Plays of the Week:
Play of the week goes to Dr. Sharen Wilson, who attended the AAP Leadership Conference this past week in Chicago!
Play of the week also goes to Dr. Maggie Hasler, who graciously stayed late during an IFH PICU shift to cover for another resident.
Another Play of the Week to Dr. Samantha Hanciles, for being selected as the DEI Cultural Awareness Champion.
Finally, Play of the Week to Ms. Marie Miranda who was an all-star during the Mock TJC this week for Peds!
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Monday, 8/15 Colin McNamara's Birthday 🎉 | MR: Case & NICU GI Emergencies, Hwang | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Tuesday, 8/16 | MR: Sidney Zven's CPC | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Wednesday, 8/17 Emily Ferraro's Birthday 🎉 | MR: Case & GI Emergencies, Royall | 0745 - 0850 Canyon Conf Rm | All welcome |
| Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Fellowship Program Zoom Info Session | 1900 EST Zoom link Meeting ID: 563 658 3479 Passcode: abcde | Medical students, residents, and current staff are all welcome (see below for more information) |
Thursday, 8/18 | MR: DEI Session on Minority Stress Model and Gender Affirming Care, Larson | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
| Candidate Recruitment Day | 0745 - 0850 Canyon Conf Rm | Invited Medical Students Only |
| Medical Student/Resident Mixer | 1800-2000 Hip Flask | Medical Students and Residents Only; see below to RSVP |
Friday, 8/19 GME Administrative Professionals Day 🥳 | MR: Board Review | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | Medical Students and Resident Only |
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
22AUG: Block 3 | 23AUG: Suhani Patel's Birthday |
24AUG: Academic Half-Day | 30AUG: Kevin Westbrook's Birthday |
5SEP: Labor Day | 2SEP: Theresa Kiefer's Birthday |
16SEP: Resident Fall Retreat | 3SEP: Nicole Martin's Birthday |
18SEP: Air Force Birthday ✈️ | 14SEP: Marianna Caballero's Birthday |
Announcements:
Meet our Rotating Medical Students!
All Staff Updates
Code Yellow Exercise: Week of August 15th
During the exercise, please immediately return to your work area for muster, then carry out the Plan of the Day unless movement restrictions have been directed
Individuals will not be allowed to exit the buildings during the exercise
UpToDate Access & New Library Resources
The Navy's UpToDate contract has been funded for another year!
The Darnall Medical Library has new resources for everyone to try:
Try DynaMed / DynaMed Decisions / Isabel (renamed DDx) / Micromedex
Go to library’s Peds Portal and select, “Access DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson Expanded Features”
Interested in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine?
Do you want to learn more about sports medicine, concussions, sexually transmitted infections, contraception and menstrual disorders, mental health disorders, sexual minority and transgender care, substance abuse, eating disorders, and primary care for adolescents and young adults?
Then our Adolescent Medicine fellowship is for you!
Located at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, we are one of the largest adolescent medicine fellowships in the country (the only one in the MHS) and accept applicants from Peds, Family Medicine, and Internal Medicine. Please see the attached picture to learn more about our fellowship.
We will be hosting a Zoom call on Wednesday 17 August at 1800 CST. If you are interested in attending this Zoom session or learning more about our fellowship, please email Dr. Saira Ahmed at saira.ahmed.mil@mail.mil (2022 Adolescent Med Fellowship graduate, new Adolescent Med staff at WRNMMC). Medical students, residents, and current staff are all welcome!
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5636583479
Meeting ID: 563 658 3479
Passcode: abcde
Transition to NEW Email Domain: @mail.mil to @health.mil will occur no later than 30SEP
Back-up current mailbox and save desired files from MS Teams to local share drives and desktops
Resident-Specific Updates
Please reach out to your Block 3 rotation supervisors and let them know your schedule (Continuity Clinics, ARM days, leave, etc.)
Please review the following go-by that was created by hospital-level nursing leadership to clarify some frequent medication order issues:
AAP SOPT Leadership Positions Available
SOPT Executive Committee and Leadership Council. Many of the open positions offer residents and fellowship trainees funding for travel to the AAP National Conference and the ability to gain important leadership skills over their 1-year term. The deadline is August 15th to apply.
PI/QI: Next Session is August 23rd
Our knowledge burst will be on eIRB submissions
A3 Steps 3-5 should be complete
Please assign your team lead and notify your stakeholders!
CATCH Grant Program District Resident Liaison Application (PGY-1 and PGY-2s Only)
Community Access to Child Health, CATCH supports pediatricians in their efforts to collaborate within their communities to advance the health of all children. If you are unfamiliar with the program, you can take a look at their website (https://www.aap.org/CATCH).
Reach out to Alex Mauro if you have any questions or are interested
The application deadline is August 30th. Take a look at the attachment for more info! The application can be found here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2022CATCHDRL
Educational/Teaching Opportunities
USU Teaching Opportunities
Clerkship Round Robin
Contact Dr. Sebastian Lara (sebastian.lara@usuhs.edu) if interested
Tentative Dates and Times:
31Aug2022 1300-1700
5Jan2023 1300-1700*
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.
Reproduction and Endocrinology Module: September 22, 26, 29th
Adolescent Psychosocial Interview: September 27th 1000-1230
Contact Dr. John Berry (john.berry@usuhs.edu) if interested
The medical students get two lectures that morning (intro to HEADSSS and Adolescent-Specific care in the military system). The students then see a modeled HEADSSS exam and then break into virtual groups (2 per room) and take turns role-playing as the patient and provider in 2 different adolescent scenarios. The students then come back together to discuss lessons learned from performing the HEADSSS exam. Teaching in this session would entail facilitating the debrief small groups of 12-15 students.
Bushmaster: October 10th and 19th
Contact Dr. Sara Bibbens (sara.bibbens@usuhs.edu) if interested
Field exercise in Fort Indian Town Gap, Pennsylvania. The resident would have the option to get funded to drive up the night before and stay overnight in the barracks or could drive up early morning on the same day. MREs provided.
Introduction to Clinical Reasoning (ICR) “Neonatal Transitions”: Date TBD - usually 3rd week in January
Contact Dr. Brian Hughes (brian.hughes@usuhs.edu) if interested
3 consecutive 60-minute ICR sessions with approximately 7-10 students in each group focused on discussing common clinical presentations in the neonate transitioning from the intrauterine to extrauterine environments.
Humanities Week
Contact Dr. Sebastian Lara (sebastian.lara@usuhs.edu) if interested
Co-facilitate a variety of multi-disciplinary health humanities activities. Past sessions include painting, comics design, dance, art of observation with National Gallery of Art, improv in medicine, narrative writing.
Dates: 6MAR (0800-1300), 8MAR (0800-1300), 10MAR(0800-1300)
Research Opportunities & Upcoming Conferences
Next SOCR meeting: October 18th
AMSUS Annual Meeting 2023: February 13-16th at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center, National Harbor, MD
Poster Presentations
AMSUS is currently accepting poster abstracts at https://www.amsus.org/2023-poster-submission-information/
The first 100 approved submissions will be invited to present at the in-person Poster Session on Wednesday 15 February. Space is limited; early submissions have the greatest chance of acceptance. The submissions portal will be disabled as soon as the first 100 submissions have been approved—long before the 15 October hard deadline.
REMINDER: Before submitting your abstract to AMSUS, be sure to get USU presentation approval through ServiceNow
Awards
AMSUS honors the contributions of outstanding federal healthcare professionals each year through the Awards Program. Fifteen awards are available. The AMSUS Awards portal is now open! Visit https://www.amsus.org/professional-development/amsus-awards-program/ to learn more about the AMSUS Awards and begin the nomination process. The Awards portal closes on October 15.
Registration
Registration rates for the 2023 AMSUS Annual Meeting will be posted on the AMSUS website by mid-August. The registration portal will open in mid-September.
If you have any questions, please contact the USU POC for AMSUS, Ms. Tiffany Helling tiffany.helling.ctr@usuhs.edu
Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Conference 2023: April 27-May 1st in Washington, DC
Open call for scholarly sessions, workshops, SIGs, ancillary events, and volunteers
Upcoming Conferences:
APPD Mid-Atlantic Regional Fall Meeting (Virtual): September 23rd, 2022
Scholarship Opportunity: residents can win a $1000 grant for projects on DEI, community health, advocacy, education, etc. See below for more details, grant proposals are due by Friday, July 29th.
Spotlights on Innovations: do you have an innovative idea within DEI, community health, or virtual recruitment and want to present at the conference? Contact Britt Bumgardner if interested. Submissions are due by Friday, August 26th.
Conference on Military Perinatal Research (COMPRA): November 4-6, 2022
The 41st Conference on Military Perinatal Research (COMPRA) will be held from November 4-6, 2022 in San Antonio, with the theme of "Periviability: Ethics and Outcomes." The call for abstracts for COMPRA began on June 8, 2022, and the deadline for submission is Friday, August 5, 2022. Applicants will be notified of selection for attendance and presentation of abstracts by August 19, 2022. See below for submission guidelines and further details.
ARMY
The Army is transitioning to a new Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A); please back up your IPERMS using the following steps below to ensure that nothing is lost with the new transition:
1) Go to this site and log on with your CAC: https://iperms.hrc.army.mil
2) Towards the top, there is a ribbon with announcements, documents, reviews... Click the documents tab.
3) In the bottom left, there is a Download button as shown in the picture. Click it and it will download a zip file to your computer.
All Soldiers and DA Civilians require Transgender & Retaliation Training NLT 21 September 2022: view below for more information on how to sign-up
PGY3s: please reach out to COL Craig with any special circumstances, interests, and intentions for after graduation!
Planning on going on leave? You can find the most updated leave forms here: https://www.nccpeds.com/army-leave
AIR FORCE
PT Tests:
To schedule a test at Walter Reed, please contact SSgt Talia Johnson (talia.l.johnson2.mil@mail.mil). Please allow a few business days for a response.
If there is no availability at WRNMMC, you must test at Andrews AFB. Contact Ms. Laurie Creel (laurie.a.creel.civ@mail.mil)
Leave
Complete an updated Travel Assessment for any leave requests and send to Brittany Bumgardner or Dr. Zanetti for signature.
Upload the signed TRA to your LeaveWeb request, and designate Brittany Bumgardner and Dr. Zanetti 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: Fill out TRA, send to fellowship director/specialty chief for signing, submit leave to Maj Mary Hoffman and backup is AF personnel within specialty
NAVY
Residents: designate Brittany Bumgardner (under "Civilian Approvers", UIC 00168) as your watchbill coordinator in NSIPS.
PFA dates:
8 Aug - 2 Sep 2022: All-Hands PRT
6-9 Sep 2022: Late/Make-Up PRT