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Plan of the Week: Mar 3-Mar 9

Updated: Mar 2



Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 3/3

MR: Case, Abdominal Tumors- Dr. Smith

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 3/4

MR: Journal Club-Dr. MJ Spirnak (Article below)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 3/5

USUHS Grand Rounds-Dr. Sarah Reynolds and Dr. Daniel Hammond

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

All Welcome

Thursday, 3/6

MR: Case, ECMO-Dr. Bolstridge

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 3/7

Board Review

0745-0850 America 2525

Medical Students, Interns, and Residents Only

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

02-04 MAY: Spring Resident Retreat

07 MAR: Grace Manno's Birthday!

13 JUN: 2025 NCC Graduation

22 APR: Karina Kauffman Brown's Birthday

20 JUN: Hail and Farewell


23 JUN: Supervisory Seminar


THIS WEEK! Journal Club (Tuesday, 3/4-Dr. MJ Spirnak): Clinical Question: What are the long-term outcomes for children who are exposed to acute kidney injury (AKI) in the neonatal period?




Resident Announcements


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


NEW The Library is Open!

  • Renovations are complete and the library is open and ready for use!


Inpatient/Outpatient Updates


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

PI/QI Reminders


Upcoming Sessions/Due-Outs:

  • 3/26- 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


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

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-NEW Leave Approver!

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 on 13FEB for Teams log-in information


Leave:

  • LCDR Sierra Howell is the new Navy leave approver

  • When submitting leave, please email LCDR Howell 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)

Play of the Week:


Play of the Week: Goes to Dr. Dan Rochford for coordinating the MD AAP Adovcacy Event and all of the residents in attendance (Drs. Fissel, Raymond, Dahlquist, Mascitti, Zhang, Spirnak, and Paulson) who 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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