REMINDER: Operational Medical Officer (OMO) Application Deadline 15 October
Please send your applications to be considered for the community as outlined as below:
Surface
Submit via the Surface Force Medical webpage:
https://esportal.med.navy.mil/bumed/rh/m3/m35/m355/Pages/SFMOApplication.aspx
If you send an email to the SFMO email (usn.ncr.bumedfchva.mbx.surface-force-med@health.mil), you will get an automatic reply advising you to use the SFMO webpage
Specialty Leader: cormac.j.oconnor.mil@health.mil
FMF
Specialty Leader: ellema.schollnberger@usmc.mil
Aerospace
UPDATE! The flight surgery application email box is back in service. Please send applications to USN NAS Pensacola NAVMED OTC NAMI FL List NAMI-FSAppCoord:
usn.pensacola.navmedotcnamifl.list.nami-fsappcoord@health.mil
Specialty Leader: matthew.doubrava@cvn75.navy.mil
UMO
usn.new-london.navmedotcnumict.mbx.numi-umoc@health.mil
Specialty Leader: richard.h.schreckengaust.mil@health.mil
In-Person Medical Corps Chief Call at NMC Portsmouth – 18 Oct 2023
RDML Valdes is coming to NMCP to deliver a Corps Chief’s Call with all local MC officers who are able to attend. He is going to have 2 sessions in the NMCP Auditorium on 18 OCT, one at 1200-1300 and one at 1500-1600.
2024 Military Health System (MHS) Conference Save-the-Date!
We are excited to announce the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez, is hosting the 2024 Military Health System (MHS) Conference! The conference will be held Monday, April 8 – Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland, Oregon. The theme of the MHS Conference will be “The Future of Military Medicine – Integrated, Innovative, Ready”.
The 2024 MHS Conference will present a robust agenda for DoD and MHS leadership communities. This event will highlight current and future-state priorities, communicate lessons learned, and provide a forum for collaboration and unity of effort.
The MHS has gone through significant changes over the last decade and continues to do so. This event is meant to bring leadership together for an exchange of ideas and encourage transparent information-sharing to increase mutual awareness of capabilities, limitations, and challenges. Please send an e-mail to mhs-conf@health.mil, if you have any questions, want to update your contact information, or want to be removed from this mailing list. We look forward to seeing you in Portland in April!
MHS Conference Management Team
September Navy Career News – From the Chief of Naval Personnel
Are your Sailors completing their Enlisted Leader Development Courses?
These courses will soon be required for advancement to E-6 and E-7. Check out the MyNavy HR Sailor-to-Sailor newsletter to see how to enroll in a local course!
See the September Sailor-to-Sailor here:
https://www.dvidshub.net/r/rgtqv8
We recapped your Navy career news for the whole month of September – other announcements from CNP detailed in this issue include:
– Navy Esports Team Seeking Applicants
– Blue Angels Call for Enlisted Applicants
– Commissioning opportunity through the JAG Corps In-Service Procurement Program
– Upcoming Event Dates and Deadlines
Opportunities to Voice Your Opinion:
The 2023 Workplace Gender Relations (WGR) Survey is live now until Oct. 20.
Go to DODSURVEYS.MIL to voice your experience.
If you received a letter from the CNO, use that ticket number, or you can look up your ticket number on the website. Don’t have a ticket number? You can still take an abbreviated version of the survey using your DoD ID number.
The 2023 Defense Organizational Climate Survey (DEOCS) window is live. Go to SURVEYSDRC.COM/DEOCS to share your view on your current command climate with commanders and DoD leaders. It takes about 15 minutes to complete. Deadlines vary by command.
FOR LEADERS: Print the S2S newsletter and take it to quarters, post it on your shop’s bulletin board, or share this email to ensure your Sailors are in the know.
For questions or comments, reach us on our social media platforms. Find us @MyNavyHR on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to have your voices heard.
– Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs
Medical Corps Retention and Exit Survey Ends 13 October 2023!
Esteemed Colleagues,
The Medical Corps office has launched a retention and exit survey. We want to hear from all MC officers to determine principal factors driving retention, both positively and negatively. Kindly request your advocacy in reaching out to your brethren Medical Officers.
Our goal response rate is 50% (1757 completed responses).
The link to the survey is https://navmed.questionpro.com/RBMC23
My video about the survey can be found on milTube (requires a CAC card) at:
https://www.milsuite.mil/video/watch/video/65089
I look forward to hearing from all of you!
V/r,
RDML Valdes
Navy Senior Leadership Seminar – Dec 11-15, 2023 (Online)
Who: O-6, O-6 selects or high-potential O-5 officers who are on track for executive medicine
What: Navy Senior Leader Seminar Online (NSLS-O)
When: Dec 11-15, 2023 (only 1 seat for Navy Medicine Corps)
Where: Online via the Navy Postgraduate School – Center of Executive Education
Course Description: NSLS provides senior leaders with an intensive five-day executive education program that introduces the latest “best practices” in strategic planning, goal setting, strategic communication, effects-based thinking, risk management, financial management, and innovation. Learning is enhanced using case studies, small-team exercises, practical applications, seminar-style discussions, peer learning, and faculty presentations. Participants will be introduced to subject matter experts within DoD and industry, to include insights from senior Navy leaders and academic researchers. The course is designed to prepare participants to meet organizational challenges in their current and future assignments, and to empower them to become more effective change agents and better-informed stewards of the Navy’s resources. For more information about NSLS, please visit:
Prospective applicants should send a CV and BIO to CAPT Shauna O’Sullivan NLT 1200 Tuesday, October 17, 2023.
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