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Plan of the Week: Jan 13-Jan 19

Updated: Jan 13



Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 1/13: Block 8 Start!

Case & Orient to Service (No Lecture)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 1/14

Journal Club-Dr. Victoria Smith (Article Below)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 1/15

USUSH Grand Rounds- COL Jeremy Edwards- Palliative Care for the Military Clinician

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

All Welcome

Thursday, 1/16

MR: Case, Neonatal Apnea-Dr. Harrell

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 1/17

MR: Case, Traumatic Brain Injury-Dr. Bibbens

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

22JAN: SOCR Meetings

16JAN: Maddie Mascitti's Birthday!

22JAN: Dr. Roger's Farewell Breakfast

31JAN: Jacquelin Doman's Birthday!

22JAN: AHD-MMOC

07FEB: Grace Manno's Birthday!

02-04MAY: Spring Resident Retreat


20 JUN: Hail and Farewell



THIS WEEK! Journal Club (Tuesday, 1/14-Dr. Victoria Smith): Clinical Question: In afebrile neonates under 60 days old with pustules and/or vesicles, does a selective workup strategy (e.g., based on gestational age and lesion morphology) lead to similar outcomes compared to a more comprehensive workup strategy?




Resident Announcements


NEW Seeking AY 25-26 Recruitment Committee Members!

  • Rising PGY-2s and 3s: Interested in serving on the recruitment committee for AY 25-26? Email Emily and Nicole NLT 24JAN.


SOCR Meetings- 22 JAN

  • See email from Dr. Zanetti for information and sign-up

  • Senior residents: you must have your project update active with the SOCR committee by 1/22 to maintain your second ARM day


Chief Check-Ins!

  •  Stop by Emily's office for mid-year chief check-ins next week if you haven't already done so. Goal for completion is 16JAN.


REMINDER Reach out to your Block 8 Rotation Supervisors!

  • 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!



Library Closed Now through 31 JAN


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Transition to Practice (PGY-3s Only)


  • The Pre-Graduation Handbook is linked here. Please review the table of contents in the next 1-2 to get a road map for resources available in this document .

  • Current Task: Register for the ABP General Pediatrics Certifying Exam. Registration will open next week and close on 4/1.

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All Staff Updates


NEW MLK Jr. Day of Service Event- Monday, January 20

  • Join us for our annual MLK Day of Service event on Monday, 1/20 from 1200-1400 in Canyon Conference Room

  • We will be making blankets for pediatric patients admitted at Walter Reed. This is a family friendly event and all are welcome to join!

  • Click this link to RSVP!

  • Can't join us in-person but still interested in helping? Donations are welcome to cover the cost of materials. Venmo Emily Ferraro (@Emily-Ferraro817). Cash or check also accepted.


Dr. Roger's Farewell Breakfast- 22 JAN

  • Faculty, fellows and residents are invited to celebrate Dr. Rogers at a Farewell breakfast on Wednesday, January 22 from 0745-0845 in the 3W Playroom

  • A light breakfast will be provided. $5 donations to Staccee Springer are suggested

  • Please RSVP to Stacee Springer by 20JAN (stacee.a.springer.civ@health mil)


Mandatory Winter Trainings- PART 2

NCR Well-Being Program

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

Inpatient/Outpatient Updates


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

PI/QI Reminders


Upcoming Sessions/Due-Outs:

  • January 13th - Countermeasure implementation start

  • February 26th- Academic Half Day working session


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

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

  • 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


NEW AAP SOUS Scientific Awards Competition Call for Submissions!

  • AAP Section on Uniform Services (SOUS) Scientific Awards Competition (SAC) will begin accepting abstract submissions on February 2 through April 4.

  • See flyer below for details



Resident Research Opportunity

  • COL Edwards is looking for interested residents to assist with two upcoming research projects:

    • MHS wide survey looking at palliative medicine knowledge gaps in MSH clinicians and how they compare to our civilian counterparts

    • Impact of a formal communication program on climate, culture, and burnout in the Department of Pediatrics looking at pre, post and follow up data.

  • If interested, email COL Edwards at jeremy.v.edwards.mil@health.mil


2025 Partnership for Military Child and Family Health Research Symposium

  • This annual event host by USU Department of Pediatrics will be held April 2, 2025 and includes a poster session, which is an opportunity to feature recent research focused on the health and well-being of military children.  

  • Previously submitted/presented research is eligible for consideration. In person attendance is not required to have a poster displayed. If you submitted to the Pediatric Academic Societies conference, please consider submitting to this event.

  • Call for Research: Open now - February 10, 2025

  • Email binny.chokshi@usuhs.edu with any questions.


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:


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)

Play of the Week:


Play of the Week: Goes to the inpatient teams who braved the snowstorm to care for our inpatients this week. Bonus POW to the PI/QI teams for their excellent mid-year project updates. Strong work!


Baby of the Week: Congrats to Dr. Melanie Yonko and her husband Ben on the newest addition to their family, Baby Silas!



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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