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Free 6-minute talk

Give your clinicians a better way to control the shift.

Practical systems your urgent care clinicians can use to improve patient flow, protect their attention, and stay composed as volume rises.

Patrick O’Malley, MD presenting Shift Control: Mastering Efficiency in Urgent Care
6 minutes
The value of 1 minute

One minute per patient can create 45 minutes of margin.

  • Margin to breathe.
  • Margin to eat.
  • Margin to chart carefully.
  • Margin to stay composed.

Simple systems. Stronger shifts.

The goal is not simply to move faster. It is to build repeatable ways of working that support sustainable performance—without sacrificing clinical judgment or the patient experience.

01

Pattern recognition

Recognize familiar presentations sooner and move with greater purpose.

02

Risk stratification

Direct attention where it matters most without losing sight of the queue.

03

Parallel processing

Keep multiple patients moving instead of handling every task sequentially.

04

Thinking three steps ahead

Anticipate what comes next and prevent avoidable bottlenecks.

A quick look inside Shift Control

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Take control of the operational demand of urgent care

Shift control in urgent care is disciplined thinking in an undisciplined environment

Shift control rests on 4 pillars

Mastering urgent care efficiency: by the numbers

Equip your entire team for a better shift.

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  • Six focused minutes
  • Practical urgent care examples
  • Actions clinicians can put into practice immediately
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Patrick O’Malley, MD

Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care Physician
EB Medicine Course Director

“Control the shift—or the shift will control you.”