OPERATIONS UPDATE

Annie Bustin - Operations Section Chief

The team has completed one full year of our new Training Matrix. It's really important for you to share your concerns, opinions and desires with the Ops Section or the Clinicians group so that we know if you really liked or disliked a class, or would like to see something else. We can't change this if we don't know about it. NDMS has added some new online classes. We'll be reviewing those and comparing them to our training matrix. If there is any repetition, we'll remove that class from the team matrix. That means we may have an opportunity for some new classes to fill in those holes. This is your chance to request classes on specific topics, so if you have something on your mind please tell one of us. These classes are for you and if you aren't attending one because you think it's irrelevant to your clinical practice on a deployment, then you're wasting a good Saturday coming to the training! So really, we want you to critique the classes and fill out the evaluation forms, go to the Clinicians group meetings before the general team meeting and see what they have coming up their agenda this year, or email Operations to plant your seed in our buzzing brains.

Also, we're going to start up regular Operations Section meetings like we used to. Since we're on top of February and there are many meetings already on the calendar, we'll start the Ops meetings in March. I'll post the date and time in the next newsletter, on the website, and in the DMAT CA-6 calendar. There are a lot of changes coming and you can be part of those changes by getting more involved with the team.