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 | | |
| 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 |
| Candidate Recruitment Day | 0745 - 0850 Canyon Conf Rm | Invited Medical Students Only |
| 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."