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Plan of the Week: Mar 17-Mar 23



Schedule:


Emily will be on OCONUS leave from Monday, March 17-Saturday, March 22. Please contact Amy Davis or residency leadership for any urgent resident or medical student issues.


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 3/17

MR: Derm Review for Pediatricians (Lecture First)-Dr. Wojnarksi then Healthy Habits Review -Dr. Madison

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 3/18

MR: Weight Bias- Dr. Molter and NP McGirt

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 3/19

USU Grand Rounds: Establishing an Observational Cohort to

Advance Pediatric Respiratory Co-Infection Research-Drs. Jones, Parson, and Malloy

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

All Welcome

Thursday, 3/20

MR: Case, General Pediatrics Rounds Table (Featuring a Surprise Guest!)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome. Please submit your questions using link below!

Friday, 3/21

MR: Case, Pediatric Spinal Cord Diseases-Dr. Shields

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

26 MAR: Academic Half Day

22 APR: Karina Kauffman Brown's Birthday

28-29 APR: PFCCS (Rising PGY-2s)

27 APR: Brenda Zhang's Birthday

02-04 MAY: Spring Resident Retreat


05MAY-07MAY: Intern CSA


13 JUN: 2025 NCC Graduation


20 JUN: Hail and Farewell


23 JUN: Supervisory Seminar



Resident Announcements


NEW Submit Your Gen Peds Round Table Questions NLT Wed, March 19


Seeking Medical Student Hosts for Interview Season!


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:

    • End of Training Documentation

      •  Review "Privileged Provider/ EOT Documentation" Section in TTP Handbook

        * DHA165- Program will prepare for you

        * DHA 367- Send to your Academic Advisor.  Upload to JCCQAS & MedHub Portfolio

        * Privileging Procedure Form- Complete yourself.  Upload to MedHub.  Once signed by PD, upload to JCCQAS

    • 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 Uniform Policy Review

  • Please review the WRNMMC uniform policy below

  • BLUF: For outpatient clinicians: ACU/NWUs M-Th, Respective service uniforms on Friday



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 (1300-1340)

    • Send invites now to all necessary stakeholders!

    • Countmeasure implementation should be starting

  • 5/2- Morning Report Working Session (0745-0850)

    • Rising PGY-2s will split from teams for project brainstorming session for AY25-26


Link to PI/QI Google Doc: Google Doc 

Educational/Teaching Opportunities



USU Academic Appointment Information Sessions

  • Dr. Jessica Servey, the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at USU will be hosting two virtual info sessions for residents interested in USU academic appointments after graduation.

  • Sessions are most applicable to graduating residents, but any resident can join

  • No sign-up is required, Google Meet links and times below:

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: Neonatal Fever 04/10/25, Lumbar Puncture 5/8/25.  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


NEW Pediatric Casualty Care Symposium- Friday, April 4

  • This inaugural event will be held Friday, April 4 from 0800-1530 in Rice Hall at USU. Tentative agenda attached below

  • Click this link to register: Symposium Registration

  • Residents on elective rotations are encouraged to reach out to Emily if interested in attending



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- NEW Semi-Annual ACFT Sign-Up

NEW Semi-Annual ACFT Sign-Up: 28APR-03MAY

  • Sign-up for your semi-annual ACFT ASAP using the QR code on the flyer linked below



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. Andrew Warren for presenting two fresh ward cases this week at morning report and generating excellent discussion! Way to go!



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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