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Plan of the Week: Dec 16th-Dec 22nd



Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 12/16

Full PI/QI Working Session-No Case or Lecture

0745-0850 America 2525

Pediatric Residents and Yellow Belt Mentors Only

Tuesday, 12/17

Morbidity and Mortality Conference

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 12/18

USUHS Grand Rounds-Dr. Vicente: Pediatric Eye Review Jeopardy (Brochure Below)

0745-0850 USUHS Room A3, Building A and Virtual https://meet.google.com/abn-tkfw-xom

All Welcome

Thursday, 12/19

MR: Case, Pulmonology-Dr. Mulreany

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 12/20

MR: Case, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury-Dr. Klinkosz

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

23DEC-29DEC: Holiday Break Period #1

26DEC: McKenzie Bowling's Birthday

30DEC- 05JAN: Holiday Break Period #2

28DEC: Denisha Herndon's Birthday

02-04MAY: Spring Resident Retreat


20 JUN: Hail and Farewell




Resident Announcements


REMINDER Mid-Year PD Meetings

  • Sign-up for your mid-year PD Meetings with Dr. Hepps using the Google Calendar instructions in her email ASAP.


NEW NCR Well-Being Program

  • Check-out the NCCPeds Wellness Page linked here for information about wellness courses available to all staff and residents!


NEW IUD Survey

  • Please take Dr. Ahmed's IUD survey linked here


NEW Obesity Curriculum Survey

  • Please take Dr. Bowling's obesity curriculum survey linked here NLT 30DEC


Chief Check-Ins!

  •  Stop by Emily's office for mid-year chief check-ins between now and the holiday break! Open door hours listed below or text for availability:

    • Wednesday, 12/18: 1300-1700 (Attending office on 3W)


Library Closed Now through 31 JAN 2025


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!



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All Staff Updates


(SHORT) Mandatory Winter Trainings

Holiday Gate Hours

  • See flyer below for holiday gate hours through New Years



Inpatient/Outpatient Updates


Check-out the Chief Corner linked here for updates and resources!

PI/QI Reminders


Upcoming Sessions/Due-Outs:

  • NOW: Plans for data collection should be underway!

  • THIS WEEK December 16th- Full morning report working session

  • December 20th- eIRB Submissions Due

  • January 13th - Countermeasure implementation start


Link to PI/QI Google Doc: Google Doc 

Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities

Clerkship Round Robin (recurring throughout the year)

  • Contact Dr. Meaghan Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu) iif 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 Resident Opportunity!

Fetal Neonatal Transitions ICR (January 30, 2025)

  • Interested residents will be paired with a staff for this upcoming ICR session

  • Reach out to Dr. Hughes if interested!

POET Round Robin Teaching at USU->Looking for volunteers for 18DEC!

  • 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 27AUG2025 (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


Submission Information for the Walter Reeds Annual Research & Innovation Month

  • It's time to start preparing your abstracts for Research & Information month!

  • Submissions are due by January 26, 2025 (see attachment below for timelines)

  • Check out the SOCR folder on the Share drive for additional submission information




If you were recently published, send a copy of your paper Emily to be included in the POW!


Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:


NEW DEI Committee Event-Sasha Velour @ The Strathmore (Saturday, January 25)

  • Sasha Velour is a visual artist, speaker, illustrator and activist

  • Contact Noelle Molter if interested in attending! Tickets will be $30-$50 depending on final group size


Holiday Food Donation Opportunities

  • The Advocacy Committee will be coordination donation of food during the upcoming holiday season. See the options below for three opportunities to contribute!

    • Donate Non-Perishable Food: Now through 20DEC, we are collecting nonperishable food items to donate to families in need within Montgomery County for the holiday season. Please stop by the resident room or precepting room anytime before 20DEC to drop off food items.


Scholarship Application Now Open for the 2025 AAP Advocacy Conference! 

  • Registration is open for the 2025 AAP Advocacy Conference, which will take place March 2 - 4 in Arlington, VA!

  • Click this link for registration and scholarship application information


CATCH Grant Applications- NOW OPEN!

  • CATCH stands for Community Access to Child Health and offers funding for pediatricians and pediatric residents to perform projects addressing healthcare disparities in their communities

  • The application portal will be open November 1, 2024 to January 21, 2025

  • See attachment for more details



ARMY

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

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

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 Pediatricshttps://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 the 3W Team (Dr. Lisa Sukenaga, Dr. Rebecca Morgis and Dr. Leanne Perez) for effectively juggling two discharges, three admissions and a pediatric trauma on Friday afternoon!



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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