Questions about Naval Hospital Portsmouth Emergency Department

[DrMetal]

[I may just be getting bad gouge, I hope there's some Virginians here that could answer this quick ? ]

Can active-duty members/dependents seek emergency care at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth ED? I head that they're discouraged from doing so, and that the ED there is mainly intended for veteran's care. AD & Family are encouraged to go out in town for any emergency care. True???

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[IgD]

It certainly wasn't that way when I trained there. I've never heard anything like that at any Navy MFT. That sounds like bad information to me.

 

[DrMetal]

It certainly wasn't that way when I trained there. I've never heard anything like that at any Navy MFT. That sounds like bad information to me.

Yeah that's what i thought. My toddler's running a little fever this morning, wife wanted to take him in, one of her silly friends told her she couldn't go to the Portsmouth ED. (meanwhile I'm in SD)

Thanks!!!

(should I be concerned that responses by SDN members are faster than those of Tricare reps?!)

 

[BigNavyPedsGuy]

IgD's right, take the kid in.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

[I may just be getting bad gouge, I hope there's some Virginians here that could answer this quick ? ]

Can active-duty members/dependents seek emergency care at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth ED? I head that they're discouraged from doing so, and that the ED there is mainly intended for veteran's care. AD & Family are encouraged to go out in town for any emergency care. True???

Come on in. The NMCP ED specializes in STDs in dependent wives and 1st trimester vaginal bleeds. It is a Navy institution after all. 🙂 There are a few retirees but few "vets" that don't qualify for another reason.

 

[notdeadyet]

Come on in. The NMCP ED specializes in STDs in dependent wives and 1st trimester vaginal bleeds.

Does that require a fellowship?

 

[i want out]

Does that require a fellowship?

And its possible that when your there, you may be seen by a 4th year medical student who's attending will stand up from behind the desk, look across the ER at the patient, and say "yeah, looks about right to me" and then sit down and sign the chart.

When I was there as a med student, that was what passed for supervision. But then again a few of the 'visiting' attendings that were supposed to be supervising should have gone back to a couple refresher courses before setting foot in a patient care setting.

Just my limited experience with the NMCP ED.

i want out (of IRR)

 

[NavyFP]

[I may just be getting bad gouge, I hope there's some Virginians here that could answer this quick ? ]

Can active-duty members/dependents seek emergency care at the Naval Hospital Portsmouth ED? I head that they're discouraged from doing so, and that the ED there is mainly intended for veteran's care. AD & Family are encouraged to go out in town for any emergency care. True???

Ummmmmmmmmmmm.......No. AD and family members routinely go to the NMCP ER.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

And its possible that when your there, you may be seen by a 4th year medical student who's attending will stand up from behind the desk, look across the ER at the patient, and say "yeah, looks about right to me" and then sit down and sign the chart.

When I was there as a med student, that was what passed for supervision. But then again a few of the 'visiting' attendings that were supposed to be supervising should have gone back to a couple refresher courses before setting foot in a patient care setting.

Just my limited experience with the NMCP ED.

i want out (of IRR)

They used to stand up back then?

 

[IgD]

If it is the night before ship's movement and one has thoughts of self-harm Portsmouth's ER is a leading center of excellence for help.

 

[BigNavyPedsGuy]

If it is the night before ship's movement and one has thoughts of self-harm Portsmouth's ER is a leading center of excellence for help.

As is Balboa's

 

[NavyFlightDoc]

If it is the night before ship's movement and one has thoughts of self-harm Portsmouth's ER is a leading center of excellence for help.

So, true...and painful for all involved.

 

[BOHICA-FIGMO]

And its possible that when your there, you may be seen by a 4th year medical student who's attending will stand up from behind the desk, look across the ER at the patient, and say "yeah, looks about right to me" and then sit down and sign the chart.

When I was there as a med student, that was what passed for supervision. But then again a few of the 'visiting' attendings that were supposed to be supervising should have gone back to a couple refresher courses before setting foot in a patient care setting.

Just my limited experience with the NMCP ED.

i want out (of IRR)

I have to disagree. I spent a month there as a fourth year and was well and properly supervised by all the residents and attendings. And everyone seemed really on the ball as far as I could tell. Better than a lot of attendings at some of the civilian EDs I rotated through.

 

[backrow]

I have to disagree. I spent a month there as a fourth year and was well and properly supervised by all the residents and attendings. And everyone seemed really on the ball as far as I could tell. Better than a lot of attendings at some of the civilian EDs I rotated through.

NMCP supervision totally depends on the staff (like anything I guess). Some of the more notorious ones do just sit at the computer and hardly stand up, but I think the worst of this type has moved on in the past two years or so. Most of the residents are pretty on the ball in regards to supervising med students/interns, but if they get busy and you're one on one with a staff it can be hit or miss.

Long live the G-Bomb.

 

[J-Rad]

Yeah that's what i thought. My toddler's running a little fever this morning, wife wanted to take him in, one of her silly friends told her she couldn't go to the Portsmouth ED. (meanwhile I'm in SD)

Thanks!!!

(should I be concerned that responses by SDN members are faster than those of Tricare reps?!)

I wonder if this is confusion over the Peds Acute Care Clinic (in the Peds Clinic) vs. the ED. The former (incidentally, where a[n otherwise well] toddler running a "little fever" probably should be going instead of an ED...even the military EDs don't deserve that kind of abuse) is for dependents enrolled to the Peds Clinic at NMCP. In recent times, due to volume of patients, enrollment at the NMCP Peds Clinic was by invitation into a resident's continuity clinic, so not everyone in the NMCP catchment area is eligible for peds acute care (in the Peds Clinic. Those not enrolled at NMCP can get acute care at the branch clinics). The ED is for all AD and Tricare-enrolled dependents.
BTW, are you on EAD or on an ADT for training w/ HPSP?