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Plan of the Week: August 5th-11th



Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 8/5

Education/Reverse Education

0745-0850 Faculty-America 2525 Residents-Canyon Conference (4th Floor America)

Faculty and Residents Only

Tuesday, 8/6

MR: Case, Lecture: Anticipatory Guidance-Dr. Carr

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 8/7

MR: Case, Lecture: Transfusion Reactions-Dr. Brockman

0745-0850 Canyon Conference Room

All Welcome

Thursday, 8/8

MR: Case, Lecture: Procedural Sedation-Dr. Garren

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome


Social Event- LIVE at the Library (of Congress)

1800- Library of Congress

Residents and rotating MS4s only

Friday, 8/9

MR: Case, Lecture: Chest Pain-Dr. Hughes

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome


Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

14AUG: Sim and Skills

23AUG: Suhani Patel's Birthday

16AUG: Navy Operational Roadshow

30AUG: Kevin Westbrook's Birthday

28AUG: Academic Half Day #2


20SEP: Resident Retreat


Continuity Clinic: Sports Pre-Participation Physical I



Resident Announcements


Conferences: If you have an abstract accepted for presentation at a conference, send the submission message and date of presentation to Emily. You will then receive further guidance for registration/payment.

  • AAP registration information due to Denisha ASAP!


PALS/BLS/NRP: Upload training certificates directly to MedHub for ease of tracking (see attachment for instructions).



Meet our Rotating 4th Year Medical Students!



Clinic Updates


  • NEW Adolescent Referrals: See the attachments for details for adolescent clinic referrals and switching PCMs to the adolescent clinic.



  • Gen Peds Go-By: Created by McKenzie Bowling to help you survive summer well-visit season!




Check your Genesis clinic schedule weekly to ensure your appointments are templated correctly!


To make a change to your clinic schedule or schedule continuity patient appointments email Blue Team Administrator: Ms. Alyssa Gallishaw-Wiggins (alyssa.gallishaw-wiggins.ctr@health.mil) and cc Emily and Dr. Carr.

All Staff Updates


NEW: Oak Leaf Club of Greater Washington Social Event- 10AUG! Oak Leaf Club is aimed to help military spouses/significant others expand their local network and help answer questions about military life, residency/fellowship/medical school. See the attached flier for their upcoming social event.

RSVP by clicking here!



NEW: DEI Committee Elections- Due Monday, 05AUG- If interested in joining the DEI committee, click here to submit your name for a leadership role or as a general member!


NEW: AFCCP JAG Conference (August 6th and 7th). See agenda below.



Scutdogs 2024-2025 are here!

Hardcopies are available in the Chief Resident office or at morning report this week! PDF below.



NCC Peds Bookstore Clothing Order

All NCC Peds clothing orders can be placed through the USU book store (link below) and is open year round!



JGMSEB Updates/School Year Plans


Army School Year Plan:



Air Force HPERB:



Navy GMSEB Site Selection Goals



Rotation Contacts Updated JUL2024

  • The below attachment has the most up-to-date contact information for rotation supervisors

  • Remember to check MedHub and review updated goals & objectives for your rotations!



Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities

Clerkship Round Robin (recurring throughout the year)

  • Contact Dr. Brian Hughes (brian.hughes@usuhs.edu) if interested

  • Tentative Dates and Times: TBA

  • Designed to mimic a clinic half day, each faculty member will be in an MDL room with your particular case. The students have 30 minutes with you to go through the case/skills. The students will move. You stay put and will deliver the same content 5 times to groups of 9-10 students.

ICR Module Small Group Teaching Opportunities at USU - NEW for AY24-25!

  • Sept 17th 1300-1630: Developmental Delay ICR (Virtual only)

  • Sept 18th 1300-1630: Pediatric Growth ICR

  • Sept 23rd 1300-1630: Pediatric Issues ICR

  • Sept 24th 1030-1200: Adolescent Day - HEADSS exam debrief

  • Sept 24th 1300-1430: Pediatric Integrated Cases

  • Please use the link to sign up

  • Questions? Email Dr. Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu)

POET Round Robin Teaching at USU- NEW Dates Announced!

  • POET week Pediatrics half day is a round robin format to orient USU medical students just prior to their pediatric clerkship rotation.

  • Upcoming sessions: 18DEC2024, 30APR2025, and 27AUG202 (1300-1700 at USU)

  • All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to events

  • Please email Dr. Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu) if interseted


Faculty Development

Research & Upcoming Conferences


NEW: Annual APPD fall scholarly activity grant competition-Due August 11! Trainees can be awarded with $1,000 grants to help with their scholarly pursuits in educational innovation and research, community health and advocacy, health equity and health policy, and/or cultivation of belonging and inclusivity in the workplace and clinical learning environment. See the flier below for application details.



Agenda for the 2024 AAP Section on Uniformed Services Program (September 29th in Orlando, FL)



If you were recently published, send a copy of your paper Emily to be included in the POW!


Community Pediatrics Updates:


Teddy Bear Clinic

  • Mark your calendars! The annual Teddy Bear Clinic will be held September 14th from 0930-1130 at thr National Museum of Health and Medicine. Reach out to Kevin Westbrook if interested!

ARMY

Army PGY-1s: MAJ Saira Ahmed will be covering down as PGY-1 Advisor during the absence of LTC Williams. Please direct all leave requests in IPPS-A to MAJ Ahmed.


Army Leave

  • Current leave process

    • Please send email to Emily and Military Advisor notifying of specific leave requests

    • Please use IPPS-A for all leave/absence requests; go to https://myaccess.dmdc.osd.mil/identitymanagement/app/login and login with your CAC

    • Make sure you change your email in order to receive email notifications -> My Profile -> My Current Profile -> down arrow next to name -> Personal Details -> Contact Details

    • Submit leave

      • Submit Leave to your specific Military Advisor

      • Click My Absences in the home page

      • Complete the appropriate information, an example of chargeable leave is below:

      • Absence Type: 1-Chargeable Absence

      • Absence Name: Absence

      • Absence Reason: 01- Annual (Ordinary) Absence and complete the remainder of the page

      • Enter Start and End Dates

      • For supervisor ID: direct it to your ARMY ADVISOR

      • Complete address information with the location of where you are going

      • Click submit

    • See the powerpoint below for instructions



AIR FORCE

Leave:

  • Please complete and sign the attached checklist when submitting leave.

  • Put Dr. Zanetti as 1st Approver, and email checklist to both.

  • For the checklist - When out of training these are items that will result in leave not being approved. I will NOT be rejecting leave, but if there are things overdue we need a plan to get updated. If you have a lot of overdue items and you are doing OCONUS or leave requiring commanders signature this could cause issues, but we’ll address that if it comes up.

  • Here’s how you should answer Checklist:

1 – in JKO ensure that your annual cyberawareness, Hippa, level 1 antiterrorism training are done

2- Check your IMR and ensure all green https://asimsimr.health.mil/imr/myIMR.aspx if not use comment box to write what is not up to date and plan

3 – TR closeouts are end of the academic year 30June

4 – N/A

5 – check myfss for next PT Test date https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/usaf-fitness-management

6 – this is your birth month

7 – N/A



NAVY- Operational Road Show (16AUG)

Operational Road Show (16AUG)



Leave:

  • Dr. Ferrara will approve leave in NSIPS

  • When submitting leave, please email Dr. Ferrara and Chief Resident

  • Chief Resident will send email confirming that dates have been approved


Leave & Liberty Divisional Readiness LPO: 4th Div LPO- HM2 Mariavicka Sanchez- Responsible for DMS, which includes Pediatrics https://wrnmmc-intranet.health.mil/sites/TNT/NMSD/SitePages/4th%20Division.aspx

(hover over 4th Division tab)


2024 Training Schedule:

All Trainings are assigned to each Sailor and tracked via the Relias LMS at https://dha20433.training.reliaslearning.com/


Play of the Week:


Play of the Week: Goes to Kayla Dahlquist and Nicole Martin for their teamwork and composure during the delivery an infant with gastroschisis. Strong work!




Please reach out to Emily at emily.ferraro@nccpeds.com or emily.m.ferraro2.mil@health.mil with any questions or concerns.

 
 
 

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