Medical Chief Professional Officer Clare Helminiak promoted to Rear Admiral (Lower Half)

Medical category recruitment ambassadors 
Medical category recruitment ambassadors are volunteers that have agreed to act as resources for recruitment related questions for officers interested in the PHS. Click on the above link to go to a spreadhseet containing information on volunteers' experience in current and past agencies, their specialties, and contact information.

Billet transformation FAQs from USPHS 

ACCESS PPAC WEB PORTAL, HOSTED AT NIH
     • Important tool for PHS physicians to access category documents and post comments 
     • Access is available to NIH and non-NIH employees
     • Non-NIH employees must first get NIH username and password
     • NIH employees use their NIH username and PW
     • New detailed instructions for accessing portal by NIH and non-NIH users, New! Posted 4/21/09
     • Detailed instructions for NIH and non-NIH users, Posted 9/17/08
     • Link for access after you get NIH password 

PROMOTION 101 SEMINAR FROM SEPT 21, 2007
      • Medical Category Issues , Lecture by RADM Rutstein, CPO, (PPT slides)
      • 2008 Promotion Guidelines , Lecture by CAPT Kopp, PPAC Chair, (PPT slides)

      • These two lectures available for viewing as two QuickTime videos by 2 methods
            What are QuickTime videos?
            Method One: from PPAC Portal (not this web site)
                • NIH Portal >My Communities > PPAC>Community Projects>PPAC
                    • See 5 most recently uploaded documents for the 2 QuickTime videos
                    • Or see “Documents” tab >PPAC Committees&WG>PromotionGuidelines
                • Video files can be streamed or downloaded
                • ContactCAPT Jeffrey Kopp to get access to PPAC Portal
           Method Two: from BestSharing.com web site
                •Medical Category Issues (includes discussion of promotion)
                •Medical Category 2008 Promotion Guidelines

                •Best Sharing web site password for these videos: ppac101
                • Takes from 15-45 minutes per file
                • Downloads the file to your hard drive
                • Top right quadrant has file description and “Download file” link
                • Click on “Download file”, if asked "download to disk"
                • After file is downloaded, double click on the file to run the movie

FORMER CPO USPHS CC PHYSICIANS: LECTURES
     • Lecturer: RADM W. Craig Vanderwagen
     • For: NIH Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense Interest Group Seminar Series
     • Topic: Building International Health Systems Capacity: Lessons from Iraq and the Tsunami, 05/19/2005
     • Archived videocast (this lecture and others in series) available to NIH employees
     • How to view videocast if you are not an NIH employee
     • RADM Vanderwagen lectured again at NIH again on 4/26/07
        "DHHS Concept of Operations for Medical Response to Disasters: Where We are Now and
         Where Should We be Going?" for the NIH Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense
         Interest Group
                 •See the lecture as a streaming video
                • This lecture series available (by interest group and date) to NIH employees
                 •How to view videocast if you are not an NIH employee