Free CME from American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Dear Colleagues,
Exciting news that is hot off the press—the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) has granted healthcare professionals within the Department of Defense (DoD) complementary access to their online 5.5 continuing education credit Lifestyle Medicine & Food as Medicine Essentials Course Bundle!! This includes the 1-hr Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine module and the 4.5-hr Food As Medicine modules. It is available to all DoD healthcare professionals in need of continuing education credits. Please share broadly with your DoD healthcare professionals that are associated with military facilities. This will be available until all the complementary licenses are redeemed.
To access the CE bundle, navigate to: https://lifestylemedicine.org/project/essentials
Then review the course information and register at no charge by clicking the “Register Now” button.
It will prompt you to sign in with your ACLM account information — if you do not yet have an account, you can click on “Create A New Account” which is a FREE option.
Then click on the “Register Myself” button to add the training to your shopping cart, then click Proceed to Checkout and use promo code ESS-DOD23 where you can fully register at no charge. (Note that the code is case sensitive).
Also, request access to our *NEW* Lifestyle and Performance Medicine Coalition of the Interested ACLM Connect platform to access all of our working group’s resources (this is replacing our former Teams platform). Follow the instructions on the attached document.
Wishing you and yours a fulfilling, healthful and peaceful holiday season! Thank you for all of your hard work in the field of Lifestyle Medicine! We’ll see you in the New Year!
Air Force Lifestyle & Performance Medicine Working Group
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It is time to start writing letters to the O6 promotion board, so here are all the posts about letters to the board in one place…
The question most people ask me is answered in these posts:
Should You Send a Letter to the Promotion Board?
Do You Still Need to Send the Above Zone Letter?
The bottom line is:
Pretend that you did not send a letter to the board, the board is over, and you were not selected for promotion. Are you going to be kicking yourself for not sending the letter? If the answer is yes or maybe, then send the letter. As long as you keep it short and sweet, there is no real downside.
Frankly, I think that when officers send letters to promotion boards they are often just making themselves feel better, and there is nothing wrong with that. You want to make sure that when the promotion board results come out, no matter what happened, you feel like you did everything you could to get promoted.
Letters to promotion boards have a new due date. You can’t send them the day before the board anymore:
Letters to Promotion Boards Now Due 10 Calendar Days Before the Board
If you know you are getting out of the Navy and really don’t care about getting promoted, you should read this post:
What is a “Don’t Pick Me” Promotion Board Letter? Why Would You Send One?
Have you been on active duty for less than 1 year? Read this:
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You now need to use your DoD ID number and not your Social Security number on letters to the board. Read this:
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You can now submit letters electronically:
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