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Plan of the Week: Dec 2nd-Dec 8th



Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 12/2

MR: Case, Congenital Infections: HIV- Dr. Jones

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 12/3

MR: Case, Endo (Topic TBA)-Dr. Reynolds

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 12/4

USUHS Grand Rounds- AI in Pediatrics- Charting a Future of Promise and Precaution-Dr. Ryan McAdams

0745-0850 USUHS Room A3, Building A and Google Meet

In-Person Resident Attendance Required. Virtual Link: https://meet.google.com/abn-tkfw-xom

Thursday, 12/5

MR: Case, GI (Topic TBA)-Dr. Barnes

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 12/6

MR: Board Review and Virtual Staff Meeting

0745-0850 America 2525

Medical Students and Residents Only


NCC Peds Holiday Party!

1900-2200 @ Rock Bottom Brewery

RSVP by MONDAY (12/2)-Details below.

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

03DEC, 05DEC & 06 DEC: CC Field Trip

02DEC: Genesis James' Birthday

03 DEC: Lifestyle Medicine Info Session

11DEC: MJ Spirnak's Birthday

06 DEC: NCC Peds Holiday Party, Rock Bottom Brewery, 1900-2200.

26DEC: McKenzie Bowling's Birthday

02-04MAY: Spring Resident Retreat


20 JUN: Hail and Farewell



Continuity Clinic: - Field Trip! Buy Buy Baby Scavenger Hunt


REMINDER: Continuity Clinic Field Trip to Buy-Buy Baby- December 2, 5 & 6!

  • Please review the assigned dates for the field trip below. For the majority of residents, this will count as your continuity clinic for the week (i.e. you will not have patients scheduled in the afternoon). Residents who will be seeing patients and attending the field trip have received an email confirming their schedules. Please review your Genesis and Amion schedules and let me know if you have questions!

    • Location: Buy-Buy Baby (1683 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852). Groups should meet in the Congressional Plaza for Lunch by 1300.

    • Tuesday, Dec 3rd : Smith, Spirnak, Paulson, Koury, Kauffman, Morgis, James, Liggett

    • Thursday, Dec 5th: Ali, Manno, Scroggins, Zhang, Rochford, Casey, Raymond

    • Friday, Dec 6th: Doman, Caswell, Dahlquist, Neal, Bowling, Westbrook, Sukenaga, Yonko, Davis, Fissel , Perez 

Resident Announcements


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:

    • Monday, 12/2: 1100-1700

    • Wednesday, 12/4: 1000-1700

    • Tuesday, 12/10: 0900-1200

    • Friday, 12/13: 1200-1700 (Attending office on 3W)

    • Wednesday, 12/18: 1200-1700 (Attending office on 3W)


Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum Information Session- December 3rd


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


NCC Peds Holiday Party-Friday, December 6th

  • RSVP BY MONDAY, December 2nd!

  • All are invited to join NCC Peds for our holiday extravaganza on Friday, December 6th from 1900-2200 at Rock Bottom Brewery!

  • For RSVP and party details, click here


(SHORT) Mandatory Winter Trainings


Ms. Magruder's (Surprise) Retirement Party- Friday, December 13th


Holiday Gate Hours

  • See flyer below for holiday gate hours through New Years



 NCC DEI Health Equity Grand Rounds- December 6th @ 1200

  • This session is hosted by the NCC GMEC DEI Subcommittee and will focus on systems approaches to addressing health disparities (including community partnerships!) presented by the illustrious health equity expert, Dr. Tatiana Warren, from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.

  • Details:

    • Date: 12/6/2024

    • Time: 1200-1300

    • Location: Clark Auditorium, Building 10


Do you have recent pediatric experience on deployment?

  • A team at USUHS is looking for faculty members to serve on a symposium panel discussing pediatric care in conflict. The panel will be held April 4th, 2025 at USU

  • If interested, reach out to Dr. Sara Bibbens (sara.bibbens@usuhs.edu)



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!

  • 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




APA Conference 2025-Abstracts due December 1st (Today!)

  • The annual APA (Academic Pediatric Association) Region 4 meeting will be held February 22-23 at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, VA

  • Dr. Lopreiato is hoping for a strong military showing of faculty and resident projects!

  • Submission guidance can be found here: https://regionabstract.academicpeds.org/ 

    • APA welcomes all types of child health focused scholarship, including research, quality improvement, and educational scholarship

    • APA follows the same submission requirements as PAS, (Abstract Submission Guidelines.docx), namely a 2,600 character limit (including spaces) and the ability to upload tables and figures.

    • Works in progress will be considered for poster presentation


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


Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:


NEW Volunteer Opportunity- Winter Wonderland Brunch


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 support staff, residents, fellows and attendings who covered the units during the Thanksgiving holiday to ensure our patients were well cared for!



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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