• BRUE
• Child abuse
• Analgesia and procedural sedation

Hippo separately offers a more extensive pediatric-specific Urgent Care Peds Bootcamp for clinicians wanting a deeper pediatric curriculum.

Trauma

The general urgent care trauma curriculum includes:

• Approach to trauma
• Head trauma
• Facial trauma
• Neck and spinal trauma
• Chest trauma
• Abdominal injuries

The primary skill is determining:

Can This Be Managed Here? → Does the Patient Need Imaging? → Does the Patient Need ED Transfer?

Occupational Medicine

Urgent care frequently overlaps with workplace medicine.

Confirmed topics include:

• Occupational medicine principles
• Body-fluid exposures
• Repetitive-motion injuries
• Tuberculosis testing
• Work-related injuries

This broadens the Bootcamp beyond acute illness into common employer-based urgent care services.

Procedural Fundamentals

Procedural instruction is one of the strongest components of the course.

Hippo describes the program as containing over 200 step-by-step diagnostic and procedural videos, covering practical skills clinicians may need during urgent care shifts.

The procedural curriculum includes major areas such as:

• Local anesthesia
• Nerve blocks
• Dental procedures
• Epistaxis management
• Ophthalmologic procedures
• Pediatric foreign-body removal
• Soft-tissue procedures
• Laceration repair
• Point-of-care ultrasound
• Arthrocentesis
• Joint reduction
• Ring removal
• Splinting
• X-ray interpretation
• ECG interpretation

Local Anesthesia & Nerve Blocks

The course demonstrates multiple nerve-block techniques involving areas such as:

• Digits
• Ear
• Face
• Headache treatment
• Dental anesthesia
• Upper extremity
• Lower extremity

It also includes ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia techniques.

Dental Procedures

Procedural education includes:

• Dental fracture repair
• Dental splinting
• Dental anesthesia techniques

These skills are relevant because dental emergencies commonly present to urgent care when immediate dental services are unavailable.

Epistaxis Management

The procedural curriculum provides step-by-step approaches to nosebleeds, including:

• Initial management
• External compression
• Topical vasoconstrictors
• Nasal anesthesia
• Examination
• Cautery
• Balloon devices
• Nasal packing
• Posterior epistaxis techniques

Ophthalmologic Procedures

Confirmed procedure demonstrations include:

• Fluorescein examination
• Ocular foreign-body removal
• Ophthalmoscopy
• Eyelid retraction and eversion
• Slit-lamp examination
• Tonometry
• Visual acuity testing

These practical skills complement the clinical eye-emergency curriculum.

Soft-Tissue Procedures

The course includes procedures involving:

• Felon
• Skin foreign bodies
• Ingrown nails
• Loop drainage
• Paronychia
• Incision and drainage
• Subungual hematoma

This is particularly relevant to urgent care because many soft-tissue problems can be treated definitively at the point of care.

Laceration & Wound Repair

The curriculum provides extensive wound-closure training.

Techniques include:

• Wound preparation
• Tissue adhesive
• Skin tape
• Staples
• Basic suturing
• Deep dermal suturing
• Mattress techniques
• Scalp repair
• Nail-bed laceration repair
• Suture and staple removal

The program also addresses situations where wounds should not be closed.

Point-of-Care Ultrasound

The Bootcamp includes practical POCUS training across several systems.

Major areas include:

Biliary

• Gallbladder assessment

Cardiac

• Multiple cardiac ultrasound views

Renal & Bladder

• Bladder volume
• Kidney imaging
• Abnormal renal findings

Lung

• Lung ultrasound

Vascular & Trauma

• Abdominal aorta
• IVC
• FAST examination
• Right and left upper quadrant
• Pelvic views

These modules help clinicians integrate bedside imaging into urgent care decision-making.

Arthrocentesis

Joint aspiration training includes practical approaches to several joints, such as:

• Ankle
• Elbow
• Knee
• Shoulder
• Wrist

The course also provides general arthrocentesis tips and techniques.

Joint Reduction

Confirmed reduction training includes:

• Ankle
• Digit
• Elbow
• Hip
• Knee
• Patella
• Radial head subluxation
• Shoulder

These skills can be highly relevant to clinicians managing acute orthopedic injuries.

Ring Removal

The procedural curriculum also includes multiple ring-removal techniques, including:

• String-wrap methods
• Manual cutting devices
• Electric cutting techniques
• Techniques for difficult metals

Splinting

A substantial portion of the program is dedicated to splinting.

Confirmed splinting approaches include:

• Ankle support
• Finger splints
• Knee immobilization
• Long-arm splints
• Long-leg splints
• Short-leg posterior splints
• Sugar-tong splints
• Thumb spica
• Ulnar gutter
• Stirrup
• Volar splints

This makes the course particularly useful for musculoskeletal urgent care.

X-Ray Interpretation

Diagnostic imaging instruction includes general radiographic principles and interpretation of commonly encountered studies.

Areas include:

• Shoulder
• Elbow
• Forearm
• Hand
• Wrist
• Cervical spine
• Thoracic and lumbar spine
• Humerus
• Femur
• Hip
• Pelvis
• Knee
• Tibia and fibula
• Ankle
• Foot
• Chest X-rays

This connects acute clinical evaluation with point-of-care radiographic decision-making.

ECG Interpretation

The official curriculum contains a dedicated ECG section covering:

• Basic ECG interpretation
• Common STEMI patterns
• Subtle ischemic findings
• STEMI equivalents
• STEMI mimics
• Pulmonary embolism
• Syncope
• Case-based interpretation

The goal is practical ECG recognition in urgent care rather than abstract electrocardiography alone.

Faculty

Hippo Education lists a broad multidisciplinary faculty with backgrounds in urgent care, emergency medicine, radiology, dermatology, pediatrics, sports medicine, and advanced practice. Faculty include:

• Matthieu DeClerck, MD
• Paul Jhun, MD
• Aaron Bright, MD
• Matt DeLaney, MD
• Amal Mattu, MD
• Mike Stone, MD
• Andy Barnett, MD
• Brittney DeClerck, MD
• Peter Malek, MD
• Emily Rose, MD
• Rob Orman, MD
• Greg Moran, MD
• Sarah Warren, PA-C
• Jaime Hope, MD
• Tarlan Hedayati, MD
• John Mabee, PhD, PA-C
• Tracy Zaslow, MD
• Joshua Russell, MD
• Arti M. Patel, MD
• Roger Wu, MD
• Vicky Pittman, PA-C, MPAP
• Ross Cohen, DO
• Katie Iverson, PA-C, MPAS

Hippo’s faculty roster includes clinicians affiliated with academic emergency medicine programs, urgent care systems, radiology, pediatrics, and medical education.

Purchase Scope and Publisher Reference

This purchase does not include CME points or a certificate. Hippo account access, app access, assessments, QBank access, progress tracking, pass guarantees and provider-hosted resources must not be inferred from this Videos + Slides listing.

Compare the official Hippo course overview and publisher curriculum for the original educational scope. The curriculum filename references 2025; it does not independently establish a distinct 2026 revision or the completeness of this store package.