Plan of the Week: Sep 9th-Sep 15th
- emily.ferraro
- Sep 8, 2024
- 6 min read
Schedule:
Date | Event | Time and Location | Audience/Notes |
Monday, 9/9 | MR: Case, Substance Use Disorders-Dr. Kandler | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Tuesday, 9/10 | MR: Morbidity and Mortality Conference (No Case) | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Wednesday, 9/11 | Sim and Skills: I/O, PIV and Art Stick
| 0745-0850 | Residents and Medical Students Only |
Dept. of Pediatrics Candidate for Chair Presentation: Patrick Hickey, MD "A Vision for Military Pediatrics" | All Welcome | ||
Thursday, 9/12 | MR: Journal Club, Dr. Simal Ali (No Case) | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Friday, 9/13 | MR: Case, Palliative Medicine-Dr. Edwards | 0745-0850 America 2525 | All Welcome |
Save the Date 🗓 | Upcoming Birthdays 🎉 |
12SEP: Journal Club #1-Simal Ali | 14SEP: Rebecca Morgis' Birthday |
18SEP: USUHS Grand Rounds-ADM Rachel Levine-Mandatory Resident Attendance | 15SEP: Dan Rochford's Birthday |
19SEP: Annual Pediatric Memorial Service, 1600 at the USO | 07OCT: Andrew Koury's Birthday |
20SEP: Resident Retreat | 16OCT: Keegan Paulson's Birthday |
25 SEP: Academic Half Day #3 | |
06 NOV: Chief Resident Interviews |
Continuity Clinic: Disparities in Health Care
THIS WEEK: Journal Club #1 (Sep 12-Simal Ali)-Clinical Question: In preterm infants, does the early administration of probiotics compared to standard care without probiotics affect the incidence of gastrointestinal morbidities and mortality rates?
Resident Announcements
REMINDER Don't forget to reach out to your Block 4 Rotation supervisors!
REMINDER Deadline for Submission of GME applications for the Joint Service GME Selection Board has been extended to 2359 on Sunday, September 8, 2024
NEW Georgetown ECHO Virtual Conferences (2nd and 4th Wednesday)
Join a community of peers and receive specialized guidance through didactic lessons and participant-led case presentations on complex mental health conditions affecting children and adolescents ages 9-21 on military bases and in surrounding communities
Annual Virtual Helfer Conference (Child Abuse Society)-September 12th and 13th
Free attendance for residents
Registration due by September 10th
Click this link for more information and details on how to register.
PALS/BLS/NRP: Upload training certificates directly to MedHub for ease of tracking (see attachment for instructions).
Meet our Interviewing 4th Year Medical Students!
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All Staff Updates
NEW COVID Vaccination for WRNMMC Staff Only: Starting 10SEP!
Location: Hallway next to the Allergy/Immunizations clinic front desk (Bldg 19, 4th floor) from 0800-1530 (the line will be closed at 1530)
NEW Updated WRNNMC Mask Policy
Annual WRNMMC NICU Reunion- Saturday, September 21 from 1100-1330
Location: Back of base picnic pavilions
JGMSEB Updates/School Year Plans
Rotation Contacts Updated JUL2024
The below attachment has the most up-to-date contact information for rotation supervisors
Remember to check MedHub and review updated goals & objectives for your rotations!
Clinic Updates
ABA Form Instructions: Thank you to Dr. Coskun for creating the below instructions on how to complete ABA forms correctly!
Adolescent Referrals: See the attachments for details for adolescent clinic referrals and switching PCMs to the adolescent clinic
Gen Peds Go-By: Created by McKenzie Bowling to help you survive summer well-visit season!
Adding patients to your continuity panel? Complete the form below and send to lisa.m.smith132.civ@health.mil from your military email.
To make a change to your clinic schedule or schedule continuity patient appointments email Blue Team Administrator: Ms. Alyssa Gallishaw-Wiggins (alyssa.gallishaw-wiggins.ctr@health.mil) and cc Emily and Dr. Carr.
PI/QI Reminders
Due-Outs: (Prior to next Working Session, Wednesday 25 SEP)
- Assign resident leads for remainder of PI/QI sessions (Assign resident leaders to all sessions and update Google Doc NLT 11 SEP)
- Determine Key stakeholders
- Solidify Team name (update in the Google Doc)
- Begin data collection to determine the magnitude of the problem (Step 2)
- Work on your problem statement
Linke to PI/QI Google Doc: Google Doc
Educational/Teaching Opportunities
USU Teaching Opportunities
Clerkship Round Robin (recurring throughout the year)
Contact Dr. Brian Hughes (brian.hughes@usuhs.edu) if interested
Tentative Dates and Times: TBA
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. The students will move. You stay put and will deliver the same content 5 times to groups of 9-10 students.
ICR Module Small Group Teaching Opportunities at USU
Sept 17th 1300-1630: Developmental Delay ICR (Virtual only)
Sept 18th 1300-1630: Pediatric Growth ICR
Sept 23rd 1300-1630: Pediatric Issues ICR
Sept 24th 1030-1200: Adolescent Day - HEADSS exam debrief
Sept 24th 1300-1430: Pediatric Integrated Cases
Please use the link to sign up
Questions? Email Dr. Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu)
POET Round Robin Teaching at USU
POET week Pediatrics half day is a round robin format to orient USU medical students just prior to their pediatric clerkship rotation.
Upcoming sessions: 18DEC2024, 30APR2025, and 27AUG202 (1300-1700 at USU)
All teaching materials and PPTs are provided to instructor prior to events
Please email Dr. Wido (meaghan.wido@usuhs.edu) if interseted
USU Health Professions Education Sessions and Application Instructions
Thursday, Sept 19, 2024 from 12-1 p.m. ET
https://meet.google.com/uba-xkiu-jku
Join by phone
(US) +1 470-485-9320 PIN: 491 913 748#
Thursday, Oct 3, 2024 from 8-9 p.m. ET
https://meet.google.com/tdf-spjr-ogm
Join by phone
(US) +1 470-310-1163 PIN: 819 307 288#
Faculty Development
Register for all courses at this website: http://fac-dev.usuhs.edu/
Research & Upcoming Conferences
Agenda for the 2024 AAP Section on Uniformed Services Program (September 29th in Orlando, FL)
If you were recently published, send a copy of your paper Emily to be included in the POW!
Community Pediatrics Updates:
Teddy Bear Clinic: Mark your calendars! The annual Teddy Bear Clinic will be held September 14th from 0930-1130 at thr National Museum of Health and Medicine. Reach out to Kevin Westbrook if interested!
ARMY- NEW ACFT Sign-Ups Live!
Army ACFT will be held OCT 28-NOV 2!
Army PGY-1s: MAJ Saira Ahmed will be covering down as PGY-1 Advisor during the absence of LTC Williams. Please direct all leave requests in IPPS-A to MAJ Ahmed.
Army Leave
Current leave process
Please send email to Emily and Military Advisor notifying of specific leave requests
Please use IPPS-A for all leave/absence requests; go to https://myaccess.dmdc.osd.mil/identitymanagement/app/login and login with your CAC
Make sure you change your email in order to receive email notifications -> My Profile -> My Current Profile -> down arrow next to name -> Personal Details -> Contact Details
Submit leave
Submit Leave to your specific Military Advisor
Click My Absences in the home page
Complete the appropriate information, an example of chargeable leave is below:
Absence Type: 1-Chargeable Absence
Absence Name: Absence
Absence Reason: 01- Annual (Ordinary) Absence and complete the remainder of the page
Enter Start and End Dates
For supervisor ID: direct it to your ARMY ADVISOR
Complete address information with the location of where you are going
Click submit
See the powerpoint below for instructions
AIR FORCE
SAPR/Suicide Prevention Training Dates
October 4th @ 1300-1500 in Clark Auditorium
Each member must register in the AFDW Course Registration system (Relias Authentication (reliaslearning.com)) for validation and tracking. You can find this class under Air Force SAPR and Suicide Prevention Training FY24 or USAF-SAPR-SP-FY24. This is where you will need to sign up for which class you will be attending. After you complete the course, you will show as compliant in myLearning (Air Force myLearning (af.mil) ) and receive a completion certificate.
Leave:
Please complete and sign the attached checklist when submitting leave.
Put Dr. Zanetti as 1st Approver, and email checklist to both.
For the checklist - When out of training these are items that will result in leave not being approved. I will NOT be rejecting leave, but if there are things overdue we need a plan to get updated. If you have a lot of overdue items and you are doing OCONUS or leave requiring commanders signature this could cause issues, but we’ll address that if it comes up.
Here’s how you should answer Checklist:
1 – in JKO ensure that your annual cyberawareness, Hippa, level 1 antiterrorism training are done
2- Check your IMR and ensure all green https://asimsimr.health.mil/imr/myIMR.aspx if not use comment box to write what is not up to date and plan
3 – TR closeouts are end of the academic year 30June
4 – N/A
5 – check myfss for next PT Test date https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/usaf-fitness-management
6 – this is your birth month
7 – N/A
NAVY
Brag Sheet/CV:
Send your brag sheet/CV to Dr. Hepps NLT 01SEP
Leave:
Dr. Ferrara will approve leave in NSIPS
When submitting leave, please email Dr. Ferrara and Chief Resident
Chief Resident will send email confirming that dates have been approved
Leave & Liberty Divisional Readiness LPO: 4th Div LPO- HM2 Mariavicka Sanchez- Responsible for DMS, which includes Pediatrics https://wrnmmc-intranet.health.mil/sites/TNT/NMSD/SitePages/4th%20Division.aspx
(hover over 4th Division tab)
2024 Training Schedule:
All Trainings are assigned to each Sailor and tracked via the Relias LMS at https://dha20433.training.reliaslearning.com/

Play of the Week:
Play of the Week: Goes to Dr. Sebastian Lara (former chief and general pediatrician extraordinaire) for his promotion to CDR! Congratulations, sir!
Please reach out to Emily at emily.ferraro@nccpeds.com or emily.m.ferraro2.mil@health.mil with any questions or concerns.
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