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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-HCOM and CORE personnel and
students.
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NEWS
Ronald R. Burns, D.O. (’89),
and William J. Burke, D.O. (’88),
were re-elected to the American Osteopathic Association’s (AOA) Board of
Trustees at its recent annual business meeting in Chicago.
In addition to his re-election as an AOA trustee, Dr. Burns serves on the
board of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners and is a member of
the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. He has also served the
Florida Osteopathic Medical Association (FOMA) in many capacities, including
being president from 2004-2005.
Dr. Burns has been an active member of the AOA Board of Trustees since
2007. He recently served as chair of the Bureau of Osteopathic Clinical
Education and Research. He received FOMA’s Physician of the Year award in 2002,
as well as its Distinguished Service Award in 2007.
Dr. Burke, associate professor of family medicine, serves as vice
president of medical education at Doctor’s Hospital in Columbus. In 2006, he
received the OU-HCOM Society of Alumni and Friends Distinguished Service Award.
He received the American Osteopathic Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award in
2008 and the Family Physician of the Year Award by the Ohio State Society of the
American College of Osteopathic Physicians in 2010. In 2009, he received the
Distinguished Service Award from Ohio University.
Witmer pens opinion piece for Nature, attracts world media attention
Larry Witmer, Ph.D.,
Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology,
biological sciences, wrote a News & Views piece in the most recent issue of
Nature that accompanies an article about a fossil find from China that suggests
iconic Archaeopteryx is not a bird but rather a basal deinonychosaur.
Since the release of the article last week, Witmer has conducted
interviews with media from around the world, including MSNBC, Nature, the
Associate Press, Science, The Scientist, Scientific American, the New York
Times, The Independent of London, the BBC, Australian radio and Die Presse in
Vienna, among others.
Read about it at Dr. Witmer’s blog at
http://witmerlab.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/happy-150th-birthday-archaeopteryx%E2%80%A6you%E2%80%99re-not-a-bird-after-all-maybe/.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
·
Effective Monday, Aug. 15, please welcome
Malissa Gilkey, administrative
assistant in the Office of Research and Grants. Gilkey can be reached at
593-2333 or Grosvenor Hall 231.
·
Effective Thursday, Oct. 13, please welcome
Craig Chappell, D.O., assistant
professor of Family Medicine. Dr. Chappell can be reached at 593-0465 or
Grosvenor Hall 320.
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 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.
Check your parking permit for expiration
Ohio University Parking Services reminds all staff
and faculty with DG09 parking permits that they must be renewed by Sept. 1 to
avoid an “expired/invalid permit” citation. Permits may be renewed anytime
Mondays through Fridays from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Parking Services at 100
Factory Street.
Parking Services recommends permit renewals be completed sooner than later in
order to avoid long lines when students return to campus in August.
When renewing parking permits, bring your current DG09 permit, your university
faculty/staff identification and know your vehicle(s) license plate number.
For information, go to
http://www.facilities.ohiou.edu/parking/.
For information about the university’s new “pay to park” program,
or to opt out of the program, go
to
http://www.facilities.ohiou.edu/parking/documents/P2PTransitionDescriptionandFAQ_002.pdf.
CALENDAR
Faculty Development Brown Bag
Joe Bianco, Ph.D.,
research assistant professor, presents “Consistent Highest Facilitator
Evaluations,” for those who serve as a small group facilitator and/or are
curious about this type of teaching assignment.
·
Event:
Wednesday, Aug. 3, noon, Grosvenor 113
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.
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
·
Event:
Friday, Aug. 12, noon, Irvine 194
2011 Convocation/White Coat Ceremony
COMrad picnic
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit:
Hidden Curriculum
Within every learning encounter, there is an explicit curriculum that
students are marked on and an implicit curriculum that students are never told
about directly, although they may find themselves judged in other ways because
of it. Frequently this hidden curriculum revolves around how the instructor
expects students to behave or think.
Unintentional Role Modeling
Students closely watch us for clues about both our professional and
personal preferences. Sometimes faculty role model behaviors they would never
want students to emulate such as mistreatment of staff, prejudice against or
neglect of certain types of patients, backstabbing of colleagues or disrespect
for certain types of students.
Intentional Role Modelling
It is very important that you think about how you are going to role model
how medical faculties think through problems and behave professionally.
Positive Feedback
If you want students to develop the habits of heart and mind of
physicians, you need to let them know when they are performing well and give
them opportunities to change their behavior or correct mistakes. Listen to a
podcast about the hidden curriculum.
For further reading:
Rewriting the hidden
curriculum: Keeping empathy alive
Uncovering the Hidden
Medical Curriculum through a Pedagogy of Discomfort
Source:
http://medicaleducation.wetpaint.com/page/Hidden+Curriculum
NOTE FROM STEVE: Making the implicit explicit increases the ability to set
clear expectations and standards. It’s worth some thought.
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@ohio.edu.