Call for Medical Corps Career Development Board Assistant Program Manager – O4-O6
The Medical Corps Chief recently signed the Medical Corps Career Development Board (MC CDB) policy. I’m the MC CDB Program Manager, but per the policy I need an Assistant Program Manager. The duties of the Assistant Program Manager include:
- Manages the electronic/online resources ensuring all material is current and all necessary personnel have access.
- Assists the MC CDB Program Manager in keeping all training resources current and standardized.
- Obtains and distributes dial-in information for the periodic teleconferences with the Command MC CDB Coordinators. Submits attendance and draft minutes to the MC CDB Program Manager.
- Assists in monitoring MC CDB evaluation surveys for trends and opportunities for improvement and provides feedback to the MC CDB Program Manager.
- Performs other duties as requested by the MC CDB Program Manager.
If you are interested in serving as the MC CDB Assistant Program Manager, please send me your CV, military bio, and letter of intent at Joel.M.Schofer.mil < at > mail.mil by COB Friday, 26 APR.
GI Bill Transferability Window is Closing – Don’t Miss Out!
The Department of Defense released changes to department policy on the transfer by service members in the Uniformed Services of “Post-9/11 GI Bill” education benefits to eligible family members, July 2018.
As a reminder, effective July 12, 2019, any Sailor who has more than 16 years of total service will no longer be eligible to transfer education benefits to their dependents. Also, until July 12, 2019, an exception to policy allows Sailors with at least 10 years of service who are unable to serve four additional years, due to statute or standard policy, to transfer their education benefits to dependents if they agree to serve the maximum time authorized. For example, enlisted Sailors within four years of high year tenure or officers within four years of their statutory limit of service are eligible. Purple Heart recipients are exempt to this policy change.
For detailed information on transferring Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits and the exception to policy, read NAVADMIN 236/18.
Questions? Contact the NPC GI Bill office.
Transitional Year Program Director Position at NMCP
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) is looking for a new Program Director for their Transitional Year Internship. The desired report date is June 1, 2019, but there may be some flexibility for the right candidate.
Applicants need to be in their PCS window and should either have orders to NMCP or discuss the assignment with their Detailer before applying. The deadline for applications is April 26th, but prospective applicants should relay their intent to apply to CDR Chong “Jay” Choe (contact info is in the global) no later than April 19, 2019.
Here is the vacancy announcement:
Vacancy Announcement – NMCP Transitional Year Internship PD
Here are my CV, LOI, and bio templates.
Finance Friday Articles
Here are this week’s articles:
Are Timeshares Worth The Money In The Long Run?
Debt Free by Forty: Why I Chose to Pay Off My Mortgage
How To Become Wealthy On A High Income
How to Keep Track of Your Net Worth: Review of Personal Capital
How to Manage Your Money: 3 Principles from JL Collins
The Doctors Guide to Thriving in Locum Tenens
The Long-Term Cost of Investing in the Wrong Index Fund
The Second Million – Why the Rich Get Richer
What’s Keeping You from Financial Freedom?
Yield Curve Inversion: Eight Reasons Why I’m Not Worried Yet
Health Care Transition Looks to Improve Processes for Wartime Missions, Beneficiaries
Here’s a link to this DoD article about the changes we’re all in the middle of:
Health Care Transition Looks to Improve Processes for Wartime Missions, Beneficiaries
National Capital Consortium Anesthesia Residency Program Director
Here’s the call for those interested in this position:
Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) Call for Abstracts and Presenters
The 128th Annual AMSUS meeting will be held at the Gaylord National Harbor, 26 December 2019. The theme of this year’s AMSUS continuing education meeting is “Transforming Healthcare through Partnership and Innovation”. This meeting provides a neutral platform for military, academia, industry and civilian health professionals to share successful ethical, and optimal professional healthcare practices and research findings and outcomes.
The call for meeting abstracts including panel sessions, lectures and posters has opened and healthcare providers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract to present the current and planned best practices of their clinics and departments. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Improving Health: The Art and Science of Medicine and Surgery – these clinically relevant presentations encompass the entire spectrum of care delivered by physicians, nurses, allied health personnel and healthcare extenders
- Leadership in Healthcare, Global Health, Operational Readiness and Humanitarian Support – topics include but are not limited to leading during a changing healthcare landscape, global health, operational readiness and training of medical forces, natural disaster response, family readiness, patient transport and transfer
outcomes/needs - Trauma Care, Behavioral Health, and TBI – the latest research in trauma and casualty care, behavioral health and traumatic brain injury (TBI)
- Advances in the Delivery of Healthcare – these presentations highlight the
increasing complexity of healthcare administration and business operations
while providing leading edge solutions in areas such as: health IT, medical
logistics, the business of healthcare, HR talent management and shared
services
Follow instructions for submission guidance attached. All abstracts must be submitted online by 3 June 2019 and are required to meet CME/CE accreditation standards to be accepted. Presentations should be free of commercial bias and approved through local COC and PAO.
Here are the forms:
At 1-Year Mark, College of Leadership and Ethics Officials Talk about Teaching Officers How to Lead — Plus What They are Reading
Here’s a link to the full article, but the takeaways for us are:
Q: If I’m a mid-level Navy manager, what are the three things I need to know to improve my leadership skills right now?
Klein: What I would say to any midlevel officer or middle manager is, to be a good leader, self-awareness is key to almost everything else you do.
Leaders have to influence, and to influence they have to communicate, to communicate they have to know not just who they are but how other people receive them.
There are many models that say humility is also very important, because you have to understand that you may or may not be the smartest person in the room. Many times, when we promote people, their thinking is “I was promoted because I’m the smartest person in this area.” Helping people train their brains that that might not be the case is incredibly important.
The third thing people need — that doesn’t come when you study how to fly a plane, or how to drive a ship or submarine — is empathy.
They have to have empathy to understand what they telling people to do – not just how it’s going to be received but how it is going to be executed. Understanding how people receive your orders is incredibly important.
A fourth thing would be understanding “command and control” leadership, as opposed to a more collaborative, thoughtful, transformational leadership ideology.
There’s a time and a place for command and control, and it’s usually when you are getting fired upon. It is a very industrial-age model. As people understand how to work with a team and how to develop a team, there is not a need to have a command and control leadership style 24/7.
Q: What are some leadership books that people should be reading now?
Andersen: The book that’s driving some stuff we are thinking about now is Finney and Mayfield’s “Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics.”
This book is about why do we do what we do, what does it mean to be us and why does that matter in what we do as members of the military. Because senior leaders have to be able to answer the question — and to drive the message on — why is this job worth your time, your energy, your sweat and maybe your blood.
Klein: I would tell you that “Humility Is the New Smart” by Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig, reinforces the need for humility. They talk about the need for humility, in the sense that you need to be realistic about what your strengths are and how you interface in this smart-machine age.
A classic favorite of mine is Carol Dweck’s “Mindset.” There are plenty of studies out there – and there are books about grit and the Navy talks about resilience and toughness – and a lot of that is contained in this book about the new psychology of success.
Military Times – How to Execute a Military Move: Top 10 Rules to Get a PCS Done
Here is a link to this useful article:
How to Execute a Military Move: Top 10 Rules to Get a PCS Done
Prepared Statements from Recent Congressional Testimony
Here are all the prepared statements from the recent Congressional testimony about the FY20 budget if you want to read them. Both are pretty quick reads.
Senate Appropriations Committee
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