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Plan of the Week: Apr 30 - May 6th

  • Apr 30, 2023
  • 3 min read

Updated: May 1, 2023



Plays of the Week:


Play of the week goes to Dr. Greenwald, who was selected as the NCR Faculty Teacher of the Year for 2022. Here is just one of the many glowing remarks he received, "Dr. Greenwald may be an institution, but he is one for a reason. He took every opportunity possible to teach, let me learn with patients and procedures, gave honest feedback, and pushed me to learn more every day. One of the most impactful and inspirational medical educators I've worked with."


Play of the week goes to HA Flores for obtaining a quick replacement TCB machine in clinic when there was a malfunction and to HM3 James for subsequently fixing the clinic's TCB machine!


Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 5/1

MR: Case (given by alumn Spencer Millen) & Interstitial Lung Disease Lecture, Friedman

0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C

All welcome

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Resident Processing Support Group

1200 - 1300 Canyon Conference Room

Residents Only

Tuesday, 5/2 Amy Davis' Birthday 🎉 and NCR Research & Innovation Presentations Start

MR: MMOC

0745 - 0850 Army: Canyon Conf Rm Navy: Allergy Conf Rm 4105 Air Force: America 2525 B/C

All welcome

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NCR Research and Innovation Case Report Presentations

0900 - 1240 NICOE

See below for the schedule

Wednesday, 5/3

Grand Rounds: Pediatric Obesity: Updates on Optimization of Our Clinical Approach, Jill E. Emerick, MD

0745 - 0850 Room A3, Bldg A, USUHS and Virtual

All welcome; in-person attendance in strongly encouraged from outpatient staff and residents

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NCR Research and Innovation Performance, Quality Improvement Presentations

1300 - 1500 NICOE

See below for the schedule

Thursday, 5/4

MR: Case & My Winter Vacation In Romania Lecture, Friedman

0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Friday, 5/5 Cinco de Mayo

MR: Board Review, Bumgardner

0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C

Medical Students and Residents Only

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, National Mental Health Month, National Oncology Nurses Month, and National Critical Care Nurses Month!



PAS Conference Agenda:



WR NCR Competition:


Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

8MAY: Block 12 Starts

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8-10MAY: Intern CSA

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6-12MAY: National Nurse's Week

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12MAY: Davis Journal Club

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14MAY: Mother's Day

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16-18MAY: CC OpMed Field Trip

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10JUN: Hail & Farewell

Do you have a birthday that you want added to the calendar? Email/text Britt

Announcements:

All Staff Updates


Intern Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) Volunteer

  • We are still looking for volunteers for the upcoming Intern CSA which is scheduled to take place May 8-10th.

  • For those of you who may be new or new to the Intern CSA, this event is a half-day of simulated patient encounters during which interns are directly observed by faculty and provided specific, educational feedback. We have done this for many years in conjunction with the Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC) residency program. Each faculty is assigned to observe 5-6 individual interns from Walter Reed or CNMC conduct a specific simulated clinical encounter with a standardized patient/family. You will receive guidance about your specific clinical scenario ahead of time. General pediatricians and subspecialists are all welcome.

  • Please email Dr. Cassie Carr (cassandra.carr2.civ@health.mil) if you are interested in participating, the sessions are:

    • Monday 8MAY2023 1200-1730

    • Tuesday 9MAY2023 1200-1730

    • Wednesday 10MAY2023 1200-1730


Did you attend the Partnership for Military Child Health Research Symposium?


Locked out of your CAC?




MHS Genesis Updates:

Important Announcements:

  • Looking for a pharmacy in Genesis? Check out this quick guide


Resident-Specific Updates


Don't forget to reach out to your Block 12 Rotation Supervisors regarding your schedule. View the attachment below for the most up-to-date contact information.


Intern Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) Information

  • This is an opportunity to get feedback on clinical skills in the setting of patient care simulation.The CSA is not something you have to pass to get to PGY2 year; it's just for feedback and personal improvement.

  • When: May 8-10th (you are assigned to only one of the afternoon sessions -- see below)

  • Where: Val G Hemming Simulation Center at Forest Glen

  • Who: both WR and CNMC interns!

  • Dress Code: Civilian business clothes; no military uniforms please!

  • If you are on an inpatient service, do not worry because we have you covered by a cross-covering resident. If you are on nights, you will go to your night shift following your CSA and will not break duty hours based on how you are scheduled.

  • Assignments

    • Monday, May 8th -- Hanciles, McNamara

    • Tuesday, May 9th -- Davis, Martin, Warren

    • Wednesday, May 10th -- Liggett, Sukenaga, Westbrook


PI/QI Project

  • 6JUNE: Final Presentations

    • Each group should finalize their A3 Slides in order to present a summary of Steps 1-8.

    • You will have 10 minutes for your presentation.

    • If you haven't done so already, please ensure that one of the members of your group can present on 6/6.


Transition to Practice (PGY-3s only)

  • This week's focus: TTP Session Notes & Board Reimbursement Section

    • Check out the updated details about Graduation Rehearsal and the Graduation Ceremony

    • There has been specific change to the Air Force section for board reimbursement


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:

    • 3May2023 1300-1700*

    • 30Aug2023 1300-1700*

  • Able to interact with students of the class who have their Peds rotation coming up in the subsequent 3 months. 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. Then there is a 10-minute buffer between rooms. The students will move. You stay put and will deliver the same content 5 times. There are 9-10 students per group.

Research Opportunities & Upcoming Conferences

SOCR Updates:

  • Next meeting will take place May 16th, please email Dr. Zanetti and Dr. Kolasinski if you would like to sign up for one of the time slots: 0700, 0715, 0730, 1200, 1215, 1230, and 1245.

  • Please note, this will be our last session of the academic year (and last opportunity for interns to start PGY2 with a second ARM half day). The next session will occur in July.

A brief overview of the program is below:

The Scholarly Oversite Committee of the Residency was created to track resident ARM projects and help facilitate resident scholarly activity (including research rotations). The committee is composed of faculty and fellows who have research and mentorship experience, and can offer guidance on scholarly work. Everyone, including interns will receive one ARM half-day per block regardless of SOCR involvement. PGY2/3s will need to submit a project proposal to the SOCR in order to earn a second ARM half-day in each block. Please see the attached ARM Curriculum document for more information and examples of scholarly work (but know that there are many routes to achieve a second ARM day and we are flexible!). You can also present any project ideas/aspirations at SOCR without the aim of ARM time, the goal of these presentations could be to brainstorm potential projects, fine tune ones that are nearing completion or troubleshoot ones that have hit a roadblock. Residents who opt to meet with the SOCR are expected to submit their project proposal at least one week before the quarterly meeting. Those receiving extra ARM time should update the SOCR at least semiannually either via meeting or via email to myself and Dr. K. The project proposal template is attached.


Upcoming Conferences:

6th annual Architecture of High Value Health Care: October 12-14th in Baltimore, MD

Abstract submissions are due by April 30th 2023 at 11:59pm EST. Abstract submission site

Abstract submission categories:

  • Improving equitable delivery of high value care (Health Equity Award)

  • Reducing out of pocket costs for patients (Costs of Care Affordability Award)

  • Improving appropriateness of diagnostic or screening services

  • Improving appropriateness of treatment/interventional services

  • Clinical care pathways to improve quality & reduce unwarranted practice variability

  • Optimization of patient care setting to reduce avoidable ED visits & hospitalizations

  • Improving the discharge process and other care transitions

  • Preventive medicine and evidence-based screening for early disease detection

  • Effective cost transparency for patients

  • Provider behavior modification (comparative effectiveness of interventions)

  • Information technology innovations

  • High value care educational curricula (medical school, GME, CE, CME)



AAP NCE 2023: October 20-24th in Washington, DC

Registration and hotel reservations will open for AAP members on May 2 at 10AM CDT and open for all on May 9 at 10am CDT. The conference schedule will be released on May 2.


https://aapexperience.org/

ARMY (NEW!)

  • HT/WT will be this week! More information to follow.

  • The leave process has changed!

    • 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 -> My Profile -> My Current Profile -> down arrow next to name -> Personal Details -> Contact Details

    • Submit leave

      • Continue to submit leave documents to Britt for signature

      • Once documents are reviewed and signed, follow these instructions:

        • 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 SSG Gappa

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

          • Attach all leave documents with my signatures at the bottom

          • Click submit

  • OERSFs are due May 15th

AIR FORCE

  • Training Reports:

    • Drafts are due to Dr. Zanetti by 1May.

    • Please view the original attachments in the email sent on 23FEB.

    • We have transitioned to the ALQ, which does away with bullets and changes to a narrative format without abbreviations which is much simpler.

    • For PGY2/3, take a look at your last 2 training reports (if you need a copy let me know and I can send you).

    • In general you could address the following items (if you have them) in the academic/training and professional qualities sections

      • Awards at conferences/meetings

      • Presentations at academic meetings/ conferences (need the official title)

      • PI/QI project title and your involvement

      • Journal club presentation (with title of article)

      • PT score

      • MEDRETE, humanitarian missions... with dates and what you did (also don't think we had any of these)

      • Papers, abstracts, posters, publications, etc

      • Precepting medical students (e.g. ICR at USU)

      • CPC title (for 3rd yrs)

      • Committee involvement

      • Care metrics (number of RVUs/cost of care delivered) – note when I compiled these they are cumulative for your residency, to get a reasonable estimate divide them by your PGY year so it reflects only this year.

      • The “Other Comments” section is generally a more vague statement about how you are doing – see examples in email

  • Laurie Creel is on extended leave; please forward any questions/concerns to Dr. Zanetti or Britt Bumgardner

  • PT Tests:

  • Leave

    • When submitting leave request from now through at least May: please put in the request that “Walter Reed Physician, leave is authorized”.

      • Andrews is not allowing their people to take leave without commander signoff during genesis roll out, but we are exempt. This will prevent your leave from getting denied.

    • Send a LeaveWeb request, designate Dr. Zanetti and Brittany Bumgardner as your primary and backup approver.

    • If you have a negative balance, submit requests to Col Rieker.

    • Ensure you are up to date with your Individual Medical Readiness

    • For Fellows: Submit leave to Maj Mary Hoffman and backup is AF personnel within specialty

NAVY

Navy PFA - 2023 Cycle:

  • PRT: 1 May-2 Jun 2023; late PRT is case-by-case 5-9 Jun 2023



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