Author: Joel Schofer, MD, MBA, CPE
Navy Medicine East Chief Medical Informatics Officer – O5/O6
Navy Medicine East is looking for a O5 or O6 to fill a billet as Regional Chief Medical Informatics Officer. The selected candidate will also function as a senior medical officer to the Chief of Staff regarding primary care issues to include Medical Homeport, staffing, and billeting. The position allows for clinical practice at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. The billet will be available in June but may be gapped to allow for personal considerations and so that there is no gap at the losing command. Interested senior officers should submit at least three PRT cycle results from PRIMS, a letter of intent, at least one letter of recommendation (but no more than three letters), a CV, and bio. Packages should be submitted to CAPT Brian Bowes (contact info on global address book) by COB 21APR17.
September 2017 Naval Postgraduate School Distance Learning MBA NAVADMIN
Here is the Naval Postgraduate School Distance Learning MBA NAVADMIN for anyone interested. This is how I got my MBA, so I can answer questions about it via the Contact Me tab or in the new Forum:
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SUBJ/EXECUTIVE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DISTANCE LEARNING DEGREE
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RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN announces application procedures for the September
2017 distance learning Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)
program.
2. The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) defense-focused EMBA is a 24 month,
fully-funded, part-time graduate program focused on resource management. The
program targets middle to senior grade active duty officers, lieutenant
commander (select) and above. Classes are delivered via online technologies
with synchronous interaction between faculty and students.
3. The EMBA program begins with a required one-week temporary additional
duty (TAD) in resident session at NPS in Monterey, California. The week of,
28 August to 1 September 2017 includes an orientation and a graduate level
course on management of teams. A second week of required TAD in-residence
instruction will be scheduled during the second year of the EMBA program.
Other than these two visits to NPS Monterey, students complete all
instruction from their home locations. A block of rooms will be reserved at
Navy Lodge in Monterey for attendees during these two visits.
Transportation by bus will be provided to and from the Navy Lodge for daily
classes on the NPS campus to minimize TAD costs.
4. The parent command of the student will provide official travel orders and
funding for TAD travel. If command funding is not available, students may
fund their own travel and utilize no-cost TAD orders from their commands.
5. Active duty Naval officers accepted into the EMBA program are integrated
into cohorts with civilian students. Typically, a cohort is comprised of
about 25 students, from which student teams are formed. Cohorts take all
classes together during the 24 months of instruction. Students participate
in online classes one day per week, approximately six to seven hours per day,
during regular continental United States duty hours. Students will receive
instruction via online synchronous educational software, with faculty
teaching every session in real time. Admission to the EMBA program is now
available to applicants in any geographic location, regardless of the number
of applicants in a location. Since courses are delivered via online learning
technologies, students must have access to a computer with high-speed
internet and audio-video capabilities suitable for web-enabled interactions
with instructors and students.
6. Eligibility requirements include an undergraduate degree from a
regionally accredited four year college or university, 2.6 grade point
average or higher on a 4 point scale, and at least one college-level
mathematics course. A commanding officer endorsement letter is required to
participate in the program. Department head or similar mid-level management
experience and strong potential for promotion are preferred. Participants
must have a projected rotation date no earlier than September 2019. The
Graduate Management Admission Test is not required.
7. Graduates will be awarded an EMBA degree from NPS and the Navy
subspecialty code 3100P, Financial Management – Defense Focus.
Graduates will also earn Defense Acquisition University Level II
equivalencies for several program management courses. As directed by
reference (a), officers participating in this program must agree to remain on
active duty following completion of graduate studies for a period of three
years. This obligation is discharged concurrently with any other service
obligation already incurred.
This agreement does not obligate the Navy to retain the officer on active
duty.
8. Officers interested in the EMBA program can visit the NPS EMBA home page
at http://www.nps.edu/emba for detailed eligibility and application process
information. Deadline for the application process is no later than 9 June
2017. Online instruction begins 26 September 2017.
9. Point of contact is the NPS EMBA program office at (831) 656- 2562/DSN
756, fax at (831)656-3630/DSN 756, or via e-mail at emba(at)nps.edu.
10. This NAVADMIN will remain in effect until superseded or 30 June 2018,
whichever occurs first.
11. Released by Vice Admiral R. P. Burke, N1.//
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Navy Surgeon General Opening Remarks To Senate Appropriations Committee – Defense
Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery provided the following opening remarks to the Senate Appropriations Committee Defense subcommittee during a hearing on defense health programs and military medicine funding March 29.
Chairman Cochran, Vice Chairman Durbin, distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to update you on Navy Medicine. We value your important oversight role and remain grateful for your support. Navy Medicine is a versatile, ready, agile and rapidly responsive medical force that directly supports the Navy and Marine Corps, America’s premier maritime and expeditionary forces anywhere and everywhere they serve our nation. I can assure you that the men and women of Navy Medicine – 63,000 strong – are working hard to support that force and provide world-class care, anytime, anywhere.
My full statement provides you with a detailed update, but, in the interest of time, my opening remarks will focus on our most important priority – readiness.
We have no greater responsibility than sustaining readiness, now and in the future. On any given day, Navy Medicine personnel are forward deployed with the fleet, Fleet Marine Forces, special warfare units, the joint force, and at overseas commands, supporting a high operational tempo and meeting the demand for contingency operations around the world. Just as importantly, shipmates are supporting the Navy-Marine Corps team in a variety of ways, including delivering care in our state-side and overseas hospitals and clinics, continuously honing their clinical and operational skills and training to provide life-saving and health sustaining capabilities when deployed to the operational platforms to which they are assigned.
These responsibilities set us apart from the civilian health care sector. We remain one of the few nations that maintain a sizable, ready-to-immediately-surge standing medical force to both support operational contingencies and rapid disaster response, helping to preserve America’s strategic influence in key regions of the world and strengthening relationships with our partners and allies.
In sustaining our readiness capabilities for the next conflict, new approaches to training, preparation, equipment and support required by our operational and deployed medical personnel will be critical to realizing high combat survivability as we witnessed during the most recent conflicts. These considerations are important as we move forward.
Skill sustainment of our medical personnel is paramount. I have previously articulated the important role of our military treatment facilities in ensuring our personnel have the vital skills and clinical competencies needed to save lives on the battlefield. These military commands are our training and surge platforms where we prepare and then rapidly surge medical forces when needed. They provide peacetime health care as one of several ways to preserve their clinical skills, but that is not their primary purpose. They are readiness and force projection platforms. Combined and integrated within Navy Medicine’s readiness commands and structure, our personnel gain both clinical competencies and develop required military skills in these commands and are prepared to rapidly surge when required.
One of the primary reasons for the high combat survivability rate we have realized is heroic work by our hospital corpsmen, the Navy’s largest enlisted rating. You, and the American public, can be justifiably proud of their tremendous contributions. Corpsmen are responsible for delivering initial care on the battlefield or in an isolated assignment aboard a ship or submarine far from any MTF. To this end, we are changing and improving the training of our corpsmen at HM “A” school in San Antonio. Our curriculum changes are focused on providing ready and relevant training that will prepare them to manage the continuum of care in high threat or complex environments most likely to be encountered by our sea-based expeditionary Navy and Marine Corps forces.
We are also continuing to leverage our private and academic partnerships in key areas such as trauma training at LA county and University of Southern California where we’ve trained over 3,100 personnel, as well as the trauma and burn program at the Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago in partnership with the Cook County Health and Hospital Systems.
Our readiness focus is also evident in our commitment to global health engagement. As I speak to you this morning, Navy Medicine personnel are deployed in support of Continuing Promise 2017, a civic humanitarian mission in the Caribbean, Central and South America, where they are working with host nation counterparts and delivering medical services. Likewise, their shipmates concluded a similar mission in September, Pacific Partnership 2016, a major multilateral disaster relief preparedness mission in the Indo-Asia Pacific area of operation. These efforts are complemented by the innovative work in our research and development labs around the world where we are addressing critical military relevant research priorities – including malaria vaccine development – to protect our forces now and in the future.
All Navy Medicine commands – MTFs, education and training, research and development, public health, logistics – are focused on protecting the health of Sailors, Marines and families and preparing for our next deployment.
In closing, America’s Sailors and Marines are the most highly trained, educated and specialized force in our nation’s history – and each is essential to the mission. The demand to keep them healthy, ready, and on the job has never been greater. At the same time, they must be confident that their family members will be well cared for when they are deployed. We in Navy Medicine have no greater calling than to ensure we are doing all we can to provide the best care our nation can offer and do all in our power to, one day, return home alive, safe, and well, those who have volunteered to defend our freedom.
We are grateful for your support and the confidence you place in us. I look forward to your questions.
O5 Promotion Opportunity Up to 75%!
Here is the convening order, where you’ll see that the promotion opportunity is 75% (up from 65% last year):
Here are the members of the board:
Navy Ends Online GMT Requirements
From Chief of Naval Personnel
WASHINGTON (NNS) — The Navy announced Monday that effective immediately, Sailors will no longer be required to log onto Navy Knowledge Online, Navy eLearning or My Navy Portal to complete General Military Training (GMT) for any topic except Cybersecurity as outlined in NAVADMIN 072/17.
Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Robert Burke said that during Fleet visits he often hears Sailors say online training is ineffective and impersonal. This effort, he said, is aimed at improving leader engagement opportunity, reducing administrative distractions and addressing Sailor’s frustration with current online training products.
“I want Sailors to know we’ve heard them,” Burke said. “This is about restoring an important leader engagement opportunity – an opportunity to talk about integrity, accountability and character, something today’s online products are missing. There is no doubt this approach will yield an even greater competitive edge for the Navy.”
While there are still annual GMT requirements, individual commands now have the flexibility to complete required training when and how they see fit. Existing training materials will remain on Navy eLearning and My Navy Portal, providing an outline for commands to use.
To maximize training effectiveness, units should look to conduct GMT in small groups, which will allow leaders to engage Sailors with meaningful discussion and focus on character, as part of the Navy’s continuing Fleet-centered leader development.
Going forward, the Navy plans to overhaul GMT and other on-line eLearning products to make them more engaging and personalized, but not at the expense of leadership engagement, Burke said.
While Suicide Awareness, Equal Opportunity and Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response training may require a more formal setting, and may benefit from supplementation by existing seminar discussion material available from “Chart the Course” or “Full Speed Ahead” training, other topics such as Records Management, Operations Security, and Privacy and PII, can be conducted at quarters, all-hands calls, divisional training using existing learning objectives and material to elicit discussion to the point that the leader is satisfied that the learning objectives are understood.
While there is no requirement to document the completion of GMT in the Navy eLearning Learning Management System, Commands are encouraged to keep local records. The Cyber Awareness Challenge V4 (DOD-IAA-V14.0) can be found on Navy Knowledge Online, Navy eLearning or My Navy Portal.
To learn more, please view NAVADMIN 072/17.
For more news from Chief of Naval Personnel, visit http://www.navy.mil/local/cnp/.
Transition from NKO to My Navy Portal on 14 APR 2017
Navy Knowledge On-Line is being retired 14 APR 2017 and the Navy is transitioning to My Navy Portal:
Here’s a Powerpoint that shows you the transition visually:
USAA Launches New Online Calculator to Assist with Changes from DoD’s New Blended Retirement System
Here is a link to an article about this tool:
USAA Launches New Online Calculator to Assist with Changes from DoD’s New Blended Retirement System
Here is a direct link to the tool:
Global Health Specialist Program
BUMED recently put out BUMED INSTRUCTION 6000.17 – Global Health Specialist Program. It explains the Global Health Specialist Program, details which billets/jobs are in the program, and how to get the new AQD.
If you need a refresher on how to get an AQD, read What are AQDs and How Do You Get Them?
Director of Surgical Services, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune – O5/O6
The Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, is seeking applicants for the position of Director of Surgical Services. The successful candidate will be a senior O-5 or O-6 in the Medical Corps, Nurse Corps, or Medical Service Corps. He or she will be an articulate, intelligent and team-oriented individual with MTF leadership experience ready to lead the Directorate and serve on the Board of Directors by 15 June 2017. The position requires a visionary who is skilled at the balance of keeping the directorate aligned with the Commanding Officer’s guidance while simultaneously managing civilian, contract and active duty personnel, multiple surgical departments, the main operating room, sterile processing department, a robust obstetric service, several training programs, while sustaining national accreditation and certifications.
The Director of Surgical Services is a full time position. However, there is opportunity and it is strongly encouraged to continue using one’s clinical skill set on a part-time basis.
The Directorate leadership consists of the Director, the Deputy Director, a junior officer Business Manager, and a Senior Enlisted Leader.
The position is open to officers of all Corps at the O-5/O-6 level. Individuals not already resident in the Camp Lejeune area will need to be available for a May or June 2017 PCS move, in anticipation of a full three year assignment.
The preferred candidate will have the following attributes:
- A track record of proven performance in MTF and operational leadership positions, including military, civilian, and contract oversight
- Significant organizational, interpersonal, communicative, and collaborative skills
- Proven record in program oversight and management, including fiscal stewardship and accountability
- Superior military bearing.
Candidates should be available for interviews (in person or VTC) in mid April 2016. Interested candidates should check this position description for instructions to be considered:
How to Resign Worry Free
Recently Navy Personnel Command (PERS) has started enforcing some policies that had largely been ignored, and I’ve heard a few horror stories from people trying to resign from the Navy. With that in mind, here is how you can resign without encountering problems. Assuming that you’ve already decided to resign, here are the steps you need to take to make sure the ride is not a bumpy one.
STEP 1 – Confirm Your Obligated Service Date
There’s nothing like thinking you are eligible to get out only to find out that you are not. Your Detailer is your POC to figure out when you are eligible to resign.
STEP 2 – Negotiate Your Date of Resignation and Terminal Leave With Your Command
When you submit a resignation request to PERS, you specify the month you want to resign. The specific date and how much leave you get is between you and your command, not PERS. You need to approach your chain of command about the specific date you want to resign and how much leave they’ll give you.
STEP 3 – Submit Your Paperwork 9-12 Months Ahead of Your Desired Month of Resignation
This has always been the required timeline, but last minute requests were accommodated. Not anymore! PERS has recently reminded people of this timeline and widely advertised that any requests received less than 6 months before the desired resignation date will be returned to the officer and not processed. Because of this, you need to make your decision and then stick to the 9-12 month timeline. In addition, if you get within 6 months of your projected rotation date (PRD) and have not notified your Detailer of your intention to resign, he/she can write you orders whether you want to stay in or not! Don’t tempt the Detailer.
If you are deploying and you’ll be gone during this timeframe, you need to get the paperwork ready before you leave. You can’t submit a request more than 12 months early, but you can certainly have it ready to go so that you submit it when you hit the 9-12 month window.
STEP 4 – Track the Progress of Your Request Weekly
The Navy is filled with officers who did not track the progress of their request and paid the price. Because your request has to go to PERS with the endorsement of your CO, it needs to go various places at your command before it is submitted. Realize that each stop in the chain of command is a potential place for it to get lost.
STEP 5 – Make Sure Your Request is Submitted to PERS
Most officers will have a personnel department of some kind that will submit their request for them, but just in case you don’t, here are the official instructions for how to submit the request from the PERS resignation website:
“Resignation requests can be mailed to PERS-834F to the address listed below, by fax, or sent in PDF format by email to PERS-834F@navy.mil. Email submissions are highly recommended and preferred. All requests must be submitted 9-12 months prior to the desired separation date.”
Address/Fax (Please adhere to PII requirements when sending documentation):
COMMANDER
NAVY PERSONNEL COMMAND
PERS-834F
5720 INTEGRITY DRIVE
MILLINGTON TN 38055-8340
PERS-834F fax number: (901) 874-2625
STEP 6 – Make Sure Your Request was Received by PERS
Again, from the PERS website:
“After sending your resignation request to PERS-834F, you and your current Command will receive confirmation via message traffic and BOL that your request has been received for processing. If you do not receive confirmation within 2 WEEKS after your Command has forwarded your request to PERS-834F, please call NPC’s customer service call center, 1-866-827-5672 for routing to PERS-834F.”
STEP 7 – Check to Make Sure There are No Issues Every Few Months
This will probably make the Detailers cringe, but oh well. It is their job to serve as your advocate, and I think you should touch base with them every two months or so until you have released resignation orders in your hand.
That’s it! If you’re looking for templates for your request, you can find them here.
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