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Plan of the Week: August 21 - 27

  • Aug 21, 2022
  • 3 min read

Plays of the Week:


Play of the week goes to Dr. Noelle Molter, who recently returned from a 3-week trip in the Philippines as a part of the USNS Mercy Pacific Partnership.


Play of the week also goes to Drs. Jack Goetzman, Sidney Zven, Amy Davis, and Sub-I Mackenzie Raber, who did an excellent job jumping in and helped make everything go smoothly for the birth of a critical infant on the NICU.


Play of the week goes to Drs. Brian Graziose and Sidney Zven for their abstract acceptances, "WIC Eligibility and Enrollment in the National Capital Region" and "Use of an Infant Hip Model to Assess Skills and Recognition of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip," to the COMPRA in November!

Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 8/22 Block 3 Starts!

MR: Case & Orient to Service

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Tuesday, 8/23 Suhani Patel's Birthday 🎉

MR: Case & Disorders of Energy Sources Part 1, Schacht

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Wednesday, 8/24

No Morning Report

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Academic Half-Day: PHO **3rd Deck Team to report to PICU for SIM at 1300**

1300 - 1600

Heroes Bldg Room 3007/3008

Medical Students and Residents Only

Thursday, 8/25

MR: PI/QI & eIRB Knowledge Burst

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

Staff and Residents Only

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Candidate Recruitment Day

0745 - 0850

Canyon Conf Rm

Invited Medical Students Only

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Medical Student/Resident Mixer

1800-2000 Bark Social

Medical Students and Residents Only; see below to RSVP

Friday, 8/26

MR: Board Review

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

Medical Students and Resident Only


Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

5SEP: Labor Day

​30AUG: Kevin Westbrook's Birthday

16SEP: Resident Fall Retreat

2SEP: Theresa Kiefer's Birthday

18SEP: Air Force Birthday ✈️

3SEP: Nicole Martin's Birthday

​19SEP: Broughton CPC

14SEP: Marianna Caballero's Birthday

​22SEP: M&M

​20SEP: Bailey Howard's Birthday

Announcements:


Meet our Rotating Medical Students!

All Staff Updates


SLP Referrals

When placing an SLP referral for WRNMMC SLP Clinical Swallowing Evaluation (CSE), please also place a RAD order. If the patient needs an MBS, it streamlines the process to ensure that the patient can get scheduled swiftly. In addition, if you want to just let the families know when you do your spiel, please ask them to bring foods that are challenging or problem foods/drinks and ones that the child readily accepts." Stop by the Chief office for a badge buddy with the IDDSI guidelines if you don't already have one!


Please view the info from DoD on Dobbs Decision and the following comprehensive list of walk-in Contraception Services available at WRNMMC for our patients.


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 the library’s Peds Portal and select “Access DynaMed and Micromedex with Watson Expanded Features.”


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


PGY2/3s: calling for assistance! As you are aware, MHS faculty and trainees greatly value and depend upon Point of Care References (POCR) to make clinical decisions and assist in education. There are two main ones currently available in the MHS: DynaMed (DM) and UpToDate (UTD). GME has been asked to assist in defining the requirements. We'd like to see if the theme of "nuanced expert recommendations for atypical presentations or management beyond specialty society guidelines, algorithms, and/or published studies" is indeed what is important to you. To that end, we'd like a few examples from you where you found an answer to a clinical question in one POCR but not the other. Note that measurement here is whether or not the clinical question is answered in this circumstance. For the examples you provide us, the patient encounter and clinical question must be from August 2022.

  • Formatting: 1) BRIEF summary--less than a paragraph, 2) Clinical question, 3) Search in one POCR with link that answers the question, 4) Search in the other POCR with link that does not.

  • Please email the examples to Britt Bumgardner


PI/QI: Next Session is on August 25th

  • 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 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


Upcoming Conferences:

APPD Mid-Atlantic Regional Fall Meeting (Virtual): September 23rd, 2022

  • 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."


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

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:

  • 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


 
 
 

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