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Plan of the Week: July 7- July 11



Schedule:



Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 7/7

MR: Case, Oncologic Emergencies- Dr. Vasta

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 7/8

MR: Joint Residency/Fellowship Didactics-0730 start (No case)

0730-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 7/9

MR: Case, Dysmorphology - Dr. Schacht

0745-0850

Canyon Conference Room

All Welcome

Thursday, 7/10

MR: Case, Acute Respiratory Failure- Dr. Bolstridge

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 7/11

MR: Case, Speech Language Pathology- Melissa Covington

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

9 JUL: Social at "Live at the Lawn"

12 JUL: Camille Leoni

21 JUL: Block 2 Start

31 JUL: Simal Ali

23 JUL: Academic Half Day

1 AUG: Melanie Yonko

01 AUG: NCC Peds Kickball Game


09 AUG: What to Expect Baby Shower


13 SEP: Teddy Bear Clinic


Play of the Week:


Play of the Week: Goes to Mckenzie Bowling for being named housestaff council president! We are so proud of you!!




Meet our Rotating 4th Year Applicants!


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Continuity Clinic:See Continuity Clinic Assignments for AY 25-26 here!


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Resident Announcements


REMINDER Check your BLS/PALS Expiration Dates!

  • Reminder to check your BLS and PALS expiration dates and sign-up early for recertification courses

  • Classes fill quickly so sign-up early!

  • Follow the steps below to sign up for a recertification class

    • Click this link to access the Walter Reed Relias website

    • Click “Course Library”

    • Search “BLS” or "PALS"

      • BLS: You can sign up for for either Blended (requires pre-work) or Challenge Course

      • If challenge courses are full on Relias, reach out to POCs below to see if they will accept an add-on

    • BLS POCs: HN Beaty (maddox.r.beaty.mil@health.mil) and HN Roccabruna (bradyn.m.roccabruna.mil@health.mil)


Rotation Supervisor Contact List for AY 25-26

  • It's time to start reaching out to your Block 2 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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All Staff Updates





PI/QI Reminders


Upcoming Sessions/Due-Outs:

  • PI/QI is being moved to Morning Report! Each session will start with a PGY3 project update (max 5 minutes).

    • Session Dates for updates: 30 July (Behavioral Health), 5 Sep (Beyfortus), 7 Oct (Symbicort), 4 Nov (Behavioral Health), 2 Dec (Beyfortus), 3 Feb (Symbicort), 3 Mar (Behavioral Health), 7 Apr (Beyfortus), 5 May (Symbicort)

    • See PGY3 template for project updates here



Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities

ICR Small Group Teaching/Pediatric Teaching Opportunities at USU

  • Click the following this link to sign up for ICR teaching opportunities at USU

  • Click this link to sign up for other pediatric teaching opportunities in September (i.e. HEADS Exam, developmental delay, growth).

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: 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. Katie Jones (katherine.jones@usuhs.edu) if interseted

Faculty Development

Research & Upcoming Conferences


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


Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:


NEW What to Expect Baby Shower: Please reach out to Marian-Joy Spirnak if you're interested in helping her out setting up a booth for exepectant mothers for this year's "What to expect baby shower" event on base. Will take place on09 Aug 1100-1400 at Warrior Food Court in Building 62. Reach out to her if you're interested in helping! See flyer below.


NEW Teddy Bear Clinic: Teddy bear clinic is back! It will again take place at the National Museum of Health and Medicine with many fun activities on 13 Sep from 0930-1130. This event is always a blast. Reach out to Brandon Neal if you're interested in volunteering! They would like 10-14 volunteers from our crew (residents + med students). See flyer below.


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:

  • LCDR Sierra Howell is now deployed through August 2025. Please send leave requests to CDR Danielle Barnes.

  • When submitting leave, please email CDR Barnes 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)



Please reach out to Nicole at nicole.martin143@gmail.com or nicole.m.martin56.mil@health.mil with any questions or concerns.

 
 
 

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