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Plan of the Week: Oct 14th-Oct 20th



Schedule:


Emily will be out for boards 10/14-10/15, returning 10/16. Kevin Westbrook covering

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 10/14

No MR-Indigenous People's Day (Federal Holiday)



Tuesday, 10/15 **Block 5 Start**

MR: Case, Orient to Service (No Lecture)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 10/16

USUHS Grand Rounds: Perinatal Exposures, Access to Care, & Birth Outcomes: Reflecting on the Importance of Health-Enabling Resources

Virtual Only. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/abn-tkfw-xom


Thursday, 10/17

MR: Case, HFNC Basics-Dr. Singh

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 10/18

MR: Case, Palliative Medicine 101-Dr. Edwards

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

23 OCT: AHD and SOCR Meetings #2

16 OCT: Keegan Paulson's Birthday

 06 NOV: Chief Resident Interviews

06 NOV: Andrew Warren's Birthday

20 NOV: Hackathon!

09 NOV: Lisa Sukenaga's Birthday

06 DEC: NCC Peds Holiday Party


Continuity Clinic: - Telephone Management


Resident Announcements


One Week Until the Next AHD & PI/QI Meetings!

  • Get started on the action items listed in the PI/QI section below!


 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!



Meet our Interviewing 4th Year Medical Students!


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All Staff Updates


JGMSEB Updates/School Year Plans


Clinic Updates


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.

PI/QI Reminders


Due-Outs:

  • October 23rd (Next Academic Half Day)- Problem statements due

  • October 25th (Morning Report)- Problem Statement Presentations- Each group will share their problem statements with the group (residents and faculty).  Team leads will send me one slide containing their summary statement NLT 24OCT. 

  • December 20th- eIRB Submissions Due

  • January 13th - Countermeasure implementation start


Link to PI/QI Google Doc: Google Doc 

Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities

Clerkship Round Robin (recurring throughout the year)

  • Contact Dr. Meaghan Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu) iif 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


POET Round Robin Teaching at USU

  • 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 27AUG2025 (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 2025 AMOPS Conference (Association for Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons)



Resident Publication: Dr. Keenan Caswell


Faculty Publication: Dr. Stark, Dr. Nylund and Dr. Royall


Annual Walter Reed Hackathon-11/20/24

For those new to the Hackathon- the goal is to put together teams to work on a case report poster for the upcoming NCR competition (typically submissions are due at the end of January, 2025). Teams will meet in the evening on 11/20 to get their projects started (and eat pizza).

  • Residents: If interested, email Dr. Zanetti. If you have a case you'd like to use-let him know!

  • Faculty/Fellows: Email Dr. Zanetti if you have a case you'd like to work with residents to present. If you don't have a case but would like to serve as a mentor-let Dr. Zanetti know!


WRNMMC Healthcare Ethics Symposium

  • Thursday 24 OCT, 0800-1600, NICOE Auditorium

  • Earn up to 5.5 CME Credits!

  • Registration: Email requests and questions to: vincent.a.bain.mil@health.mil

  • Topics:

    • Organ Donations: Safety, Ethics, & Trust

    • The Trials of Labor: Embracing Informed Consent and Patient Autonomy

    • The Epidemic of Antimicrobial Resistance and Health Inequity

    • The Ethics of Fertility Preservation for the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Patient

    • Nursing and Compassion Fatigue


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


Community Pediatrics Updates:


ARMY- PGY-1 Military Advisor Update

Army ACFT will be held OCT 28-NOV 2!


Army PGY-1s: LTC Williams is back! Please direct all leave requests in IPPS-A to LTC Williams


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

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 Pediatricshttps://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 Dr. MJ Spirnak and the members of the advocacy/outreach committee for organizing a fantastic outreach event at Trunk or Treat!


Promotion of the Week: Congratulations to Dr. Patterson for his promotion to COL! We salute you, sir!



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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