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Plan of the Week: Feb 10-Feb 16



Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 2/10 Block 9 Start!

MR: Case, Orient to Service (No Lecture)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 2/11

MR: Case, Otoscopy Workshop-Dr. Lopreiato

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome. Residents please bring your otoscopes if you have them!

Wednesday, 2/12

Sim & Skills: Suturing, abscess I&D and bladder catheterization

0745-0850, Sim Center, 4th Floor, Heroes Building

Residents and Medical Students Only

Thursday, 2/13

MR: Case, GI Manifestatioins of Cystic Fibrosis-Dr. Min

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 2/14

Resident Wellness

0745-0850 America 2525

Medical Students and Residents Only

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

26FEB: Endo Academic Half-Day

07MAR: Grace Manno's Birthday!

28FEB: Thank a Resident Day!


02-04MAY: Spring Resident Retreat


20 JUN: Hail and Farewell



Resident Announcements


NEW Child Background Checks

  • If you receive an email from the security team requesting renewal of your background checks-please complete ASAP


NEW Overdue Trainings

  • Check you military emails for notification of overdue trainings (HIPAA, Cyber Security) and complete ASAP


NEW GME Patient Safety Video

  • If you missed Morning Report last Wednesday, please take 10-min to watch this video, which covers GME patient safety reports (PSRs) and root-cause analyses (RCAs)

  • GME Quality & Patient Safety Video (accessible from DHA computer)


NEW Blue Team Clinic Messaging

  • When requesting contintuity clinic changes, appointment scheduling, or other adminstrative requests, please message to "Blue Team Scheduling" only.


Rotation Supervisors

  • Reach out to your Block 9 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!



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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 Tasks:

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

    • Read the End of Tour Awards section of the Pre-Graduation Handbook

    • NEW Upload your completed EOT Awards Brag Sheet to your Resident Portfolios by 2/14

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All Staff Updates


NEW Library Update

  • Due to budget cuts, we no longer have access to Isabel differential diagnosis tool or Dynamed through the Darnell library


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:

  • February 26th- Academic Half Day working session


Link to PI/QI Google Doc: Google Doc 

Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities


NEW Longitudinal Clinical Skills for MD/PhD students

  • Volunteers will help lead hour long case-based discussion to a small group of students in USU's combined MD/PhD program. These students have completed their pre-clerkship phase of medical school and are doing research for their PhD before moving on to clerkships. 

  • Upcoming sessions: Headache 3/6/25, Neonatal Fever 04/10/25, Lumbar Puncture 5/08/25.  All sessions are from 0900-1000.

    - Email Dr. Parsons (emily.parsons@usuhs.edu) if interested

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


Publication Announcement-Dr. Keenan Caswell and Dr. Arora

  • Wearable Neurotechnology for the Treatment of Insomnia: The Study Protocol of a Prospective, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Crossover Clinical Trial of a Transcranial Electrical Stimulation Device



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



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.


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


Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:


NEW MDAAP/National AAP Webinar: "National Legislative Matters of Interest to MD Pediatric Providers"

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 following faculty for their recent academic promotions at USU. Congratulations!

  • Dr. Olcay Jones (Walter Reed) to the rank of Professor

  • Colonel Jennifer Kicker (Walter Reed) to the rank of Clinical Associate Professor

  • Lieutenant Colonel Sarah Reynolds (Walter Reed)  to the rank of Clinical Associate Professor



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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