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Plan of the Week: July 14th-July 20th

Updated: Jul 19, 2024




Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 7/15

Education Meeting

0730-0850

Academic & Military Advisors, Rotation Supervisors, Residency Leadership


Reverse Education

0745-0850 Resident Room

Residents Only

Tuesday, 7/16

MR: Case, Lecture: Toxidromes- Dr. Barbuto

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome


ITE Day #1

0800-1200 Building 85T, Room 2C09, Computer Classroom

Davis, Sukenaga, Martin, Hanciles, James, Neal, Kolade, Scroggins, Caswell, Perez, Koury

Wednesday, 7/17

USUHS Grand Rounds- Dr. Atul Gawande

0745-0850 USUHS Sanford Auditorium and Virtual Platform

All Welcome Mandatory In-Person Resident Attendance

Thursday, 7/18

MR: Case, Lecture: Antibiotics 101- Dr. Helfrich

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome


ITE Day #2

0800-1200 Building 85T, Room 2C09, Computer Classroom

Caballero, Patel, Fissel, Liggett, Mascitti, Rochford, Sallander, Spirnak, Ali, Manno, Yonko


Resident Social!

~1800 Tommy Joe's Rooftop, Bethesda

Residents and MS4s

Friday, 7/19

MR: Board Review

0745-0850 America 2525

Medical Students and Residents Only


Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

16JUL: ITE Group #1

08JUL: Samantha Hanciles

17JUL: Grand Rounds with Atul Gawande Mandatory In-Person Resident Attendance

19JUL: Connor Liggett

18JUL: ITE Group #2

31JUL: Simal Ali

22JUL: Block 2 Starts

01AUG: Melanie Yonko

24JUL: ITE Group #3


24JUL: Academic Half Day #1


Special Event! USUHS Grand Rounds with Dr. Atul Gawande!

In-Person Attendance Encouraged, Virtual Option Available!



Continuity Clinic: Health Maintenance #1- Growth and Newborn Screen



Resident-Specific Announcements


  • Leave Requests: Please submit leave requests for Blocks 5-8 NLT July 16th

  • Reverse Education: If unable to attend reverse education on 15JUL, please provide faculty feedback by clicking here

  • PALS/BLS/NRP: Upload certificates directly to MedHub for ease of tracking.

  • Conferences: If you have an abstract accepted for presentation at AAP (or other conferences) send accepted submission message, date of presentation and copy of abstract to Emily ASAP.

  • AAP Accounts: AAP accounts for AY24-25 are now active! This means you can access your Pedialink questions! Please see the below PDFs for descriptions of AAP membership benefits and instructions for accessing Pedialink.



Meet our Rotating 4th Year Medical Students!



Clinic Updates

  • Check your Genesis clinic schedule weekly to ensure your appointments are templated correctly!

  • To make a change to your clinic schedule (i.e. cancel or add patient appointments), email Blue Team Administrator: Ms. Alyssa Gallishaw-Wiggins (alyssa.gallishaw-wiggins.ctr@health.mil) and cc Emily and Dr. Carr.

  • To schedule continuity patient appointments, email Blue Team Administrator: Ms. Alyssa Gallishaw-Wiggins (alyssa.gallishaw-wiggins.ctr@health.mil) and cc Emily and Dr. Carr

  • Login to your OneDrive account to ensure you are able to upload documents to Genesis from your share drive (see Emily or Dr. Carr with questions).

  • See the below PDF for instructions for provider add-on encounters to ensure we get credit for our work!




All Staff Updates


Scutdog 2024-2025

The Scutdog for this upcoming Academic Year is now complete! Please download the PDF below. Hardcopies have been sent to print and will be available in the Chief Resident office when complete.



NCC Peds Bookstore Clothing Order

All NCC Peds clothing orders can be placed through the USU book store (link below) and is open year round!



JGMSEB Updates/School Year Plans


Fellowship Application/Resident JGMESB Guidance:


Army School Year Plan:



Air Force HPERB:



NEW: Navy GMSEB Site Selection Goals



Rotation Contacts Updated JUL2024

  • Don't forget to reach out to your Block 2 rotation supervisor! The below attachment has the most up-to-date contact information.

  • Additionally, check MedHub and review updated goals & objectives for your upcoming rotation!



Educational/Teaching Opportunities

USU Teaching Opportunities

Clerkship Round Robin (recurring throughout the year)

  • Contact Dr. Brian Hughes (brian.hughes@usuhs.edu) if 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 for AY24-25!

  • Sept 17th 1300-1630: Developmental Delay ICR (Virtual only)

  • Sept 18th 1300-1630: Pediatric Growth ICR

  • Sept 23rd 1300-1630: Pediatric Issues ICR

  • Sept 24th 1030-1200: Adolescent Day - HEADSS exam debrief

  • Sept 24th 1300-1430: Pediatric Integrated Cases

  • Please use the link to sign up

  • Questions? Email Dr. Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu)

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 (starting in next 3 weeks)

  • Current sessions: TBA

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

  • Please email Dr. Hughes (brian/hughes@usuhs.edu)


Faculty Development


Research & Upcoming Conferences


NEW: Call for Abstracts for the Conference on Military Perinatal Research (COMPRA)

  • Conference held in San Antonio, November 1-3rd, 2024

  • Abstracts due Friday, August 2nd (see submission guidelines below)




Recent NCC Peds Publications!


  • Nicole Martin and Theresa Urbina: Neoreviews (July 1, 2024)


  • Bailey Howard, MD, Gregory Gorman, MD MHS: Military Medicine (June 27, 2024)


If you were recently published pease send your article to Emily to include on the POW!


Upcoming Conferences

2024 Section on Uniformed Services Scientific Awards Abstract Competition -September 27th - October 1st in Orlando, FL (AAP Conference)

Please send accepted abstract submissions to Emily ASAP!

National Medical Association Conference -August 3rd-7th in New York City

Please send accepted abstract submissions to Emily ASAP!


The NMA is the nation's oldest and largest organization representing African American physicians and health professionals in the United States. Established in 1895, the NMA is the collective voice of more than 30,000 African American physicians and the patients they service. 

SOPT Trainee News & Views Blog


Community Pediatrics Updates:


Teddy Bear Clinic

  • Mark your calendars! The annual Teddy Bear Clinic will be held September 14th from 0930-1130 at thr National Museum of Health and Medicine. Reach out to Kevin Westbrook if interested!

ARMY

Army PGY-1s: MAJ Saira Ahmed will be covering down as PGY-1 Advisor during the absence of LTC Williams. Please direct all leave requests in IPPS-A to MAJ Ahmed.


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- Operational Road Show (16AUG)

Operational Road Show (16AUG)



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 Pediatrics https://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 Kevin Westbrook and McKenzie Bowling for their efforts during the delivery of an infant with gastroschisis overnight in the NICU. Kevin demonstrated stellar leadership in the delivery room and McKenzie was quick to assist while working on the floor overnight. Excellent teamwork!



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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