Plan of the Week: Feb 24-Mar 2
- emily.ferraro
- Feb 23
- 5 min read
Schedule:
*****It's "Thank a Resident" week! Special events listed below!*****
Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes | |
Monday, 2/24 | Education/Reverse Education | Faculty: 0730-0850 America 2525 Residents: 0745-0850 Resident Room | Pediatric residents only. If unable to attend, please provide faculty feedback using this link. |
Thank a Resident Event | Coffee and Doughnuts | 0700-0800. Arrowhead, Next to the Gen Surg Clinic | |
Tuesday, 2/25 | MR: Morbidity and Mortality | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Thank a Resident Event | Dr. Saperstein, Medical Improv, “This is Us,” Lunch Provided | 1200-1300 America 2525 (IM Conference Room) | |
Wednesday, 2/26 | Academic Half Day- No Morning Report | ||
Academic Half Day- Endocrinology (Schedule below) | See assigned locations below | Pediatric Residents: 1300-1630. Medical students/off-service interns: 1330-1530 only. | |
Thank a Resident Event | MG(ret) Caravalho, Leadership in Military Medicine; Cake cutting with Hospital Leadership | 1200-1300 Memorial Auditorium | Lunch provided, Door prizes!! Must be present to win! |
Thursday, 2/27 | MR: Case, GI Lecture-Dr. Hammon | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Thank a Resident Event | Coffee and Doughnuts | 0700-0800 America Building | |
Catered Dinner for Night Teams | 1930-2030 Arrowhead, next to the Wedge | ||
Friday, 2/28 | National Thank a Resident Day-No Morning Report. Pediatric Resident Event Only | 0815-0845 America 2525 | Pediatric Residents Only. Please report to 2525 after getting your free breakfast at the Galley! |
Thank a Resident Event | Breakfast Voucher | 0700-0800, The Galley |
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 |
Continuity Clinic: Advocacy (NEW)
Resident Announcements
NEW Academic Half-Day Schedule (Wednesday, 26FEB): Endocrinology
Agenda
1300-1330- PI/QI Working Session
RSV & Asthma Groups- Desert Conference Room (2nd Floor, America Building)
Behavioral Health Group- Allergy Conference Room (4th Floor, America Building)
1330-1530- Endocrine AHD
Meet NLT 1335 in Desert Conference Room (2nd Floor, America Building)
1530-1615- Housestaff Meeting (Pediatric Residents only)-ACGME Survey Brief
Desert Conference Room
Inpatient residents are expected to return to the units for sign-out
Thank a Resident Week Calendar of Events (24FEB-28FEB)
Check out the flyer below for a list of events (and lots of free food!)
Blue Team Clinic Messaging
When requesting contintuity clinic changes, appointment scheduling, or other adminstrative requests, please message to "Blue Team Scheduling" only.
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!
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Transition to Practice (PGY-3s Only)
The Pre-Graduation Handbook is linked here. Please review the table of contents.
Current Tasks:
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
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
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 (Next Session 30APR)
POET week Pediatrics half day is a round robin format to orient USU medical students just prior to their pediatric clerkship rotation.
Upcoming sessions: 30APR2025, and 27AUG2025 (1300-1700 at USU)
Sessions run from 1300-1700 (report NLT 1245)
All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to events
Please email Dr. Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu) if interseted
Faculty Development
Register for all courses at this website: http://fac-dev.usuhs.edu/
Research & Upcoming Conferences
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. 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:
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-Meet the Detailer!
Open House Featuring CDR Celeste Young, Navy Detailer
This upcoming open house will provide the opportunity to meet your detailer will be playing an increased role in the assignments process moving forward.
Date: MARCH 12 at 1600 EST (Teams)
See Dr. Hepps' email sent by Dr. Hepps on 13FEB for Teams log-in information
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 Dr. Keenan Caswell for putting together teaching materials for a headache, including a case he recently saw that he will teach to USU MD/PhD students. Thank you for your hard work!
Bonus Play of the Week: Goes to all the presenters at the APA conference this weekend. You made Walter Reed proud!
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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