Plan of the Week: July 7- July 11
- Nicole Martin
- 3 days ago
- 4 min read
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
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
Register for all courses at this website: http://fac-dev.usuhs.edu/
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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