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NEWS

Please join us for open house for new Heritage CTAC & Community Clinic

OU-COM faculty, staff and students are invited to an open house for the new Heritage for Clinical Training and Assessment Center & Community Clinic on Friday, April 22, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Please join us for tours of the facility and light refreshments.

         The new facility, made possible by a generous $2.3 million gift from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, will provide OU-COM medical students with space for state-of-the-art clinical skills training, and patients with a new home for community health clinics. The remodeled 11,000 square feet space in the ground floor of Grosvenor Hall and Grosvenor West is divided between a standardized patient area, a simulation area and a free clinic area, with some areas to be shared.

          Friday’s open house for faculty and staff will follow an invitation-only dedication ceremony and ribbon-cutting attended by members of the Ohio University Board of Trustees, the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, the OU-COM Free Clinic Board of Directors, local elected officials and other dignitaries.

Dean honored by Columbus Osteopathic Association

            Dean Jack Brose, D.O., received the James F. Sosnowski, D.O., Distinguished Service Award from the Columbus Osteopathic Association at the group’s annual meeting and dinner last week.

            The academy’s highest honor, the award is named after James F. Sosnowski, D.O., a former intern and resident at Doctors Hospital in Columbus who was the only osteopathic physician killed during the Vietnam War.

            The award is given in recognition of the recipient’s lifelong commitment to osteopathic medicine, patient care and community.

New study links birds’ sense of smell with dinosaurs

A study published last week by scientists at the University of Calgary, the Royal Tyrrell Museum and OU-COM tested the theory that during the evolution from dinosaurs to birds, the sense of smell declined as birds developed heightened senses of vision, hearing and balance for flight.

            The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, dispute that theory. The scientists discovered that the sense of smell actually increased in early bird evolution, peaking millions of years ago during a time when the ancestors of modern-day birds competed with dinosaurs and more ancient branches of the bird family.

            Larry Witmer, Ph.D., Chang Professor of Paleontology, and Ryan Ridgely, research technician, were among the co-authors of the article.

            To read the whole story, visit http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/birds/index.htm.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Submit posters for the 2011 Student Expo

            The deadline for printing posters at the OU-COM Office of  Communication Design Resource Office for students entering posters in the 2011 Student Expo will be Friday, May 6 at 5 p.m.

            Posters may be submitted for printing by uploading the file to the drop box at http://dropbox.yousendit.com/DanettePratt11894102 or by bringing the poster file on a flash drive to Irvine Hall 126.

            All posters must be proofed and in their final edited versions for printing with the student’s last name first on the poster file. For more information, please call Danette Pratt, graphic artist and biomedical illustrator, at 593-2296.

            The 2011 Student Expo will be held Friday, May 13, in the Convocation Center.

SNMA members take national positions

            Two members of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) at OU-COM received appointments to national positions. Alexis Phillips, OMS II, was appointed National Osteopathic Chair of the SNMA. Her responsibilities will include representing the osteopathic students, integrating osteopathic focus into SNMA operations, addressing the concerns and needs of members, and educating medical and undergraduate students about osteopathic medicine.

            Candace Moore, OMS III, was appointed National Chair of the Health Policy and Legislative Affairs Committee. She will spearhead SNMA advocacy efforts and educate members about legislative and policy developments affecting medical education and health care.

Change in positions

            Beginning today, April 18, Tami Erwin, administrative assistant, will be moving to the Office of Admissions. You can reach Tami at 4-4313 or in Grosvenor Hall 102.

CALENDAR

Minority Health Month Speaker

            Author and journalist Harriet A. Washington, a former fellow in ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, will speak about issues in her book titled, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.

·         Event: Today, April 18, 2011, 7 p.m., Baker University Center Ballroom

Alumnus returns to lecture

            The Office of Alumni Affairs and the OU-COM Pediatrics Club welcomes Erich C. Maul, D.O. (’99), back to campus, where he will talk about his experiences as a pediatric hospitalist at the University of Kentucky healthcare system.

Event: Tuesday, April 19, noon, Irvine 194

2011 DOC Awards

           Honor fellow faculty, staff and students for their dedication and their contributions to medical student education at OU-COM.

·         Event: Wednesday, April 20, 5:30 p.m., Baker University Center Ballroom

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.

·         Event: April 28-May 1, Hilton at Easton, Columbus

Tres de Mayo Celebration

            Come celebrate an early Cinco de Mayo on the Irvine bricks with beef or refried been tacos, corn chips and salsa, cookies and drinks. Tickets cost $3 in advance or $5 at the door. Split the pot will also be available. RSVP to Mike Yeager by noon on April 26.

·         Event: Tuesday, May 3, noon to 1 p.m., Irvine bricks

Foul Water Fiery Serpent documentary viewing

            OU-COM’s Global Health Programs and the American Medical Student Association are hosting a viewing of this new documentary that follows health care workers in their fight to eradicate the Guinea worm disease.

·         Event: Tuesday, May 3, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Irvine 199

Obesity expert to discuss needed policy changes

            Obesity expert James Sallis, Ph.D., professor of psychology at San Diego State University will be speaking about essential policy changes in addressing the nation’s obesity epidemic.

·         Event: Monday, May 9, noon, Walter Hall Rotunda

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: What is an interactive lecture?

In an interactive lecture, the lecture is interspersed with short activities for individuals, pairs or small groups. The activities help engage students and help the instructor gauge student understanding.

For example, rather than asking a question and calling on the first student who raises a hand, ask all students to reflect on the question and then discuss with a neighbor first. This gives everyone a chance to participate.

Other strategies for engaging students include concept tests, the “question of the day,” and in-class small-group activities. Interactive lectures can be used in classes of any size. Learn more about interactive lecture activities at http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/interactive/index.html.

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.

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