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NEWS
AACOM awards recognize college
OU-COM took three top honors at the awards event held during the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) 2010 Annual Meeting.
Steve Davis, Ph.D., director of faculty development, received a Society of Osteopathic Medical Educators Award “for his outstanding leadership of the Society of Osteopathic Medicine’s Special Interest Group in Faculty Development.”
“We are in the unique situation of having a department of faculty development with a director and three Ph.D.-level educators,” Davis said.
The college won two, first-place AACOM Excellence in Communication Awards:
“Congratulations to the communication team, who did a fantastic job on both projects, and to the many, many people who had a hand in making these projects a success,” said Karoline Lane, director of communication. “In addition to our communication office staff members, they are members of our admissions office, our CORE systems office, University Communications and Marketing and other offices and departments throughout the college. Many people from across the state of Ohio gave generously of their time and stories when interviewed for both projects.”
Your thoughts on the ARC Café?
Please take just a minute to help us improve the services at the new OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends café by answering a few survey questions at www.surveymonkey.com/s/JWPJMN7. The survey closes Friday, Apr. 16.
The ARC café has extended its hours for spring quarter; it’s now open weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Managed by Ohio University Dining Services, the café serves coffee and espresso drinks, teas, pastries, sandwiches, salads, cookies and other desserts, in addition to fountain drinks.
Coffee is supplied by Gallipolis-based Silver Bridge Coffee Company, where fresh Arabica beans harvested from all over the world are blended and roasted in small batches.
The café will be closed during the summer, but the ARC vending area will remain open. Soup and bread will be introduced when the café re-opens fall quarter 2010.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Abstracts
The Council on Research announces its call for abstracts for the 2010 Research Conference and the August “abstract issue” of The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association (JAOA).
The council’s 2010 Research Conference will be held Sunday, Oct. 24, to Tuesday, Oct. 26, as part of the Annual Osteopathic Medical Conference and Exposition (October 24-28) in San Francisco, Calif.
The formal poster session is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 24, from 1:30-5:00 p.m., and includes a student poster competition, co-sponsored by the Student Osteopathic Medical Association and the Council on Research.
· Submission deadline: Thursday, April 30, 11:59 p.m.
· Submit online at www.do-online.org/index.cfm?PageID=abstract.
· Learn more by contacting Gloria Dillard at the AOA Division of Research Development at 800-621-1773, ext. 8006, or at gdillard@osteopathic.org.
Commencement info available
For information about Commencement weekend activities, instructions, driving maps and guides for friends and family, go to the Commencement web page at www.oucom.ohiou.edu/saffairs/Graduation/2009/2010/2010%20graduation.htm.
While there, make sure you fill out the News Release Form. The OU-COM Office of Communication uses the form to send press releases to your undergraduate alma maters and to newspapers in your hometown and in the city of your upcoming internship/residency.
Completed forms can be sent via e-mail to heck@oucom.ohiou.edu, faxed to 740-593-0343, or returned to Richard Heck, writer/editor, in Irvine 353.
If you do not wish to have a graduation news release sent, check the appropriate box and sign your name in section 1 before returning the form.
CALENDAR
Minority Health Month lectures
· Joe Bianco, Ph.D., research scientist in the Department of Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology, will discuss “Health disparities among older adults with HIV/AIDS.”
Wednesday, April 14, noon – 1 p.m., Irvine 194
· Darrell Grace, D.O., chair of the National Osteopathic Medical Association, a volunteer organization that represents minority osteopathic physicians, will present “Diabetes in African Americans.”
Wednesday, April 21, noon – 1 p.m., Irvine 194
RSVP for each event to Colette M. McLemore, assistant director of multicultural programming, at 593-2465 or mclemore@ohiou.edu
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar
Beth O’Toole, M.D., will give a presentation on the topic of suffering.
· Event: Monday, April 19, noon-1 p.m., O’Bleness Medical Education Conference room 014, or Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference
DOC Awards
The OU-COM Student Government Association presents the annual Distinguished Osteopathic Commitment (DOC) Awards.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Leveraging your time is perhaps the most crucial strategy for success. There are only so many hours in a day that you can work. If you use only your own time, you can achieve only so much. If you can leverage other people's time too, you can increase productivity to an extraordinary extent.
Your time:
Other people's time:
If you can't delegate effectively, you can never expand your productivity beyond the work that you can personally deliver. This means that your career can stall out. While you may be appreciated for your hard work, you will not maximize your success.
As you begin to leverage your time, you'll find that it may involve some up-front costs, such as the investment of planning or training. While it's natural to want to conserve your resources ("I don't have time to train him – and this has got to be done by next Tuesday!"), if you never make these investments, you'll lock yourself into the old way of doing things, and you’ll limit yourself and your organization to achieving only those things that you can do by yourself.
Source: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newSTR_83.htm
Find more tips at your OU-COM & CORE faculty development web resources: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or www.ohiocore.org/cf/index.htm. If you have a great strategy that seems to always work, please send it to me, and I’ll include it in a future Faculty Development Tidbit.
Tidbits courtesy of your Office of Faculty Development with Steve Davis, Ph.D.; Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D.; and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
WOUB (4-12-10)
“Study proves helpful for Appalachian Ohio counties”
The Athens Messenger (4-7-10)
“OU-COM team finds Haiti in bad shape”
www.athensmessenger.com/news/local/article_23aa9b18-4242-11df-89d6-001cc4c03286.html
Please send your news/announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu each week by Wednesday, 3 p.m. for consideration in the following ROUNDS. If you have questions, suggestions or corrections, please contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593.2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.