Plays of the Week:
Play of the week goes to Drs. Anthony Lucido and Bailey Howard for stepping up and helping orient a fellow resident.
Play of the week also goes to Drs. Graziose, Smith, Chokshi, Hisle-Gorman, who won the $25k VPR Discovery grant for their project involving the identification of factors that improve or are barriers to WIC enrollment, followed by focus groups to evaluate the final proposed intervention (food insecurity counselor for each region).
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Monday, 10/10 Indigenous People's Day | No Morning Report | | |
Tuesday, 10/11 | MR: CPC, Graziose | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Wednesday, 10/12 | SIM/Skills: Access Skills; PIV (PA Kline), IO (Dr. Rees), Arterial Sticks (Dr. Zanetti) | 0745 - 0845 SIM Center (4th Floor Heroes Bldg) **3rd Deck Team report to the PICU** | Medical Students and Residents Only SIM/Skills Google Classroom |
Thursday, 10/13 | MR: Case and Journal Club, Warren | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Friday, 10/14 | MR: Case and Ophthalmology Lecture, Ballard | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
I will be on leave from 10-14OCT and will be taking boards 13OCT. For any acute call/morning report issues, please reach out to the following:
10-13Oct acting Chief Resident: Capt Jack Goetzman (jack.goetzman@nccpeds.com)
14Oct acting Chief Resident: Capt Sidney Zven
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
17OCT: Block 5 Starts | 18OCT: Rob Crutcher's Birthday |
24OCT: Diwali | 5NOV: Lauren Schroeder's Birthday |
31OCT: Halloween | 6NOV: Andrew Warren's Birthday |
4NOV: Hanciles Journal Club | 9NOV: Lisa Sukenaga's Birthday |
6NOV: Daylight Savings Time Ends | |
Announcements:
Meet our Rotating Medical Students!
All Staff Updates
The new SCUTDOG is here; stop by morning report or the Chief Resident office to pick up your physical copy. You can also download the digital version here.
Morning Report CME Credit
There is a new sign-in at morning report for CME. Follow the instructions below. Once you are registered, the sign-in will be updated with your name in the drop-down list. If you have any questions/concerns, please contact Dr. Sam Rowe.
Instructions to sign-up for the new morning report CME series: 1. Go to https://education.mods.army.mil/navycme 2. Click on 'Activity Registration' from the menu on the left. 3. Search for “Current Topics in Pediatrics – FY 2023 WRNMMC". The activity ID is 2022-0803. 4. Register!
Flu Drive
Staff: October 11-21st from 0700-1500 Mon-Fri in the COVID Vaccine Site (Arrowhead Zone, Bldg 9)
Patients: October 24th
Pumpkin Decorating Contest
The annual pumpkin contest will take place on 31OCT by the patients. Each department will have one table, and decorations can be placed the week of 24-28OCT; decorations must be removed by 1NOV. Please e-mail Ms. Putney (sabrina.l.putney.civ@health.mil) NLT 17 OCT 2022 if your department will participate in the contest this year!
Aiding Families through Deployment
We are looking to create a set of resources that can be used to support active-duty families before, during, and after deployments, particularly related to the psychosocial effects of parental separation on children.
Please complete the following survey: https://forms.gle/3qG3GdkYUU6RA7Mc9 (if staff, choose "other")
In our two-pronged approach, we hope to further educate and prepare pediatricians for assisting families during these times, as well as create a resource for families. We hope that by familiarizing pediatricians with, and educating parents on, the known effects of deployment we will be able to provide an extra layer of support for these children.
AAP SOUS Newsletter
Call for submissions: interested in essays on personal experiences, pediatric or operational expertise, description of innovative programs, and artistic endeavors, including visual or written art!
The newsletter is a great way to showcase the wonderful work going on within the section as well as assist others in creative problem-solving as they work in the military pediatrics setting.
Send all submissions to candace.s.percival.mil@health.mil at your earliest convenience (NLT October 21).
Email Troubleshooting
Having CAC issues? The following guides here may help and save you a trip to the One Stop Shop
Once you have converted over to the new domain name, please make sure you update any accounts or subscription services that use your @mail.mil email address. Please make sure the following are updated:
Resident-Specific Updates
Please reach out to your Block 5 rotation supervisors and let them know your schedule (Continuity Clinics, ARM days, leave, etc.)
Annual Regulatory Training
Please take a few minutes to make sure you are up-to-date on Annual Regulatory Training (ART)
MHS Genesis Updates:
PI/QI: Next Session is 1NOV
Please notify your stakeholders prior to the next meeting
Please view your project-specific template and assign the resident team lead for each future session
Emails
BG Protocol: glucoseprotocol@nccpeds.com
Discharge Appts: discharge@nccpeds.com
Patient Education: patienteducation@nccpeds.com
WIC: wic@nccpeds.com
Educational/Teaching Opportunities
APPD AIMS (Advancing Inclusiveness in Medical Education Scholars) Program Application Opening
Program Highlights:
AIM Scholars programming on Monday, March 27th before the APPD Annual Spring Meeting, including
Overview of careers in medical education
Panel discussions
Speed mentoring
Networking with APPD leadership and members
Paired with a faculty mentor outside of your institution who is a member of the URiM in Peds GME learning community
Attend the URiM in Peds GME learning community meeting during the conference
Eligibility:
2nd year categorical pediatric resident or child neurology resident or 3rd year resident in a combined pediatrics program in good standing at a residency program that is a member of APPD
Underrepresented in medicine: as defined by the AAMC, "those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population"
Have an interest in pursuing a career in pediatric medical education leadership
Required to attend the pre-conference and spring APPD meeting
Complete online application
Application Requirements:
Demographic information
Curriculum Vitae
Short essay questions,
Why are you interested in applying for this program? How does it align with your future career goals in medical education leadership?
What specific goals or skill sets would you like to gain from this program?
What skill sets and/or perspectives do you bring to this program?
Letter of recommendation from your Residency Program Director
Letter of recommendation from another Pediatric Faculty Member at your institution
To learn more about the program, past cohorts, and complete application, click here. Applications are due by Wednesday, November 9th (11:59p Eastern). Notifications will be sent out by early December.
USU Teaching Opportunities
Clerkship Round Robin
Contact Dr. Sebastian Lara (sebastian.lara@usuhs.edu) if interested
Tentative Dates and Times:
5Jan2023 1300-1700*
3May2023 1300-1700*
30Aug2023 1300-1700*
Able to interact with students of the class who have their Peds rotation coming up in the subsequent 3 months. 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. Then there is a 10-minute buffer between rooms. The students will move. You stay put and will deliver the same content 5 times. There are 9-10 students per group.
Introduction to Clinical Reasoning (ICR) “Neonatal Transitions”: January 18th, 2023 (1300-1700)
The two cases that will be discussed in this ICR session involve an infant with respiratory distress.
Please sign up via the sign-up genius link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4CA9A729A3FBC43-neonatal
Contact Dr. Brian Hughes (brian.hughes@usuhs.edu) if interested
3 consecutive 70-minute ICR sessions with approximately 7-10 students in each group focused on discussing common clinical presentations in the neonate transitioning from the intrauterine to extrauterine environments.
Humanities Week
Contact Dr. Sebastian Lara (sebastian.lara@usuhs.edu) if interested
Co-facilitate a variety of multi-disciplinary health humanities activities. Past sessions include painting, comics design, dance, art of observation with National Gallery of Art, improv in medicine, narrative writing.
Dates: 6MAR (0800-1300), 8MAR (0800-1300), 10MAR(0800-1300)
Research Opportunities & Upcoming Conferences
Next SOCR meeting: October 18th
We will convene from 0700-0745, assigning a 15-minute block of time to any resident who wishes to participate. If there is more interest/need, there is the potential to convene from 1200-1300 as well, but we are preferentially filling the AM slots.
Please email Dr. Nate Kolasinski directly if you would like a slot!
Reasons to request a slot include:
You have an active ARM project but have not been in contact with the SOCR committee in the past 6 months - time to provide an update!
You have an upcoming research elective that has not yet been presented to SOCR - SOCR needs to sign off!
You don't have a second ARM half-day, but want one, and would like to discuss ideas or even submit a formal proposal - let's chat!
Upcoming Conferences:
Conference on Military Perinatal Research (COMPRA): November 4-6, 2022
The 41st Conference on Military Perinatal Research (COMPRA) will be held from November 4-6, 2022 in San Antonio, with the theme of "Periviability: Ethics and Outcomes."