Plays of the Week:
Play of the week to Dr. Bailey Howard and her husband, Marcus, and Dr. Colin McNamara and his wife Clara, for their weddings this weekend. Congratulations!!
Additional Play of the Week to Dr. Robert Crutcher, who picked up an extra Ward shift over the holiday weekend. Thank you for stepping up!
A big Thank You to everyone who covered during the outage over the weekend. Everything went smoothly thanks to everyone's prep and diligence!
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Monday, 9/11 | MR: Case, Lecture: Nephrology - Dr. Ferrara | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Tuesday, 9/12 | MR: Case, Lecture: Psychological Abuse - Dr. Deye | 0745-0850 | All Welcome |
| Annual Pediatric Memorial Service | 1600-1700 USO Warrior and Family Center | All Welcome |
Wednesday, 9/13 | SIM/Skills | 0745-0850 Sim Center - Heroes Building 4th Floor | Residents and Medical Students Only |
Thursday, 9/14 | MR: Case, Lecture: Food Allergies - Dr. McMurray | 0745 - 0850 Canyon Conference Room | All welcome |
Friday, 9/15 | NO MORNING REPORT RESIDENT RETREAT | | |
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
31AUG: PAS Abstract Submissions Open | 14SEP: Marianna Caballero and Rebecca Morgis |
13SEP: PEC #2 | 15SEP: Daniel Rochford |
15SEP: Resident Fall Retreat | 25SEP: Anna Casey |
18SEP: Block 4 Starts and Air Force Birthday! | 05OCT: Noelle Molter |
27SEP: AHD - Genetics | 18OCT: Rob Crutcher |
Continuity Clinic: Coding Boot Camp
Announcements:
Meet our Rotating 4th Year Medical Students!
All Staff Updates
Influenza Vaccine Drive
3-9OCT: Staff Only at WRNMMC
12-28OCT: mobile vaccine mission across NCR (WRNMMC is lead this year)
30OCT-15DEC: beneficiary flu drive at WRNMMC
Peds ENT
Our Peds Otolaryngologist, Dr. Jonathan Perkins, is now credentialed and will start seeing patients here at Walter Reed in the next couple weeks.
Feel free to reach out or refer patients for any of the following reasons, Dr. Perkins email is jonathan.n.perkins5.mil@health.mil.
-General pediatric ENT (recurrent ear infections, tonsil/adenoid disease, sleep disordered breathing)
-Head and neck masses (both benign branchial cleft cysts, thyroglossal duct cysts and malignant)
-Airway, voice, and aerodigestive disorders
-Pediatric hearing loss
-Cleft palate
-Craniofacial disorders
-Microtia and aural atresia
-Velopharyngeal insufficiency
-Thyroid disease and malignancy including FNA
-Vascular anomalies (infantile hemangioma, venous malformations, AVMs, etc) which I’m comfortable with both medical and surgical management of these conditions
Scutdog 2023-2024 QR Code:
Continuous Symposium: Personal Finance for the Military Physician
When: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:00 PM-1:00 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
Where: Microsoft Teams Meeting
Resident-Specific Updates
ITE Scores are available!
Please review your score sheet, with a mind on areas of focus for studying and study plan.
Speak with your Academic Advisor
Block 4 Schedules
Don't forget to reach out to your Rotation Supervisors regarding your schedule if you have any questions/concerns. The below attachment has the most up-to-date contact information.
Additionally, check MedHub and review updated goals & objectives for your upcoming rotation!
Educational/Teaching Opportunities
USU Teaching Opportunities
Clerkship Round Robin (recurring throughout the year)
ICR Module Small Group Teaching Opportunities at USU (COMING UP!)
USU Center for Health Professions Education (CHPE)
Research Opportunities & Upcoming Conferences
APA Call for Applications: https://www.academicpeds.org/programs-awards-apas-call-for-applications/
New Century Scholars Resident Mentoring Program
The NCScholars Program is a mentorship program aimed at increasing the diversity of the academic pediatric workforce.
As part of an ongoing commitment to increasing provider diversity in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP), the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (SDBP) has partnered with the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) to sponsor one pediatric resident per year in the New Century (NC) Scholars Resident Mentoring Program.
Please let Jack and Dr. Patterson know if interested, deadline to apply is Sunday, October 1st
Upcoming Conferences:
6th annual Architecture of High Value Health Care: October 12-14th in Baltimore, MD
AAP NCE 2023: October 20-24th in Washington
COMPRA: November 3rd-5th in San Antonio, Texas
PAS 2024: May 2nd-6th in Toronto, Ontario
Community Pediatrics Updates:
Child Health Advocacy in Action: A Pediatrician Rally with Policymakers
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Time:12-2 pm, final time pending permit approval
Location: U.S. Capitol Grounds, final location pending permit approval
ARMY
AIR FORCE
NAVY
Please reach out to Jack at jack.goetzman@nccpeds.com or henry.j.goetzman.mil@health.mil with any questions or concerns.