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Plan of the Week: Sep 25 - Oct 1

  • Sep 25, 2022
  • 2 min read

Updated: Sep 27, 2022


Plays of the Week:


Play of the week goes to Dr. Amy Davis and the Social Committee for putting on another great medical student/resident mixer complete with pizza 🍕


Play of the week also goes to Dr. Emily Ferrero and Dr. Zanetti for completing the Kensington 8K this past weekend (extra props to Dr. Zanetti for pushing a stroller)!


Play of the week goes to Dr. Noelle Molter for being invited to talk at the USU GWIMS Seminar on December 8th on "Gender Bias and Bystander Intervention: Continuing the Conversation".


Schedule:

Date

Event

Time and Location

Audience/Notes

Monday, 9/26 Rosh Hashanah

MR: Case & Common Peds Urology Referrals Lecture, Janssen

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome; please review the following articles prior to the lecture: article 1, article 2

Tuesday, 9/27

MR: Case & Scoliosis Lecture, Lopreiato

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Wednesday, 9/28

NO MORNING REPORT

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Academic Half-Day: Endo

1300: report to the Fellowship Conf Rm America Bldg Rm 4603 1500 (Residents Only): Heroes Bldg Room, 3rd floor, 3038/3039

Medical Students and Residents Only

Thursday, 9/29

MR: Case & GI Bleeds, Barnes

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

All welcome

Friday, 9/30

MR: Board Review, Bumgardner

0745 - 0850

America 2525 B/C

Medical Students and Residents Only

Saturday, 10/1 First Day of National Physical Therapy Month

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Save the Date 🗓

Upcoming Birthdays 🎉

5OCT: Yom Kippur

5OCT: Noelle Molter's Birthday

7-11OCT: AAP NCE

6OCT: Elise Reddington's Birthday

10OCT: Indigenous People's Day

18OCT: Rob Crutcher's Birthday

11OCT: Graziose CPC

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17OCT: Block 5 Starts

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Announcements:


Meet our Rotating Medical Students!

All Staff Updates


Annual Pediatric Memorial Service "We Remember"

  • October 3rd from 1600-1700 at the USO (4565 Taylor Rd Bldg 83, Bethesda, MD 20815)

  • Reception to follow

  • Zoom meeting number: 597 345 2914; passcode: 8dRzrN


THE FLU DRIVE IS COMING

  • Staff: October 11th

  • Patients: October 24th


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).


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

  • 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:

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

Resident-Specific Updates


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.

  • 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:

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

- 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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