Virtual Healthcare Management Course – August 8-11, 2022
Who: First-time clinical supervisors (Medical Corps is limited to 6 seats)
What: Healthcare Management Course
When: Aug 8-11, 2022 (Virtual)
Where: Blended learning with ten online modules followed by the virtual class hosted by JMESI instructors
Course Description: The JMESI Healthcare Management Course is a tri-Service training event designed for first-time clinical supervisors. The course provides attendees with the administrative tools to successfully manage their clinical areas. Topics discussed include the following: Civilian Personnel, Contracting, Budgeting, Quality Management, tools available through the TRICARE Operations Center, Efficient Scheduling and Utilization Management, and more. Panel discussions allow the clinicians to ask direct questions and receive first-hand answers regarding management tools and practices that can impact the military healthcare management arena. Attendees participate in hands-on training with clinic administrative tools.
Prospective applicants should provide their name, rank, position title, work address, and work phone to CAPT Rhett Barrett (contact in the global) NLT Friday, May 20, 2022.
Navy Medicine Force Development Center Newsletter
On behalf of the Naval Medical Force Development Center (NMFDC), please see the attached April 2022 NMFDC Newsletter:
This month’s newsletter:
- Clarifies the commonly used term “Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA)”
- Showcases the KSA-related tools for Navy Medicine personnel
- Highlights the KSA-related governance bodies
- Presents the NMFDC “Graphic of the Month”
- Spotlights the recent Operational Medicine Clinical Community readiness improvement initiatives
- Includes information about the recently signed Health Affairs Memorandum outlining Joint KSA Program Management Office responsibilities
Please feel free to share this newsletter with other relevant Navy Medicine stakeholders and those interested in the NMFDC’s efforts.
Very Respectfully,
The Naval Medical Force Development Center
Finance Friday Articles
- A Stock is Not an Index
- Best Practices in Investing — How to Make Your Money Grow
- Falling Hard (this very brief article is exactly why I don’t invest in individual stocks, sectors, etc. and just stick to boring total market index funds)
- Fending Off Inflation
- Look Before Leaping Into Retirement
- Physician Early Retirement: Keys to the FIRE
- The Four-Quadrant Model of Real Estate Investing
- The Pros and Cons of Market-Cap-Weighted Indexing
- Top 5 Reasons to Work after Attaining Financial Independence
- Trust Issues
- Vanguard’s investment and economic outlook: May 2022
- When Cash is King
Navy American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Resident Paper Competition – Abstracts Due 15 JUN
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2022
What: 2023 American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Resident Paper Navy state competition
Where: Uniformed Services University Trauma Day
When: 24 August 2022
This competition is open to all Navy surgical residents, surgical specialty residents, and trauma fellows (including FTOS). Medical students are not eligible to compete.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
–Abstracts should describe original research on any aspect of trauma care. (Emergency general surgery papers will not be accepted.)
–Abstracts may be up to three (3) pages in length and include embedded images; however, short form abstracts will also be accepted during the initial Navy phase of competition.
–Papers may have been previously presented, but cannot be published prior to March 2023 if selected for the National competition.
The Navy competition will be held during USU Trauma Day on 24 August 2022 in Bethesda, MD. Participants will be notified by 1 JUL 2022.
One basic science laboratory research paper and one clinical investigation paper will be chosen to represent the Navy at the Military Region XIII competition that will be held at the Excelsior Surgical Society Meeting preceding the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in San Diego, California in October 2022. The winner of the Military Region XIII competition will present at the National competition during the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Annual Meeting in March 2022.
Submit abstracts via email to both: CAPT Travis Polk and CDR Matthew J. Bradley (contact in the global) by 15 JUN 2021.
Additional details may be found at: https://www.facs.org/quality-programs/trauma/about-trauma/trauma-papers
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