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

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Faculty Changes Effective Sept. 1

 

Deadline for Research Day posters approaching

            Students planning to present posters at the 10th Annual OU-HCOM Research Day should submit their project titles, abstracts and electronic versions of their posters for production no later than Thursday, Sept. 1.

            Anyone who misses the Sept. 1 deadline will be responsible for arranging and paying all expenses for their own poster printing.

Visit www.oucom.ohiou.edu/communications/posters2009.htm for instructions on how to submit posters.

 

Students: Explore osteopathic history; compete for $10,000 in prizes

            The AOA Bureau of Osteopathic History and Identity has announced its annual essay competition to encourage medical students, interns and residents to study their profession’s past struggles and achievements.

Essays, which should focus on the AOA’s “Core Principles for Teaching the History of Osteopathic Medicine,” are due by Oct. 3. The winning essayist will receive $5,000, with $3,000 going to second place and $2,000 to third place. Visit www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=66991 for details.

 

New OHIO Medicine shirts have arrived

            OHIO MEDICINE shirts are now available for sale. They are $15 for Cotton Shirts and $25 for the Dry Fit Shirts. Note that the Dry Fit shirts don't shrink, and the Cotton ones tend to shrink after drying.

 Please e-mail Valerie Van Ravenswasy, M.P.H., OMS II, student government president, at: vv226909@ohio.edu.

 

 CALENDAR

COMrad picnic

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

Faculty Development Tidbit: Three-Step Interview

Purpose: To engage students in conversation for the purpose of analyzing and synthesizing new information.

Description: The Three-Step Interview is a cooperative structure that helps students personalize their learning and listen to and appreciate the ideas and thinking of others. Active listening and paraphrasing by the interviewer develops understanding and empathy for the thinking of the interviewee.

Procedure:

1. Students work in pairs. One is the interviewer; the other is the interviewee.  The interviewer listens actively to the comments and thoughts of the interviewee, paraphrasing key points and significant details.

2. Student pairs reverse roles, repeating the interview process.

3. Each pair then joins another pair to form groups of four. Students introduce their pair partner and share what the partner had to say about the topic at hand.


 

Sample Three-Step Interview Topics:

1. Present a very challenging filter/sort combination problem to the students.  Allow them to use the interview to discuss possible solutions.

2. Present students with an ethical situation related to privacy and the internet. Allow students to use the interview as a means of discussing the different components of the issues at hand.

3. Provide students a short (four to five words) list of vocabulary to be reviewed. In the interview, they are to explain the definitions and applications of the words. By regrouping with the other interview pair, appropriate student use of vocabulary will be reinforced.

 

Lipton, L., & Wellman, B. (1998). Patterns and practices in the learning-focused classroom. Guilford, Vermont: Pathways Publishing.

Source: http://sites.google.com/site/stokestechnology/Home/instructional-strategies-for-engaging-learners/activating-strategies/three-step-interview

 

NOTE FROM STEVE Engaging students in conversations to analyze and synthesize is a learning activity that can be as richer than a lecture. Is there a topic you teach that might lend itself to this one or more of the three samples?  Remember: Humans’ attention span under normal circumstances is about 10 minutes. This exercise would be a great way to “pull them back” and help them make sense of all you are teaching.     

 

Find more tips at your OU-HCOM and CORE faculty development web resources pages:  www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or www.ohiocore.org/cf/index.htm. If you have a great strategyplease 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 and announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu each week by Wednesday at 3 p.m. for consideration in the following ROUNDS. If you have questions, suggestions or corrections, contact Richard Heck, writer/editor, at 740.593.0896 or heckr@ohio.edu.