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Plan of the Week: Aug 26th-Sep 1st



Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 8/26

MR: Case, Lecture: Acid-Base Disorders-Dr. Ferrara

0745-0820 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 8/27

MR: MD AAP Presentation by Loretta Hoepfner (No Case). Lecture: Orthopedic Emergencies-Dr. Lopreiato

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome. Link for MD AAP Presentation: meet.google.com/ndq-qoee-vau

Wednesday, 8/28

No Morning Report-Academic Half-Day




Academic Half-Day #2: Heme/Onc

1300-1615 Sim Center

See Agenda Below

Thursday, 8/29

MR: Resident Wellness/Virtual Staff Meeting

0745-0850 America 2525

Residents only

Friday, 8/30

No MR-Minimal Manning Day!




Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

28AUG: Academic Half Day #2 and SOCR Committee Meetings #1

23AUG: Suhani Patel's Birthday

30AUG: Minimal Manning Day

30AUG: Kevin Westbrook's Birthday

02SEP: Labor Day

03SEP: Nicole Martin's Birthday

18SEP: USUHS Grand Rounds-ADM Rachel Levine-Mandatory Resident Attendance

07SEP: Victoria Smith's Birthday

19SEP: Annual Pediatric Memorial Service, 1600 at the USO

14SEP: Rebecca Morgis' Birthday

20SEP: Resident Retreat

15SEP: Dan Rochford's Birthday

Continuity Clinic: Development 1-Normal Development



Resident Announcements


NEW Academic Half-Day #2

  • Agenda

    • 1300-1330- PI/QI (Residents and Yellow Belts Only)

    • 1330-1500- Heme-Onc Half-Day

    • 1500-1615- Housestaff Meeting (Residents only)

      • Inpatient residents are expected to return to the units for sign-out

      • Instruct medical students to arrive to the Sim Center by 1330


NEW Annual Virtual Helfer Conference (Child Abuse Society)-September 12th and 13th

  • Free attendance for residents

  • Registration due by September 10th

  • Click this link for more information and details on how to register.



Nutrition Survey: Take a few moments to complete tus survey to help assesss our ability to assist with nutrition needs of our patients. Click the following link: https://forms.gle/qRmPzZTCdc51g3RB8


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


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


  • 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


Annual WRNMMC NICU Reunion- Saturday, September 21 from 1100-1330

Location: Back of base picnic pavilions.


Book Acquisition- Interested in purchasing a book to have available in the Darnell Medical Library? Click the following URL for instructions: https://wrnmmc.libwizard.com/f/book_req.  Contact Ms. Mason-Coles with questions.


WIC Survey

Please complete the follow survey to help improve WIC access for military families. The survey is comprised of 3 parts (initial demographics, pre-video knowledge and motivation, post-video knowledge and motivation) and takes approximately 6 minutes to complete. The educational video is 6 minutes long. The links are below and are available for your review. Reach out to Dr. Sidney Zven with questions/concerns.


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 for AY24-25!

  • 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


Updated SOCR Forms: The first SOCR Meeting is 28AUG with a few spots still available! See the below attachments for initial proposals and project update forms. Reach out to Dr. Zanetti and Dr. Kolasinski with questions.




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- NEW SAPR/Suicide Prevention Training Dates

SAPR/Suicide Prevention Training Dates

  • August 30th @ 0900-1100 in Memorial Auditorium

  • October 4th @ 1300-1500 in Clark Auditorium


    Each member must register in the AFDW Course Registration system (Relias Authentication (reliaslearning.com)) for validation and tracking. You can find this class under Air Force SAPR and Suicide Prevention Training FY24 or USAF-SAPR-SP-FY24. This is where you will need to sign up for which class you will be attending. After you complete the course, you will show as compliant in myLearning (Air Force myLearning (af.mil) ) and receive a completion certificate.


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- NEW Brag Sheet/CV DUE 01SEP!

Brag Sheet/CV:

Send your brag sheet/CV to Dr. Hepps NLT 01SEP


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 Genesis James for volunteering in the NICU for a week of her elective block and providing excellent teaching and mentorship during a busy week. Way to help out the team!



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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