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Plan of the Week: Dec 8- Dec 12



Play of the Week:


Play of the Week this week goes to Dr. Keenan Caswell for successfully intubating a patient at INOVA PICU on the first attempt. Way to represent NCC Peds!!

Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 12/8

Case and Special Presentation followed. by Orient to Service (No Lecture)

0745-0815 America 2525

All Welcome Please join us for a surprise announcement and breakfast provided by Dr. Patterson before the case!

Tuesday, 12/9

Joint Residency and Fellowship Didactics by Dr. Orestes (No Case)

0745-0845 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 12/10

Communication Simulation

0730-0845 Sim Center

Residents, TYs, and medical students only Please note 0730 start

Thursday, 12/11

Case and NICU Special Delivery Prep by Dr. Zven

0745-0845 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 12/12

Case and PGY2 Lecture by Dr. Perez

0745-0845 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

12 DEC: Holiday Party

7 December: Brittany Hume-Dawson

17 DEC: Case Report Hackathon

11 December: MJ Spirnak

10 MAR: MD AAP Resident Advocacy Day

26 December: Mckenzie Bowling


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Continuity Clinic: See Continuity Clinic Assignments for AY 25-26 here!


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Resident Announcements


Check your BLS/PALS Expiration Dates!

  • Reminder to check your BLS and PALS expiration dates and sign-up early for recertification courses

  • Classes fill quickly so sign-up early!

  • Follow the steps below to sign up for a recertification class


Rotation Supervisor Contact List for AY 25-26

  • 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!



Case Report Hackathon

Get ready for the Case Report Hackathon on 17 December in place of Academic Half Day. If you would not like to participate, this will be your assigned ARM ady for the block. Reach out to Dr. K if you have a case you'd like to bring to the table!



Please complete Dr. Ahmed's IUD Curriculum 3 month survey by Dec 15! (instructionos below)

Thank you again for participating in the online modules and IUD procedure training during the August Academic Half Day. As part of the project evaluation, we’re asking you to complete the 3-month post-course knowledge and confidence assessments.

Your feedback is essential in helping us measure the impact of the curriculum and improve future training. The surveys should take less than 10 minutes total. Responses are anonymous and will only be used in aggregate for evaluation purposes.

 Knowledge Assessment: Complete here

 Confidence Assessment: Complete here

You may need to forward this email to your personal email accounts to complete the Google Forms.

It will ask you again for your unique identifier. As a reminder, here are the instructions that were used to create the identifier:

·                     First letter of your middle name in lowercase (or last name if you don’t have a middle name) (e.g., m).

·                     First and last digits of your phone number (e.g., 37).

·                     State abbreviation where you graduated from college—lowercase (e.g., ca).

·                     Example identifier: m37ca, Type NA as your identifier if you did not register for the curriculum prior to attending the Academic Half Day Hands On Session and did not create a unique identifier

Please read and complete the following Peds Heme Onc QI Projects below

“Quality Improvement: Iron supplementation in full-term breastfed infants at 4 month well exams” by Dr. Yejin Yoo

For those who could not be there, I want to make sure everyone is included and informed:

 

  • Problem Statement: AAP recommends that exclusively/predominantly breastfed full-term infants receive 1mg/kg/day of elemental iron starting at 4 months, until iron-rich complementary foods are introduced.

    • Our PCMH clinic has poor compliance of implementing this AAP guideline due to lack of standardization, provider understanding, or inconsistency in parental counseling at well visits.

  • Aim Statement: Increase the proportion of eligible full-term breastfed infants who receive iron supplementation by 4 months of age from X% (baseline) to 90% within 6 months.

  • Team Members:

    • All pediatric staff and residents at WR PCMH

    • Nursing staff

  • Interventions/Change Idea:

    • Implement a visual reminder and documentation template in the EMR at the 4-month well-child visit to prompt clinician to:

1) Prescribe or recommend appropriate iron drops- Please switch D-visol to Poly-visol with Iron at 4 month well exams for exclusively/predominantly breastfed babies

2) Provide appropriate counseling regarding iron- Please give parent iron handout (will be available in exam rooms and on the shared drive)

3) Document counseling and prescription in the EMR- Please use the dot phrase below and include “Start Poly-visol with Iron daily. Counseling provided to parents regarding infant’s iron needs.”

 


 

Also for those who missed the morning report, please fill out this quick 5-question pre-survey


Sickle Cell Pain Management Optimization QI Project by Dr. Michael Bernhardt

Please watch the following educational powerpoint and complete the pre and post surveys:

Pre-Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q8DKY3L

 

Post-Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DRZJH7F

 

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All Staff Updates


Please join us to celebrate the holiday season at the annual NCC Pediatrics Holiday Party!

When? December 12th from 7-10 pm

Where? 7 Locks Brewing (12227 Wilkins Ave, Rockville, MD 20852)

How much? $60 per person

Who's welcome? NCC Pediatrics staff, family, and friends

Dress code? Festive and casual

What's Included? Dinner, beer, wine, and some non-alcoholic beverages

 

White Elephant Gift Exchange: Bring a wrapped gift to participate! All gifts must be $15 or less.

 

Holiday Cookie Contest: Please bring at least 2 dozen cookies to compete for the most festive cookie (Cookie Couture Award) and best tasting cookie (Best Bite of the Season Award).


Venmo: @LeannePerez

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See details for the gingerbread house contest in clinic below!


PI/QI Reminders


Upcoming Sessions/Due-Outs:

  • PI/QI is being moved to Morning Report! Each session will start with a PGY3 project update (max 5 minutes).

    • Session Dates for updates: 6 Jan (Mid year presentations), 3 Feb (Behavioral Health), 3 Mar (Symbicort), 31 March (Beyfortus), 29 April (Behavioral Health), 2 June (End of year presentations)

    • See PGY3 template for project updates below:



Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities

ICR Small Group Teaching/Pediatric Teaching Opportunities at USU

ICR Small Group Teaching Opportunities at USU

  • RESIDENTS, FELLOWS, & FACULTY

  • Introduction to Clinical Reasoning (ICR) is a longitudinal pre-clerkship course that teaches medical students how to collect and synthesize clinical data. There are two upcoming Pediatrics sessions on Neonatal Respiratory Distress & Congenital Heart Disease.

  • Upcoming sessions: 30JAN2025 (1300-1700 at USU)

  • All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to events

  • Please click on the following LINK to sign up


POET Round Robin Teaching at USU

  • POET Round Robin Teaching at USU

    • RESIDENTS ONLY

    • Pediatrics POET half day is a round robin format to orient USU medical students just prior to their pediatric clerkship rotation. Sessions cover Growth & Development, Ear Exam, Newborn Exam, and Shock & Weight-based Dosing.

    • Upcoming session: 7JAN2025 (1300-1700 at USU)

    • All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to event

    • Please click on the following LINK to sign up




Faculty Development

Research & Upcoming Conferences


Please reach out to Nicole if you have been accepted to any upcoming conferences.

WRNMMC DETR, DRP, 18th Annual Research & Innovation Month Research & Non-research inquiry award competitions deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, January 25, 2026

If you are identified as a finalist, you are required to create a poster for Poster Display Week (24 April 8 May 2026). Moving on to our oral competitions, creating a PowerPoint slide talk for the oral presentation in front of a panel of three judges in the NICoE auditorium in early May. Later that month, our Phillips Award winners go on to compete in person with other medical centers for four awards in the 41st Annual Navy-wide Academic Research Competition (ARC), hosted by NMCPS on Friday, 15 May 2026.  

CATCH (Community Access to Child Health) Program Call for Proposals due January 20, 2026

The CATCH program, which has funded over 2,000 community projects over the past 3 decades, invites pediatricians in training and in practice to apply for grant funding to lead innovative community-based initiatives that increase children’s access to optimal health or well-being. Proposals should involve partnership with a community organization and address a health issue impacting underserved children in the local community. The call for proposals opens Saturday, November 1, 2025, with applications due Tuesday, January 20, 2026, including special topical funding opportunities. CATCH grants are open to AAP member pediatricians and resident trainees in US and Canadian AAP chapters, for projects in the US and Canada. CATCH resident grants are $2,000 and CATCH planning and CATCH implementation grants are $10,000. View the CATCH video for inspiration. Register here for any of the CATCH applicant office hours listed below to learn more and receive feedback on the development of an application.


APA Region IV 2026 (Feb 28- Mar 1 2026): Early bird registration due Jan 18 2026

Register here: https://acpa.memberclicks.net/apa-region-4-meeting-2026

 

A few important notes:

- The APA Region IV Annual Meeting will take place from February 28 to March 1, 2026

- Venue: Omni Hotel, 212 Ridge McIntire Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903, United States

·                     We are pleased to offer a dedicated hotel block for attendees of the APA Region IV Meeting. To secure the group rate, please book your room using the link below:

Click here to reserve your room

·                     Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so we encourage you to book early.

·                     Deadline to book your room in the hotel block is 2/6/2026



Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:


MD AAP Residency Advocacy Day: March 10 2026

Mark your calendars! More details to come. We will intermittently check the website for updates (https://www.mdaap.org/events-meetings/)


AAP Advocacy Conference: April 12- 14 2026

The AAP Advocacy Conference will be in Arlington, VA this year. More information can be found here

If you're interested in the scholarship, you can apply for it here

ARMY

Army Leave

  • Current leave process

    • Please send an email to your 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 (PGY2/3) or Dr. Vasta (PGY1)

      • 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, sign, and have Maj Kolasinski sign the attached checklist when submitting leave.

  • Put Maj Kolasinski as first approver and Maj Jean as second approver

  • For the checklist - Overdue items will need a plan for updating or else leave is at jeopardy of not being approved.

  • 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 – BCA tests are due at the end of your birth month

4 – PT test due date. You can check at myfss https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/usaf-fitness-management

5 – N/A for residents


For OCONUS leave: Submit to Maj Jean instead of Dr. K or Zanetti with Dr. Reynolds as back up approver



NAVY

Leave:

  • LCDR Sierra Howell is now deployed through August 2025. Please send leave requests to CDR Danielle Barnes. CDR Barnes will be on leave 7/21-7/30, please submit upcoming leave prior to this.

  • When submitting leave, please email CDR Barnes and cc the 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)



Please reach out to Nicole at nicole.martin143@gmail.com or nicole.m.martin56.mil@health.mil with any questions or concerns.

 
 
 
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