Consider Taking This Hotfill – Senior Medical Officer Position – USS AS EMORY LAND
Here are some reasons to consider taking this billet:
- They’ve been trying to fill this for a while, so potentially a senior O4 could use this to advance their career since they’d be filling a senior billet. Having trouble promoting to O5? This could push you over the edge at the promotion board.
- Because they are about to draft someone for this if no one volunteers, you could negotiate for sweet follow-on orders. For example, “I’ll do this if you send me to ________ (fill in the blank) for my next tour.” I think that is a reasonable approach if you jump on this grenade.
- You’ll earn a warfare device that opens up all sorts of future opportunities for your career.
What: Senior Medical Officer Position, USS AS EMORY LAND
Rank: O5/O6
Where: Guam
When: AUG 2018 with training ISTOP 20-31AUG for SAMFE then to Guam.
Support of 2-Tender Rotational Deployment model, where one tender remains in Guam to support the submarine squadron and the other (AS F CABLE) is forward deployed to support subs on mission and provide maintenance/logistics to any forward operating vessels.
The SMO must be able to provide primary care to AD sailors (thus GMO credentials for non-primary care specialists). Additional medical staff responsible to the SMO: UMO, Sub IDC, and Surface IDC on board. Additionally the SMO’s leadership will assist in cases that benefit from an experienced provider who can determine which medical cases can be managed on board, utilizing remote host nation care, or which require ISOS MEDEVAC.
This is a unique and rewarding leadership opportunity. If you are interested please reach out directly to your MC Detailer.
Finance Friday Article Links
As many readers know, I write personal finance articles. I usually post them at the end of the month, but after this post listing everything from June I’m going to start posting them on what we’ll call “Finance Fridays.” In smaller doses they’ll be easier to read and enjoy. Here are this month’s articles:
Add Up Your Fixed Living Costs
Are the Thrift Savings Plan Lifecycle Funds Too Conservative?
A Simple and Military Specific Summary of How to Save for Retirement
Beware the Lump Sum: An Update on the New Blended Retirement
Calculate Your Required Nest Egg
Changes to the TSP Withdrawal Options
Do the TSP Target Date Funds Miss the Mark?
Get Your TSP Professionally Managed for $10/Month with Blooom
How Much Value Can a Financial Advisor Add?
Lessons to Learn from the Early 2018 10% Stock Market Decline – PDF Version
Take Advantage of Your Growing Wealth
TSP Fund Deep Dive – The Lifecycle Funds – Hitting the Easy Button
Stripes.com Article – Navy’s Hospital Ships Will Remain Afloat Despite Talks of Scrapping One to Cut Costs
There was talk of getting rid of the MERCY or COMFORT, but that appears to have changed:
Navy’s Hospital Ships Will Remain Afloat Despite Talks of Scrapping One to Cut Costs
Navy Releases New Parental Leave Program
From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) — Navy announced the establishment of the Military Parental Leave Program in NAVADMIN 151/18, released June 21. The new program increases parental leave and combines the current family leave policies into one. The Military Parental Leave Program also aligns the Navy with recently released Department of Defense guidance pertaining to changes about parental leave.
Under the new program, parental leave for the secondary caregiver increases from, 10 days to 14 days, and consolidates Adoption Leave MILPERSMAN 1050-420, Paternity Leave MILPERSMAN 1050-430 and Maternity Leave MILPERSMAN 1050-435 into the Military Parental Leave Program MILPERSMAN 1050-415 that will be published at a later date.
The program applies to all active duty Sailors. Reserve Sailors who were performing active duties, or mobilized more than 12 continuous months, and are the parents of a qualifying birth or adoption on or after Dec. 23, 2016 are also eligible.
The three family leave categories under the Military Parental Leave Program are:
* Maternity Convalescent Leave is a six-week (42 days), non-chargeable leave period for the Sailor who gives birth, commencing the first full day after a Sailor is released from the hospital following a birth.
* Primary Caregiver Leave is a six-week (42 days) non-chargeable leave period for the parent who gives birth or is designated with primary responsibility for caring for the child or children following a birth or adoption.
* Secondary Caregiver leave is a two-week (14 days) non-chargeable leave period for the parent not designated with primary responsibility for caring for the child following a birth or adoption.
Details about the leave periods are described in NAVADMIN 151/18.
Based on a command’s readiness requirements, members on or within three months of a deployment will normally have to defer executing Primary and Secondary Caregiver Leave until return of the deployment. Commanding Officers, in extenuating circumstances and where operational requirements allow, may authorize members to take parental leave.
Navy’s parental leave program supports Sailor 2025’s goal of removing obstacles that negatively influence a Sailor’s decision to stay Navy when they are looking to start or raise a family.
Sailor 2025 is the Navy’s program to more effectively recruit, develop, manage, reward and retain the force of tomorrow. It consists of approximately 45 living, breathing initiatives and is built on a framework of three pillars – a modern personnel system, a career learning continuum and career readiness.
More information on Sailor 2025 can be found at http://www.navy.mil/local/cnp/mptestratdesign.asp. For complete details on the parental leave program read NAVADMIN 151/18.
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fundamentals Course – 10-14 SEPT 2018 – Portsmouth, VA
The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) is excited to announce that
it is sponsoring its third offering of the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fundamentals course September 10-14, 2018 in Portsmouth, Virginia.
The course is intended for physicians that do not have formal occupational medicine training (i.e. occupational medicine residency or experience) who will be practicing in an occupational medicine clinic or have significant occupational medicine-related workload. The course will cover the history of occupational medicine, workplace hazards, risk communication, Navy occupational health programs, worksite visits, and available resources. It will include clinical case break-out sessions.
The NMCPHC will fully fund the students attending the course, including travel.
They are applying for CME/CNE and anticipate the course will be approved for 30.5 credit hours as it has been in the past.
NMCPHC will coordinate with the Regional Program Managers & OEM Specialty Leader to ensure course seats are given to those according to clinic needs, responsibilities, and assigned job requirements.
Please visit the NMCPHC Occupational Medicine Fundamentals Course webpage for more detailed information and student registration request.
Please read the above webpage carefully to answer your questions. If you still have questions not answered by the webpage, please feel free to contact the people below. Their contact info is in the global e-mail directory.
POCs for questions:
Course Director:
Lynn M. Flowers, DO, MS
LCDR, MC, USN
Occupational & Environmental Medicine Physician
Navy & Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC)
Course Admin:
Ms. Kimberly Little
Program Analyst
Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center
Temporary Work Around to Get the Executive Medicine AQD
The Joint Medical Executive Skills Program website is currently unavailable, making it difficult to get the Executive Medicine (67A) Additional Qualification Designator (AQD). As a temporary fix, they can manually create your profile in their database and update any information such as: education, experience, certifications, etc.
To create your account, they will require your:
- Name (First, MI, Last, Suffix)
- SSN
- DOB
- Corps
- Current Duty Station report date
- Projected Rotation Date
Also, here is a matrix containing information on which competencies you are required to obtain the AQD. It also contains information on how they can be fulfilled.
If you have any questions/concerns, I’d e-mail them here:
Director of Surgical Services at NMCSD – O5/O6
This file has all the details of the position, which is available summer 2018:
There’s an application deadline of 1 JUL 2018.
Here are the CV/BIO/Letter of Intent templates.
Senate Version of FY19 Defense Authorization Bill Disestablishes BUMED
Here is the Senate’s version of the FY 2019 defense authorization bill (S. 2987). If you’re curious like me, you take a document like this and search for key words that might affect your life. Take the word “medicine” for instance…
On page 304 of the document you find this:
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the date on which the Secretary of Defense establishes an operational medical force readiness organization within a military department pursuant to subsection (f), the Secretary of Defense shall, acting through the Secretary of such military department concerned, disestablish the following:
(A) In the case of the Army, the Army Medical Command, and any associated subordinate command or organization.
(B) In the case of the Navy, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy, and any associated subordinate command or organization.
(C) In the case of the Air Force, the Air Force Medical Service, and any associated subordinate command or organization.
Disestablish BUMED, the Army Medical Command, and Air Force Medical Service? Now that’s interesting.
This would occur:
Not later than the date on which the Secretary of Defense establishes an operational medical force readiness organization within a military department
What would happen to us?
(2) TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS.—Any personnel authorization of a command or organization disestablished pursuant to paragraph (1) as of the date of disestablishment may be transferred by the Secretary to the Defense Health Agency or any other organization of the Department of Defense considered appropriate by the Secretary, including an operational medical force readiness organization under subsection (f).
This is simply the Senate version and has to be reconciled with the House version. What’s the likelihood that something like this actually becomes law and happens? I have no idea, but the fact that they are thinking about it is certainly something of interest to all of us.
Here’s another article that discusses the medical impacts of the Senate’s proposal:
Senate’s NDAA admonishes DoD for failure to obey prior health reform mandates
Did Senate Panel Go Too Far on Officer Management Reforms?
This is certainly an interesting read by the Military Officers Association of America:
Joel Schofer's Career Planning Blog 