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Plan of the Week: Oct 20- Oct 24



Play of the Week:


Play of the Week goes to Dr. Brenda Zhang and Dr. Leanne Perez on successful lumbar punctures this week. You guys are awesome!!

Schedule:


Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 10/20

Case and CPS Lecture by Ms. Sarah Martin and Dr. Brennan

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Tuesday, 10/21

Joint Residency/Fellowship Core Curriculum (No Case)

0730-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Wednesday, 10/22

Academic Half Day: Clinic Field Trip (no morning report)

More info to come- lunch with assigned continuity day followed by Target "Buy Buy Baby" field trip

Residents, medical students, TYs welcome

Thursday, 10/23

Case and Peds Heme Onc Iron Deficiency QI Lecture by Dr. Yejin Yoo

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Friday, 10/24

Population Health and Community Conversations by Dr. Simal Ali

0745-0850 America 2525

All Welcome

Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

17 OCT: Boo Bash Trunk or Treat at the NEX

18 OCT: Katy Crandall

18 OCT: Staff/resident/family paintball

30 OCT: Kaitlyn Yeh

18 OCT: INOVA Sudden Cardiac Death Symposium

16 NOV: Ellie Dullea

22 OCT: Clinic Field Trip (Academic Half Day)

28 NOV: Anna Raymond

17 DEC: Case Report Hackathon

28 NOV: Erin Scroggins




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!


Looking for more things to do this weekend? Check out Rocktoberfest this weekend!


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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 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


NEW USU Teaching Opportunities

ICR Small Group Teaching/Pediatric Teaching Opportunities at USU

ICR Small Group Teaching Opportunities at USU

  • RESIDENTS, FELLOWS, & FACULTY

  • Introduction to Clinical Reasoning (ICR) is a longitudinal pre-clerkship course that teaches medical students how to collect and synthesize clinical data. There are two upcoming Pediatrics sessions on Neonatal Respiratory Distress & Congenital Heart Disease.

  • Upcoming sessions: 30JAN2025 (1300-1700 at USU)

  • All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to events

  • Please click on the following LINK to sign up


POET Round Robin Teaching at USU

  • POET Round Robin Teaching at USU

    • RESIDENTS ONLY

    • Pediatrics POET half day is a round robin format to orient USU medical students just prior to their pediatric clerkship rotation. Sessions cover Growth & Development, Ear Exam, Newborn Exam, and Shock & Weight-based Dosing.

    • Upcoming session: 7JAN2025 (1300-1700 at USU)

    • All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to event

    • Please click on the following LINK to sign up




Faculty Development

Research & Upcoming Conferences


Please reach out to Nicole if you have been accepted to any upcoming conferences.


Congratulations to Rebecca Morgis, Genesis James, Kayla Dahlquist, and Jacquelin Doman on their acceptance to COMPRA 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 

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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, sign, and have Maj Kolasinski sign the attached checklist when submitting leave.

  • Put Maj Kolasinski as first approver and Maj Jean 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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