Plan of the Week: July 14th-July 20th
- emily.ferraro
- Jul 14, 2024
- 3 min read
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 |
Special Event! USUHS Grand Rounds with Dr. Atul Gawande!
In-Person Attendance Encouraged, Virtual Option Available!
Virtual Link: meet.google.com/pyk-ondn-vya

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
Register for all courses at this website: http://fac-dev.usuhs.edu/
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)
Mandatory attendance for all interns with one year orders
Sign up to meet with the OMO/GMO detailer: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44ADA823A3FF2-50231825-detailer
Sign up for a career development board: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44ADA823A3FF2-50231631-career
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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