Author: Joel Schofer, MD, MBA, CPE
Finance Friday Articles
- 14 Financial Milestones Worth Celebrating
- A measured response to the debt ceiling talks
- Disability Insurance for Physician Couples
- From Maine to Ukraine: A Physician Finds Meaning in a War Zone
- Investing in Turnkey Real Estate
- Long Time Coming – 3 Economic Trends Confounding Investors
- The Liabilities of Success
- The Stock Market is Not a Casino
- The Stock Market Usually Goes Up (But Sometimes it Goes Down)
- Time to Prepare Your Portfolio For a U.S. Government Default?
- Vanguard leaders on the possibility of a U.S. debt default
- What’s the Best Long-Term Investment?
Continuous Medical Corps Symposium: Wednesday, 21 June 1200-1300 EST
The next Continuous Medical Corps Symposium will be on CVs with Dr. Servey from USU. CVs are used for almost all competitive positions and a well written CV shows the selection committee your accomplishments clearly and efficiently. To make the most of this session, please have a copy of your CV ready so that you can make the most of this session.
The session will be recorded and added to the Sharepoint site (once it is completed).
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No More Twitter Auto-Posting, So Moving to Tumblr
WordPress and Twitter couldn’t reach an agreement that would continue to allow my blog posts to automatically post to Twitter, so I’m moving to Tumblr. Follow my new Tumblr feed here:
Navy Updates Tuition Assistance Program
Here’s the most relevant portion of this article:
“Officers with a minimum of eight years’ duty in any of the armed services, including limited duty officers (LDOs) and chief warrant officers, can use tuition assistance or NCPACE. All other officers will have to wait until they are eligible for promotion to lieutenant.”
Lifestyle Medicine (LM) Week from 21-26 May 2023
Mark your calendars for Lifestyle Medicine (LM) Week from 21-26 May 2023. LM Weekis a global celebration of healthy behaviors and a public awareness campaign that focuses on the six pillars and the impact our choices can have on chronic disease. Each day will focus on a certain pillar, offering a framework for people to understand healthy living practices and take steps to better their own health.
May 21: Day 1- Stress Management
May 22: Day 2- Physical Activity
May 23: Day 3- Nutrition
May 24: Day 4- Avoid Risky Behavior
May 25: Day 5- Social Connection
May 26: Day 6- Sleep
Please share and ensure wide dissemination of attached education and resources with the military and civilian population. We hope you will join us in celebrating! To learn more about L&PM, on 30 May, there will be a L&PM Lecture Series presentation To join the Coalition of Interested and support L&PM efforts.
If there are questions the Air Force Lifestyle & Performance Medicine Working Group Chair is Col Mary Anne Kiel, via email at LifestylePerformanceMed@gmail.com.
Air Force Lifestyle & Performance Medicine Working Group
LifestylePerformanceMed@gmail.com
***Register to join the L&PM Coalition of the Interested!***
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A message from the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
MHS Colleagues,
Mental health care is a priority focus for the Military Health System every single day, but as May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I wanted to highlight the effort we are making to address this critical need.
Secretary Cisneros signed the implementing policy for the Brandon Act on May 5, with Teri and Patrick Caserta present. The Act, designed to help service members access timely mental health evaluations, is named for their son Brandon, a young sailor who died by suicide. We welcome this measure as part of our approach to suicide prevention and mental health and it was a privilege to meet the Casertas.
One of my personal goals is to do everything possible to eliminate the stigma that too often still inhibits our people from seeking and getting care. Mental health is health, period – and we need to embrace that fact and encourage and support people in need of this care. We are working to develop training to help educate those in leadership roles on how to support their people, to look for signs that someone is struggling and to enable them to get help. Efforts are underway to address the shortage of mental health providers in our system. We know the answers aren’t simple, but we are committed to finding them.
There is a wide range of resources available to help us all learn more about mental health, and they can be found here: Mental Health Spotlight. Please take time to learn about them, to know what is available and how to access them. Our collective success in improving mental health across the total force starts with an individual commitment by each of us, to learn as much as we can about this issue and how to put the resources we have in play, to demonstrate by our own actions and words the importance of mental health. We need to normalize seeking mental health care so it becomes as accepted as seeing a doctor for the flu or a broken bone.
As leaders of the MHS, we have a particular responsibility to help move these goals forward. I know I can count on you to keep mental health priorities in mind this month, and throughout the year.
Very Respectfully,
Lester
Lester Martinez-López, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
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