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Plan of the Week: Sep 11 - Sep 17

  • Sep 11, 2022
  • 4 min read

Plays of the Week:


Play of the week goes to the Rees family who welcomed Baby Bhumik this past Monday!


Play of the week goes to MSIV Allison Denny, and Drs. Rob Crutcher and Amy Davis, for their assistance in the delivery of an extremely premature infant in the NICU earlier last week. Their additional help made everything go seamlessly.


Play of the week also goes to Drs. Brian Graziose and Sidney Zven, as well as their mentor, Dr. Lopreiato, on their abstract acceptance, "Use of an Infant Hip Model to Assess Skills and Recognition of Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip" to the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH).


Play of the week also goes to Dr. Elise Reddington for getting a champagne tap 🍾 during her IFH ED rotation!


Last but not least, play of the week goes to Dr. Allison Helfrich who went above and beyond during her attending week on the ward as an educator and mentor for the team.


Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Sunday, 9/11 Remembrance Day 🇺🇸

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Monday, 9/12

MR: Case & Type 2 DM Lecture, McConnell

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Tuesday, 9/13

MR: Case & Immunizations Part III Lecture, Rajnik

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Wednesday, 9/14 Marianna Caballero's Birthday 🎉

SIM/Skills: Suturing (Dr. Janssen), Foreign Body Removal (Dr. Patterson), and Abscess I&D

0745-0850

SIM Center (4th Floor Heroes Bldg) ***3rd Deck Team report to the PICU***

Medical Students and Residents Only SIM/Skills Google Classroom Link

Thursday, 9/15 National Neonatal Nurses Day 👶🏽 and First Day of Hispanic Heritage Month

MR: DEI

0745-0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Friday, 9/16

RESIDENT FALL RETREAT 🍂🍁🍃⛳️🪖🎖✈️⚓️

1000: Top Golf Germantown 1330: USO (4565 Taylor Rd Bldg 83, Bethesda, MD 20815)

Residents, Residency Leadership, and Military Advisors Only

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Dept of Pediatrics Staff Meeting

0745-0845

MS Teams

Staff Only


Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

18SEP: Air Force Birthday ✈️

14SEP: Marianna Caballero's Birthday

​20SEP: Broughton CPC

​20SEP: Bailey Howard's Birthday

​22SEP: M&M

5OCT: Noelle Molter's Birthday

23SEP: Virtual Regional APPD

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26SEP: Rosh Hashanah

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Announcements:


Meet our Rotating Medical Students!

All Staff Updates


ADM Compliance/Note Closures

  • ALL delinquent encounters (patient visits and t-cons) must be closed NLT 23SEP. Please go back in both your patient visit history and t-con history to ensure that all notes are closed by this deadline.


Patient Education PIQI Survey

  • The Patient Education PI/QI team would greatly appreciate your response to this brief survey for all residents and faculty who see patients in the WR Pediatric PCMH. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QLX2S3P


The New (Digital) Scutdog is Here! Printed copies will be available in a couple weeks, but until then please download the following PDF to your phone.



Air Force's 75th Birthday Celebrations (18SEP)

  • USU Celebration:

    • Where: Rice Hall

    • When: 15 September 2022 @ 1000

    • Uniform: OCP's/NWU

    • MC: TSgt Brill-Araiza; Guest Speaker: Lt Col Zachary Groover

  • The Department of the Air Force Tattoo Celebration - Innovate, Accelerate, Thrive - The Air Force at 75

  • The Air & Space Expo

  • The Air Force Heritage Memorial to Memorial (M2M) Ride

    • When: September 15 - 18, 2022

    • Where: Wright Brothers Memorial (NC) to the Air Force Memorial (Washington DC) routes vary daily


Transition to NEW Email Domain: @mail.mil to @health.mil will occur no later than 30SEP

  • Back-up current mailbox and save desired files from MS Teams to local share drives and desktops.

  • WRNMMC users will be migrated to MED365 E-Mail on 18 September. There are a few things we recommend that you complete prior to your migration.

  • 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:

    • Thrift Savings Plan, myPay at DFAS, milConnect, JKO, Citi Commercial Card - Government Travel Card, Defense Travel System, NRP platform

Resident-Specific Updates


Please reach out to your Block 4 rotation supervisors and let them know your schedule (Continuity Clinics, ARM days, leave, etc.)


Simulation Center Volunteer

  • The Simulation Center is up for re-accreditation from the American College of Surgeons (ACS). We are having a virtual site visit 28Sep. ACS is asking for a resident representative who is familiar with the services offered by the Sim Center to have a "virtual lunch" to talk about the learning opportunities and their personal experiences. I would need one resident and another backup, both available by zoom at /around 11:45 on 28 Sept. Please email Britt Bumgardner if you are interested by Sep 15th.


Help Improve the Peds Endo Curriculum at WRNMMC and throughout the DoD

  • Do you know what U.S. President had a pheochromocytoma? Do you know the highest recorded blood glucose value? I know your time is valuable, but if you can spare 10-15 minutes of your time to complete this survey, the answers to these trivia questions will be revealed!

  • This anonymous survey is an important part of my Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship scholarly project and is meant to gather information regarding the curricula used during Pediatric Endocrinology rotations. The survey does not ask for identifiers and participation is completely voluntary.

  • https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3SCH92G


PSU After-Hours

  • Residents -- please be aware that parents may call regarding PSU patients (sedated earlier in the particular day). If this occurs, please look up their sedation notes from that day to assist in any questions the family may have. If their concerns require redirection to the ED, please notify the family as well. Follow up any PSU-related questions with NP Susan Kline (susan.l.kline.civ@mail.mil) with a quick email after the conversation, so she can follow up the next business day. Please view the standard PSU discharge instructions below.


PI/QI: Next Session is 4OCT (Countermeasures, Step 6)

  • eIRB submission deadline is 15SEP

  • Please notify your stakeholders prior to the next meeting

  • Please view your project-specific template and assign the resident team lead

  • 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.

  • Reproduction and Endocrinology Module: September 22, 26, 29th

  • Adolescent Psychosocial Interview: September 27th 1000-1230

    • Contact Dr. John Berry (john.berry@usuhs.edu) if interested

    • The medical students get two lectures that morning (intro to HEADSSS and Adolescent-Specific care in the military system). The students then see a modeled HEADSSS exam and then break into virtual groups (2 per room) and take turns role-playing as the patient and provider in 2 different adolescent scenarios. The students then come back together to discuss lessons learned from performing the HEADSSS exam. Teaching in this session would entail facilitating the debrief small groups of 12-15 students.

  • Bushmaster: October 10th and 19th

    • Contact Dr. Sara Bibbens (sara.bibbens@usuhs.edu) if interested

    • Field exercise in Fort Indian Town Gap, Pennsylvania. The resident would have the option to get funded to drive up the night before and stay overnight in the barracks or could drive up early morning on the same day. MREs provided.

  • Introduction to Clinical Reasoning (ICR) “Neonatal Transitions”: Date TBD - usually 3rd week in January

    • Contact Dr. Brian Hughes (brian.hughes@usuhs.edu) if interested

    • 3 consecutive 60-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


Upcoming Conferences:

APPD Mid-Atlantic Regional Fall Meeting (Virtual): September 23rd, 2022

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."


AMSUS Annual Meeting 2023: February 13-16th at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center, National Harbor, MD

  • Poster Presentations

    • AMSUS is currently accepting poster abstracts at https://www.amsus.org/2023-poster-submission-information/

    • The first 100 approved submissions will be invited to present at the in-person Poster Session on Wednesday 15 February. Space is limited; early submissions have the greatest chance of acceptance. The submissions portal will be disabled as soon as the first 100 submissions have been approved—long before the 15 October hard deadline. REMINDER: Before submitting your abstract to AMSUS, be sure to get USU presentation approval through ServiceNow

  • Awards

    • AMSUS honors the contributions of outstanding federal healthcare professionals each year through the Awards Program. Fifteen awards are available. The AMSUS Awards portal is now open! Visit https://www.amsus.org/professional-development/amsus-awards-program/ to learn more about the AMSUS Awards and begin the nomination process. The Awards portal closes on October 15.

  • Registration

    • Registration rates for the 2023 AMSUS Annual Meeting will be posted on the AMSUS website by mid-August. The registration portal will open in mid-September. If you have any questions, please contact the USU POC for AMSUS, Ms. Tiffany Helling tiffany.helling.ctr@usuhs.edu

Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Conference 2023: April 27-May 1st in Washington, DC

  • Open call for scholarly sessions, workshops, SIGs, ancillary events, and volunteers

ARMY

- All Soldiers and DA Civilians require Transgender & Retaliation Training NLT 21 September 2022: view below for more information on how to sign-up

- Planning on going on leave? You can find the most updated leave forms here: https://www.nccpeds.com/army-leave

AIR FORCE

  • PT Tests:

  • Leave

    • Complete an updated Travel Assessment for any leave requests and send to Brittany Bumgardner or Dr. Zanetti for signature.

    • Upload the signed TRA to your LeaveWeb request, and designate Brittany Bumgardner and Dr. Zanetti as your primary and backup approver.

    • If you have a negative balance, submit requests to Col Rieker.

    • Ensure you are up to date with your Individual Medical Readiness

    • For Fellows: Fill out TRA, send to fellowship director/specialty chief for signing, submit leave to Maj Mary Hoffman and backup is AF personnel within specialty

NAVY

BUMED Directed TBI Trainings: 30 SEP 2022.


FACE TO FACE GMTs DUE BY 30 SEP 2022: offered weekly each Friday at NOON via MS TEAMS LINK:

https://dod.teams.microsoft.us/l/meetup-join/19%3adod%3ameeting_27de3bb1453341ce9b192b5d06c9d809%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22102d0191-eeae-4761-b1cb-1a83e86ef445%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22b1c056bc-1dbe-4566-9639-1f3423709926%22%7d


Month of August Online GMT Due:

-DON: Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH)


Operational Trainings POCs:

- For BLS/ALS/PALS/ATLS/TNCC Training Credits contact: HM1 Ogboru at onojakpor.g.ogboru.mil@mail.milonojakpor.g.ogboru.mil@mail.mil

- For HMSB/TCCC Registration and Training Credits contact: HM2 Borst (TCCC) and HM2 Roman (HMSB) at dha.bethesda.j-11.mbx.tacmed@mail.mil

- For TNCC registration contact: Dr. Richards, HEAT Dept, wanda.c.richards.civ@mail.milwanda.c.richards.civ@mail.mil

- For ATLS registration contact: Mr. Duggan, SIM Dept, at richard.w.duggan.ctr@mail.milrichard.w.duggan.ctr@mail.mil

- For BLS/ALS/PALS Registration contact: dha.bethesda.wrnmmc.mbx.resmed@mail.mil

- For GMT inquiries or certificate approvals, please contact your Directorate Training LPO and state your Directorate at dha.bethesda.j-11.list.nmrtc-training@mail.mil


GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

- All trainings are assigned to each Sailor via the Relias Learning Management System which will allow for timely and early completion of all trainings.

- You can access the Relias LMS here: https://dha20433.training.reliaslearning.com/

- If you do not see assigned trainings in your profile, please email your name and Directorate to: LT Talab at hosameddine.b.talab.mil@mail.mil

- In the event that you do not have a Relias account email LT Talab, NMRTC Relias Administrator: hosameddine.b.talab.mil@mail.mil


-Sailors are individually responsible for completion of all GMT requirements per the attached command and BUMED instructions. Assigned GMTs are due each month to allow for timely completion by the end of the Fiscal Year.

-Separate to GMTs, all Sailors are required to maintain current readiness certifications and reflected in FLTMPS in accordance with their rate, corps, and specialty codes to include:

BLS, TCCC, HMSB, ALS, ATLS, PALS, TNCC. Please see the attached applicable Instructions for further guidance. Identified personnel have been assigned through Relias LMS.


 
 
 

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