Plays of the Week:
Play of the week and a HUGE thank you goes to Ben Smith, Sarah Cole, Emily Parsons, Joel Toro, Elizabeth Schulz, Topher Stark, Min Hwang, and Jamie Lewis for covering the inpatient services for our residents during their Fall Retreat!
Play of the week also goes to Dr. Brian Graziose and the entire social committee for planning a great retreat, along with Dr. Sarah Reynolds and our military advisors for a very educational first MMOC session.
Play of the week to the Block 3 Under the Sea 3rd Deck Team, who received kudos and high praise from multiple people this week, strong work!
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Sunday, 9/18 Air Force Birthday ✈️ | | | |
Monday, 9/19 Block 4 Start | MR: Case & Orient to Service | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Tuesday, 9/20 Bailey Howard's Birthday 🎉 | MR: CPC, Broughton | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
Wednesday, 9/21 | MR: EFMP Updates & Nutritional Anemia Lecture, Zanetti | 0745 - 0850 Heroes, Bldg 5, 4th Floor, Room 4008/4009 | All welcome |
Thursday, 9/22 | MR: M&M | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
| Candidate Recruitment Day | 0900 - 1115 Canyon Conference Room 4th Floor America Bldg | Rotating MSIVs Only |
Friday, 9/23 | MR: ABA Updates & Surgery Lecture, Walk | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
| APPD Fall Regional Meeting | 0900 - 1230 Zoom | Residency Leadership and Invited Speakers |
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
26SEP: Rosh Hashanah | 5OCT: Noelle Molter's Birthday |
5OCT: Yom Kippur | 6OCT: Elise Reddington's Birthday |
7-11OCT: AAP NCE | 18OCT: Rob Crutcher's Birthday |
10OCT: Indigenous People's Day | |
11OCT: Graziose CPC | |
Announcements:
Meet our Rotating Medical Students!
All Staff Updates
Army Ten Miler Shirts
A number of staff members from 3 West will be running the Army Ten Miler in Washington, DC, on the 9th of October. If you would like to support the runners, and for interested runners, please put in your shirt orders through this link: https://www.customink.com/g/zmq0-00cn-3z44. Options range from tank tops to long-sleeved shirts! Prices will depend on the number of orders placed. Orders close on 19 September to ensure early/on-time delivery.
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.
PI/QI Surveys
Survey for MICC Blood Glucose Protocol PI/QI Project
We ask for your help in improving the MICC blood glucose protocol here at Walter Reed. IF you have the time, please scan the QR code and fill out this < 5-minute survey regarding the MICC Blood Glucose Protocol: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1q7n4-Fs3HkgNkoWHszDhl4p8CjiJuqmaBU50acqtOl8/viewform?edit_requested=true
The Patient Education PI/QI Project
The 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
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
When: September 15, 2022 @ 1830
Where: Audi Field Washington, DC
Website: www.usairforce75.com
The Air & Space Expo
When: September 17 - 18, 2022 @ 0900 - 1700
Where: Joint Base Andrews
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
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.
PI/QI: Next Session is 4OCT (Countermeasures, Step 6)
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