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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-HCOM and CORE personnel and students.

 

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NEWS

 

College leads state in signing up providers for electronic health records

            OU-HCOM and the Appalachian Health Information Exchange Regional Extension Center became the first in Ohio to sign up 100 percent of its target goal of 404 primary care providers who will receive assistance in implementing electronic health records. As a result, the college and the extension center received an additional $450,000 to provide services for an additional 100 primary care providers in southeastern Ohio.

             “The providers who receive the assistance – most of whom are all in small, private practices -- do not have the time or money to research various vendors, options and systems,” said Brian Phillips, chief of medical informatics.

 

Phillips noted that AHIE, whose members include every major hospital and hospital system in the region, has been a pioneer in working towards development and implementation of electronic health records.

            To read more about the achievement, go to http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/MedRecord/index.htm.

 

OU-HCOM, O’Bleness create new diabetes partnership

            O’Bleness Memorial Hospital and OU-HCOM formed a new fellowship program that will train primary care physicians to meet the growing diabetes epidemic in Ohio.

            Through the Diabetes Fellowship Program, physicians will receive the comprehensive training necessary to address the diverse treatment needs of diabetic patients, especially in southeastern Ohio.

            O’Bleness Memorial Hospital has pledged $265,457 to OU-HCOM during the next five years to support the collaborative training. OU-HCOM will provide matching funding and other resources, including facilities in the college’s new Osteopathic Heritage Foundations and Charles R. and Marilyn Y. Stuckey Academic and Research Center (ARC). The college also will provide faculty benefits, including liability insurance and other research support.

            Richa Redhu Gehlaut, M.D., diabetes fellow, started earlier this summer as the first fellow in the newly expanded program. To read more, go to

http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/DiabetesFellowship/index.htm.

 

Convocation Ceremony to be streamed live on the web

            Like this year’s Commencement Ceremony, OU-HCOM for the first time will offer a live web broadcast of our Convocation Ceremony, thanks to the WOUB Center for Public Media and Ohio University’s Office of Information Technology. To view the ceremony, go to http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/CONVOCATION2011/video.htm.
            Please verify that you can see and hear the sample streaming video at the above URL.  If you can watch the video, you are set up correctly to watch the live broadcast. If you can see but not hear the video, please check that your volume is not muted. Other instructions are available on the page, which also is the page that will air Saturday’s ceremony.

            Saturday’s ceremony begins at 2 p.m.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

E-waste recycling available        

            The university has installed E-waste cabinets for the recycling of cell phones, toner cartridges or ink jet cartridges, batteries (rechargeable or regular dry cell batteries) as well as CDs and compact florescent bulbs. Most of the green and white cabinets are located in lobby areas of buildings, but the cabinets in Grosvenor Hall are located on the ground floor near Grosvenor West. The cabinets in Irvine Hall are located on The Bricks, and the cabinets in the ARC are located in the atrium/living room near the OU-HCOM Society of Alumni and Friends Café.

 

Red Cross blood drive

            Please help our friends at the Russ College of Engineering and Technology with a Red Cross blood drive. If you last donated blood on or before June 14, you may be eligible to give. For an appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS.

 

CALENDAR

 

Annual Alumni Panel

            Join members of the OU-HCOM Society of Alumni and Friends Board of Directors who are available to answer questions about surviving during and after medical school

 

2011 Convocation/White Coat Ceremony

 

COMrad picnic

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

Faculty Development Tidbit:

Instructional Strategy to Engage Learners, “Exit Slips”

 

Purpose:  To engage students in summarizing their learning

 

Description:  Using this strategy, students will synthesize learned information, skills, and processes by writing an Exit Slip. An Exit Slip can be a One Sentence Summary of what students learned or can be used in a variety of other ways. Other uses are: to answer a review question, to pose a question related to the topic studied, to make a short list of facts learned, to set a learning goal for the next day, etc.

 

Procedure:  

  1. Prior to using the Exit Slip as a summary activity in your classroom, decide upon its purpose (including whether or not it will be used as an assessment or evaluation tool).
  2. During the last 5-10 minutes of class, inform students of the purpose/task associated with their Exit Slip.
  3. Tell students to take out a half-sheet of paper and complete the assigned Exit Slip.
  4. As students exit your classroom that day, collect their Exit Slips as a pass out the door.

 

Hint: Exit Slips are a great way to assess your own teaching. They will often indicate whether or not students understood the presented material. When used to pose a question, they can provide discussion questions for the next day's lesson.

 

Source: http://sites.google.com/site/stokestechnology/Home/instructional-strategies-for-engaging-learners/summarizing-strategies/exit-slips

 

NOTE FROM STEVE:  Fight for feedback…you are responsible for your teaching/facilitating their learning…do you know how you’re doing?   

 

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 workplease 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-HCOM in the News

 

The Athens News (8-2-11)

Going electronic: Federal funding helps rural physicians implement electronic health records”

http://www.athensnews.com/ohio/article-34503-going-electronic.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 Richard Heck, writer/editor, at 593.0896 or heck@ohio.edu.