Plan of the Week: Oct 13- Oct 17
- Nicole Martin
- Oct 10
- 5 min read
Play of the Week:
Play of the Week goes to Dr. Harvey Harper for a successful neonatal LP with only one single RBC! So impressive! It also goes to Dr. Camille Leoni for seamlessly using PPV to save an apneic baby in the delivery room.
Schedule:
Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes | |
Monday, 10/13 | Federal Holiday- No morning report | ||
Tuesday, 10/14 | Case and Orient to Service (No lecture) | 0745-0810 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Wednesday, 10/15 | Grand Rounds Cracking the Nut: Answering Tough Questions on Vaccines and Immune Responses with Cecilia Mikita, MD, MPH, FAAAAI | 0745-0845 Room A3, Bldg A, USUHS and Virtual Google Meet Platform via link: https://meet.google.com/abn-tkfw-xom | All Welcome |
Thursday, 10/16 | Clinicopathologic Conference by Dr. Anna Casey | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Friday, 10/17 | Case and Status Epilepticus by Dr. Hsieh | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
17 OCT: Boo Bash Trunk or Treat at the NEX | 12 OCT: Deborah Kolade |
18 OCT: Staff/resident/family paintball | 18 OCT: Katy Crandall |
18 OCT: INOVA Sudden Cardiac Death Symposium | 30 OCT: Kaitlyn Yeh |
22 OCT: Clinic Field Trip (Academic Half Day) | |
17 DEC: Case Report Hackathon |
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
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
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!
Case Report Hackathon
Get ready for the Case Report Hackathon on 17 December in place of Academic Half Day. More details coming soon!
IUD Curriculum Follow up Survey
Residents: Please complete the IUD Curriculum follow up survey by 8 October.
Your feedback is essential in helping Dr. Ahmed measure the impact of the curriculum and improve future training. The surveys should take less than 15 minutes total. Responses are anonymous and will only be used in aggregate for evaluation purposes.
Knowledge Assessment: Complete here Confidence Assessment: Complete here
Peds Heme Onc Sickle Cell Pain QI Project
Residents: Please complete Dr. Bernhardt's survey and informational video (10-15 min max including the survey!) to learn more about sickle cell pain management and help ongoing efforts to optimize ED sickle cell pain management!
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All Staff Updates
Sudden Cardiac Death Symposium
Saturday Oct 18 0800-1600
Free, local CME through INOVA organized by one of our own former military cardiologists! See flyer below.
Paintball game (residents, faculty, families)
Saturday 18 Oct in Severn MD
Join us for a day of fun playing paintball before the weather gets too cold! All faculty, residents, family members invited.
Refer to Nicole's email or reach out to Dr. Edwards for more details!
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: 7 Oct (Behavioral Health), 7 Nov (Symbicort), 2 Dec (Beyfortus), 6 Jan (Mid year presentations), 3 Feb (Behavioral Health), 3 Mar (Symbicort), 31 March (Beyfortus), 29 April (Behavioral Health), 2 June (End of year presentations)
See PGY3 template for project updates below:
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
Please reach out to Nicole if you have been accepted to any upcoming conferences.
Congratulations to Karina, Erin, and Keenan on their acceptance to the Child Neurology Society conference 2025!
Community Pediatrics/Advocacy Updates:
Trunk or Treat is back!
This is always a super fun event! 🎃 Reach out to MJ Spirnak with questions.
Who: Anyone who loves children (residents, medical students, family members, etc)
What: Boo Bash Trunk or Treat
Where: Bethesda NEX (across from the hospital)
When: 17OCT2025 1700-2100
Pathway to Pediatrics: The next Pathway to Pediatrics event will take place in the afternoon of 5 November (official time TBD). This is a volunteer event hosted by Population Health and Community Conversations at Washington School for the Girls and it is always a very fun time. Please reach out to Kayla Dahlquist if you are interested in attending!
ARMY
Army Leave
Current leave process
Please send an email to your 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 (PGY2/3) or Dr. Vasta (PGY1)
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 Maj Jean as first approver and Lt Col Reynolds as second approver
For the checklist - Overdue items will need a plan for updating or else leave is at jeopardy of not being approved.
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 – BCA tests are due at the end of your birth month
4 – PT test due date. You can check at myfss https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/usaf-fitness-management
5 – N/A for residents
NAVY
Leave:
LCDR Sierra Howell is now deployed through August 2025. Please send leave requests to CDR Danielle Barnes. CDR Barnes will be on leave 7/21-7/30, please submit upcoming leave prior to this.
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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