by
Kirsten Brown
Hospital Day is here, when 30
hospitals from all over the country descend upon the campus to
compete for OU-COM students. On March 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
representatives from each hospital will have informational
booths and kiosks showcasing their medical education programs in
the Convocation Center.
Fourteen
CORE hospitals and 16 from outside the CORE will contend for
prospective students, interns and residents, says
Judith Edinger,
director of academic affairs.
This year’s Hospital Day marks
the first time in several years that hospitals outside the CORE
system will participate in the event.
This fair is exclusively for
OU-COM students.
“There is a registration
process,” Edinger says. “The students will get nametags so that
people will know who they are.”
“All medical schools do this —
at least, all the osteopathic medical schools do,” says Edinger.
“It’s a great opportunity for hospitals to talk to first- and
second-year students.”
In addition to their booths,
says Joanne Bray, M.B.A., coordinator of clinical
competency assessment, in the past some representatives have
brought students
or residents to talk to our
students.
“It had been sort of a closed
event for just the CORE hospitals,” Edinger says, “and now we’ve
opened it up to all the osteopathic hospitals, as well as other
hospitals within the state.”
In the past, other hospitals
had regularly attended Hospital Day, Edinger adds.
“Then, when we instituted the
CORE about a decade ago, we decided to just limit it to CORE
hospitals,” she explains. “We began to have it on the Irvine
Bricks. But, then we decided to open it up again, and that’s why
we’ll be in the Convocation Center, on the outer ring.”
Among those additional
hospitals are Toledo Hospital, Providence Hospital, Appalachian
Osteopathic Postgraduate Training Institute Consortium, Bay
Regional Medical Center, Garden City Hospital, Our Lady of
Bellefonte Hospital, Highlands Regional Medical Center, United
Hospital Center, Carilion Medical Center, Aultman Hospital,
Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, Ingham Regional Medical Center
and Charleston Area Medical Center.
To impress their programs upon
the minds of the students, representatives will also be handing
out numerous giveaways.
“You can get a year’s supply of
pens and sticky pads this way,” Edinger says.
Students who visit all 14 CORE
hospitals and receive each hospital’s initials on their
registration card will qualify for door prizes.
“The hospitals bring really
nice gifts for the door prizes; they’ll get golf shirts —and
last year there was even a leather briefcase,” Edinger adds.
Attending CORE and associate
hospitals are O’Bleness Memorial Hospital, Southern Ohio Medical
Center, Grandview Hospital and Medical Center, Doctors Hospital
of Columbus, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, St. John West
Shore Hospital, Firelands Regional Medical Center, South Pointe
Hospital, Doctors Hospital of Stark County, St. Joseph Health
Center, Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital, St. Elizabeth Health
Center, Summa Family Medicine and MetroHealth Medical Center.
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News for
the week of
March 20
– March 25
