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NEWS
OU-COM students, faculty lobby Ohio reps on Capitol Hill
OU-COM, the CORE and the Ohio Osteopathic profession were well
represented Thursday in Washington D.C. at the annual DO Day on the Hill. A
chartered bus carried nearly more than 55 OU-COM students and clinical faculty
to the nation’s capital, where they were joined by eight students from Ohio
enrolled at other colleges of osteopathic medicine.
The group visited all 19 members of the Ohio Congressional delegation,
about half of which were available to meet the Ohio osteopathic contingent,
according to Jon Wills, executive director of the OOA.
“The trip was non-stop, action-packed and a great experience for all,”
said Peter Bell, D.O., CORE
assistant dean, who participated in the trip. All of the OU-COM students who
joined the trip reported they would do so again, he said.
“A very powerful bonding experience, and a fantastic mentoring
opportunity,” Bell noted. More than 700 osteopathic medical students and
physicians attended the event, he said.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Third year student elected to national AMSA position
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Members would like you to join
them in congratulating Jacob Osterbur,
OMS III, for being elected to AMSA's national board of regional directors.
He will be a liaison to the national office for all of the medical schools in
Ohio and Michigan.
OU-COM students take state leadership positions
Three OUCOM students were elected to state leadership positions
at the Ohio State Medical Association's annual Medical Student Section
Meeting. Lisa Martorano, OMS III,
was elected to Chair, Aaron Loochtan,
OMS II, was elected to Vice-Chair, and
Melissa Parks, OMS II, was elected
to
Secretary/Treasurer.
These three positions comprise three out of the four spots on the OSMA-MSS'
executive board. Lisa, Melissa, and Aaron will serve the OSMA-MSS for the next
year to represent medical students from the 8 schools around the state. Their
terms began starting at the conclusion of the OSMA Annual House of Delegates
Meeting which was in Columbus April 1 through 3.
CALENDAR
31st Annual 5K Medicine Run/Walk and Children’s Obstacle Course
Sponsored by Sigma Sigma Phi, this annual event promotes a healthy lifestyle for
residents of the Athens community and raises funds for OU-COM’s Free Clinic.
The entry fee is $20 and includes a T-shirt. Registration and payment by check
can be made to OU-COM Medicine Run, and dropped off or sent to G-014. New this
year, registration is also available online at
https://commerce.cashnet.com/oucommedrun.
2011 DOC Awards
Honor
fellow faculty, staff and students for their dedication and their contributions
to medical student education at OU-COM.
Ohio Osteopathic Symposium
Find the program brochure, online registration, hotel reservation information,
and exhibitor information for the CME annual convention at
http://associationdatabase.com/aws/OOSA/pt/sp/symposium.
Foul Water Fiery Serpent
documentary Viewing
OU-COM’s Global Health Programs and the American Medical Students Association
are hosting a viewing of this new documentary that follows health care workers
in their fight to eradicate the Guinea worm disease.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit.
Corresponding with Students via E-mail
Michael T. Eskey, Ph.D., an
associate professor of criminal justice at Park University, offers the following
advice in the website “Faculty Focus”:
“My advice is simple: At the beginning of the term, set aside a separate
thumb drive for e-mails for a specific course, or create a separate subdirectory
on your hard-drive for that course. When you receive e-mails, save them by last
name and number (Smith – 1; Smith – 2, etc.) When you send e-mails, save them in
the same manner. When you send e-mails to the class, save them by class number,
for example CJ400-1, CJ400-2. When necessary, in responding to students, inform
them that you are “cc: ing” your supervisor (and do so).
This may seem like extra work and, for some, much ado about nothing.
However, if you are not able to provide documentation of your correspondence to
students, it is difficult to defend what you have said. You also may find that
the same student often complains in more than one class or seems to have
“excuses” for not completing assignments in more than one class (your program
coordinator or chair might validate this).
I once had a student whose mother died three weeks before the final in
two separate terms with two separate instructors. When we keep and share this
information it will begin to prevent much of the problem in the future and
provide you with very valuable documentation. It also will prevent unnecessary
correspondence with your program coordinator, department chair, dean, and
president.”
Note from Steve:
Email is just tool…learn to use it wisely.
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.
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 Richard
Heck, writer/editor, at 593.0896 or
heck@oucom.ohiou.edu
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
Scripps College of Communication
(4-7-11)
Please send
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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
Richard Heck, writer/editor, at 593.0896 or
heck@oucom.ohiou.edu.
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