Aug

22

Women Leaders in the AFMS

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No surprise that women are play a much larger role on the medical side of the Air Force than they do on the “line” side; just the nature of the business, since women have traditionally been far more prevalent in healthcare than in other sectors of the workforce. It’s cool to see the military highlight women leaders in this series. The Air Force leaders highlighted:

- Chief Master Sergeant Marie Potts: Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Marie Potts is the superintendent for the 435th Medical Squadron at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. As the sole Air Force Chief Master Sergeant in a medical joint service environment that consists of five Army Sergeant Majors and one Navy Master Chief Petty Officer, her roles and responsibilities go far beyond day-to-day operations. As the senior enlisted leader, she ensures airmen are trained and equipped to provide world-class healthcare, deploy at a moment’s notice and are ready for increased professional growth and development, along with providing equal opportunities to soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines while ensuring each culture remains intact.

- Master Sergeant Susan Seker: Air Force Master Sgt. Susan J. Seker is the non-commissioned officer in charge of TRICARE Operations/Patient Administration at the 39th Medical Group, Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. Seker’s dedication to day-to-day health services management won her the 2006 U.S. Air Forces in Europe Outstanding Health Plan Management Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year award.

- Brig Gen Patricia Lewis: the first female Chief of the Air Force Medical Service Corps. Rising through the ranks to become assistant surgeon general of the Air Force and the chief of the Medical Service Corps, Brig. Gen. Patricia Lewis always refused to recognize her gender as an obstacle. Also includes a brief video interview.

Aug

12

AF Medical EPRs

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This might come in handy: the good folks over at Air Force Writer have begun compiling some examples of EPR bullets that Air Force Medics can use. So far they only have examples for 4A0X1 (Health Services Managers) and 4B0X1 (Bioenvironmental Engineering), but I suspect that EPR samples for the other AFSCs are in the works. Also: a list of useful phrases to incorporate into EPRs. They also maintain a good list of unofficial Air Force community sites.

Aug

9

AF Medic is OAY!

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The Air Force selects twelve enlisted members each year as “Outstanding Airman of the Year” (OAY), and the competition, as you can imagine, is pretty tough. This year, an Air Force medic named Tammy Shaw has been honored as one of the 12 OAY:

Tech. Sgt. Tammy Shaw…(a) noncommissioned officer laboratory technician at the base medical center, Shaw was recognized for her on-the-job leadership and job performance as well as her community involvement. One of her working accomplishments was to pilot the Department of Defense’ largest DNA collection site, 38,000 samples, with only a 0.02 percent rejection rate. Partly because of this, her laboratory was named “Best in DOD.” In addition to her working feats, Shaw completed 28 hours towards a bachelor’s degree in health sciences while carrying a 4.0 average. She also completed a Community College of the Air Force degree and became a nationally certified lab technician.

Interestingly, last year saw Airman Aubrey Linn selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Airmen, and she, too, is a laboratory technician. Chalk up another victory to the 4Ts!