Plays of the Week:
Play of the week goes to Lt Col Susan Whiteway who was selected for promotion to Colonel! A very competitive rank and a testament to her outstanding contributions as Program Director, Assistant Department Chief, and Assistant Chief of GME. Congratulations!
Play of the week goes to Dr. Jenny Bencze who was promoted to LCDR!
Play of the week also goes to Drs. Kristen Smith, Brian Graziose, and Sidney Zven, who was chosen as one of the winners of the APPD Mid-Atlantic region’s $1000 grant competition for “Food Insecurity and WIC Enrollment in the Military”. As well as, Dr. Emily Ferraro who was selected to give the APPD Mid-Atlantic's Spotlight on Innovation presentation on Religion in Medicine.
Play of the week and sincere kudos to several residents who came by my office to request help/guidance with ABA renewal for patients seen in PCMH recently. I hope I am not missing anyone, but thank you to Dr. Jack, Dr. Reddington, Dr. Mauro, and Dr. Graziose for going the extra mile for your patients!
Play of the week and kudos to Dr. Alex Mauro who recently completed an EFMP update for a very complex patient and included detailed and thoughtful plan of care for each diagnosis. Accurate EFMP documentation is vital to family readiness, and Dr. Mauro’s work deserves a shout-out.
Last but not least, play of the week to Drs. Lara, Caballero, Warren, who were compassionate and comprehensive while taking care of an adolescent patient. As well as the Peds Clinic, who called the family first thing in the morning for a follow-up appointment. These remarks made it all to BG Davis' office.
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Monday, 9/5 Labor Day | No Morning Report | | |
Tuesday, 9/6 | MR: Case & PIQI Working Session LCDR Bencze, CPT Bumgardner, CPT McMurray Award Presentation | 0745 - 0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome |
| PCMH Training | 0900-1200 | Clinic Staff/Residents |
| PEC Meeting #2 | 1500-1600 America Bldg, River Conference Rm 3558 | PEC Representatives and Residency Leadership Only |
Wednesday, 9/7 | Grand Rounds Frontier Neonatology: Providing Neuroprotective Therapy to High Risk Newborns in a Rural/Remote Catchment Area, Dr. Jay D. Kerecman | Room A2, Bldg A, USUHS and Virtual Zoom Platform Meeting ID: 999 6780 8867 Passcode: 7271775 | In-Person preferred; All welcome |
Thursday, 9/8 | MR: Case & Journal Club "Neonatal Listeriosis Presentation and Outcome: A Prospective Study of 189 Cases," McNamara | 0745-0850 America 2525 B/C | All welcome; please review the attached journal article here |
| Air Force Mentoring Session Speaker: Lt Col Jessica Bright | 1500-1600 GYN Conference Room, Bldg 9 (Arrowhead), 2nd floor (on the GYN side by Arrowhead Pharmacy). Door code 4268* - conference room at the end of C hallway) | Air Force Trainees and Staff |
Friday, 9/9 | MR: Ed/Reverse Ed | STAFF: 0730 - 0850 America 2525 B/C RESIDENTS: 0745 - 0850 Allergy Conf Rm 4105 | All welcome |
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
16SEP: Resident Fall Retreat | 14SEP: Marianna Caballero's Birthday |
18SEP: Air Force Birthday ✈️ | 20SEP: Bailey Howard's Birthday |
19SEP: Broughton CPC | 5OCT: Noelle Molter's Birthday |
22SEP: M&M | |
23SEP: Virtual Regional APPD | |
Announcements:
Meet our Rotating Medical Students!
All Staff Updates
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
When: September 15, 2022 @ 1830
Where: Audi Field Washington, DC
Website: www.usairforce75.co,
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
NEW Relaxation Room: have you checked out the Peds relaxation room in America Room 4569? The room has a massage chair, aromatherapy, and more! Sign up for a slot using the binder outside the room (see pictures above).
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.
Once you have converted over to the new domain name, please make sure you update your email on your NRP platform.
Resident-Specific Updates
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.
Library Website Feedback Survey
The library is conducting a usability study (PI/QI) to identify any pain points users may have with using the library's website. The library really wants to learn more about how users experience the site and ensure that it is user-friendly and organized in the most helpful manner.
This 2-minute survey is anonymous and designed to inform us of the tasks we should focus on in the usability study. The deadline to complete is Friday, 2SEP
Hospital Committee Sign-Ups
- Participation in hospital committees is an excellent way to make a difference in your hospital. GME input is critical to the success of our patient care mission. - Attached is a list and brief description of all hospital committees with a Survey Monkey link below the name of each committee. - Take a moment to sign up for a committee by clicking on the appropriate link and filling in your information. Please ensure you sign up even if you are already participating on the committee. When you sign up, be sure to double-check the spelling of your name and email address to ensure that leadership will be able to find you in Outlook. - You will have until 9/6/2022 to make your selections. If a committee has no more slots available, you will receive a message from Survey Monkey stating that the survey is closed. Simply return to the attached document and pick another committee. Your commitment to your selected committee is very important. Remember that committees can only have a specific number of housestaff representation, and other housestaff may not be able to be a committee member because you committed to participate in that committee. Understand that your involvement can make a difference! - The final list of assignments will be distributed on 9/7/2022.
PGY2/3s: calling for assistance! As you are aware, MHS faculty and trainees greatly value and depend upon Point of Care References (POCR) to make clinical decisions and assist in education. There are two main ones currently available in the MHS: DynaMed (DM) and UpToDate (UTD). GME has been asked to assist in defining the requirements. We'd like to see if the theme of "nuanced expert recommendations for atypical presentations or management beyond specialty society guidelines, algorithms, and/or published studies" is indeed what is important to you. To that end, we'd like a few examples from you where you found an answer to a clinical question in one POCR but not the other. Note that measurement here is whether or not the clinical question is answered in this circumstance. For the examples you provide us, the patient encounter and clinical question must be from August 2022.
Formatting: 1) BRIEF summary--less than a paragraph, 2) Clinical question, 3) Search in one POCR with link that answers the question, 4) Search in the other POCR with link that does not.
Please email the examples to Britt Bumgardner
PI/QI: Next Session is 6SEP
A3 Steps 3-5 should be complete; 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 for the remaining year
Emails
BG Protocol: glucoseprotocol@nccpeds.com
Discharge Appts: discharge@nccpeds.com
Patient Education: patienteducation@nccpeds.com
WIC: wic@nccpeds.com
Educational/Teaching Opportunities
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.