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Plan of the Week: Nov 11th- Nov 17th



Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 11/11 Block 6 Start!

No MR- Veteran's Day!



Tuesday, 11/12

MR: Case, Orient to Service (No Lecture)

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 11/13

Journal Club- Dr. Keenan Caswell. Please review article linked below!

0745-0850 Canyon Conference Room, Fourth Floor, America

All Welcome

Thursday, 11/14

Sim and Skills: NICU

0745-0850 Sim Center, 4th Floor Heroes Building

Residents and Medical Students

Friday, 11/15

MR: Case, Platelet Disorders-Dr. Bernhardt

0745- 0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

20 NOV: Hackathon!

28NOV: Anna Raymond's Birthday

3DEC, 05DEC & 06 DEC: CC Field Trip

28NOV: Erin Scroggin's Birthday

06 DEC: NCC Peds Holiday Party, Rock Bottom Brewery, 1900-2200

02DEC: Genesis James' Birthday

02-04MAY: Spring Resident Retreat

11DEC: MJ Spirnak's Birthday

Continuity Clinic: - Injury Prevention



THIS WEEK! Journal Club #4 (Nov 13-Keenan Caswell): Single vs. double dose of dexamethasone in asthma patients.



Resident Announcements


 REMINDER: Review your upcoming rotation Goals and Objectives on Med Hub!


NEW: Chief Check-Ins!

  • Stop by Emily's office for mid-year chief check-ins between now and the holiday break


NEW: Leadership Resources

Rotation Contacts Updated JUL2024

  • 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


NEW: Code Green Update

  • There is planned Code Green drill on Thursday, 14 NOV. Note that pediatrics is NOT required to send personnel. Direct any questions/clarifications to Dr. Kolasinski.


NEW: Do you have recent pediatric experience on deployment?

  • A team at USUHS is looking for faculty members to serve on a symposium panel discussing pediatric care in conflict. The panel will be held April 4th, 2025 at USU

  • If interested, reach out to Dr. Sara Bibbens (sara.bibbens@usuhs.edu)


USU Research Study: Parental Leave Policies

  • USU researchers are looking for active duty non-birthing parents who would like to discuss their parental leave. See flyer below for details.



JGMSEB Updates/School Year Plans


Clinic Updates


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

PI/QI Reminders


Upcoming Sessions/Due-Outs:

  • December 16th- Full morning report working session

  • December 20th- eIRB Submissions Due

  • January 13th - Countermeasure implementation start


Link to PI/QI Google Doc: Google Doc 

Educational/Teaching Opportunities


USU Teaching Opportunities

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

TBA

POET Round Robin Teaching at USU->Looking for volunteers for 18DEC!

  • POET week Pediatrics half day is a round robin format to orient USU medical students just prior to their pediatric clerkship rotation.

  • Upcoming sessions: 18DEC2024, 30APR2025, and 27AUG2025 (1300-1700 at USU)

  • 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


Submission Information for the Walter Reeds Annual Research & Innovation Month

  • It's time to start preparing your abstracts for Research & Information month!

  • Submissions are due by January 26, 2025 (see attachment below for timelines)

  • Check out the SOCR folder on the Share drive for additional submission information




Annual NCCPeds Case Report Hackathon-11/20/24

For those new to the Hackathon- the goal is to put together teams to work on a case report poster for the upcoming NCR competition (typically submissions are due at the end of January, 2025). Teams will meet in the evening on 11/20 to get their projects started (and eat pizza).

  • Residents: If interested, email Dr. Zanetti. If you have a case you'd like to use-let him know!

  • Faculty/Fellows: Email Dr. Zanetti if you have a case you'd like to work with residents to present. If you don't have a case but would like to serve as a mentor-let Dr. Zanetti know!


Save the Date-APA Conference 2025!

  • The annual APA (Academic Pediatric Association) Region 4 meeting will be held February 22-23 at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville, VA

  • Dr. Lopreiato is hoping for a strong military showing-get your abstacts ready!

  • Submission guidance can be found here: https://regionabstract.academicpeds.org/ 


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


Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:


NEW: Thanksgiving Food Collection

  • The Advocacy Committee will be collecting donations of food (canned and non-perishable) for families in need for their Thanksgiving meal

  • A box will be located in the resident work room for donations


Scholarship Application Now Open for the 2025 AAP Advocacy Conference! 

  • Registration is open for the 2025 AAP Advocacy Conference, which will take place March 2 - 4 in Arlington, VA!

  • Click this link for registration and scholarship application information


CATCH Grant Applications NOW OPEN!

  • CATCH stands for Community Access to Child Health and offers funding for pediatricians and pediatric residents to perform projects addressing healthcare disparities in their communities

  • The application portal will be open November 1, 2024 to January 21, 2025

  • See attachment for more details



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- NEW Call for O3 FitReps!

FITREPs- Due to Advisors by 18NOV

  • Plan to submit a draft of your block 41 in the attached NMRTC Bethesda FITREP template and Brag sheet to your advisor by Monday, 18NOV (Fissel-Lopreiato, Smith-Madison, Bowling and Spirnak-Wido, Neal and Paulson-Ferrara) to allow time to edit before the command due date of 29NOV. 

  • Below is a list of documents to submit with your FITREP (see email from Dr. Wido with attachments).

  1. Last FITREP (and letter of extension if applicable

  1. Brag sheet

  1. Copy of PRIMS (https://my.navy.mil/quick-links.html)-

  1. ETJ Admin Data Page (https://my.navy.mil/quick-links.html)-

  1. ETJ Career History Page (https://my.navy.mil/quick-links.html)




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 Pediatricshttps://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 Dr. McKenzie Bowling as Housestaff Council Vice President for delivering an impactful brief to 75 Program Directors and GME leaders at the GMEC on the value of video interpretation services.  Her survey-based needs assessment and proposal was immediately adopted for action by the NCC Board of Directors. She demonstrated impressive leadership and advocacy and represented our program well!



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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