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

 

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NEWS

Prevention of fainting topic of review article

            Thad Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology, co-authored an article, “Effect of Thermal Stress on Cardiac Function,” featured on the cover of the January 4 issue of Exercise and Sports Sciences Reviews, the prestigious quarterly journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. The journal presents the most contemporary scientific, medical and research-based topics emerging in the field of sports medicine and exercise

The published research is a synthesis of six other research articles on the same topic that Wilson and Craig Crandall, Ph.D., professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, co-wrote and published during the past decade. Wilson and Crandall conducted experiments to get answers for the nearly one million U.S. patients evaluated annually for syncope (fainting).

           “We determined that, as an individual starts to faint during heat stress, there’s a greater decrease in stroke volume—the amount of blood pushed out from the heart with each heartbeat—compared to when they are in neutral temperatures. This means there will be less blood traveling to the brain, which is one of the causes of syncope,” Wilson said

            More about the article will be published on the OU-COM website.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dean’s Brown Bag Session

            Dean Jack Brose, D.O., will host a brown bag luncheon to discuss OU-COM’s financial picture, the grant proposal to the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations, and an update on Vision 2020.

 

Applications being accepted for vision research fellowship

            Prevent Blindness Ohio is now accepting applications for its 2011 Young Investigator Student Fellowship Awards for Female Scholars in Vision Research. The fellowship awards, which range from $3,000 to $5,000, will give accepted students the opportunity to further research, demonstrate fundable research projects, and build presentation skills during summer 2011.

            Female US residents in a post-baccalaureate program in an Ohio institution are qualified to apply for the fellowship. Preference will be given to applications that investigate public health issues related to the burden of eye-related health and safety topics. For more information, contact Prevent Blindness Ohio at 800-301-2020 ext. 112 or info@pbohio.org. Application forms are available for download at www.pbohio.org and are due Feb. 15.

 

Senior awards nominations now being accepted

            Nominations are now being accepted for awards to honor select seniors at graduation on June 4, 2011. The 11 awards to be given include the Social Medicine Award, Dean’s Award, Global Health Award, and Osteopathic Heritage Award, among others. All CORE assistant deans, all CORE administrators, senior administrators, and clinical faculty are asked to review the criteria for the awards and consider graduates worthy of recognition.

            To make a nomination, complete the online form with the name of the award, student to be nominated, and an explanation for why the student should receive the award. All nominations are due by March 7. Visit the Student Affairs website for awards criteria and nomination forms at http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/saffairs/senior_awards.htm.

 

CALENDAR  

Super Bowl Lunch
Wear your favorite team’s colors and enter to win the soup contest by bringing a pot of chili, creamed soup, or stock with meat and veggies. Or just bring a pot of soup to share. RSVP with a soup contest form to Mike Yeager, administrative coordinator of Academic Affairs at (740 593-9300 or yeager@ohio.edu. The event costs $3 in advance or $5 at the door.      

 

Dean’s Brown Bag Session

            Dean Jack Brose, D.O., will host a brown bag luncheon to discuss OU-COM’s financial picture, the grant proposal to the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations,  and an update on Vision 2020.

 

OMM Club Auction date moved

            The OMM Club Auction was postponed due to snowy weather earlier this month.

 

SNMA Multicultural Extravaganza

·         Event: Wednesday, Feb. 23, noon, Irvine CPC lecture hall

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit:  Teaching Tip #30:  Demonstrate enthusiasm for your discipline; enthusiasm and energy can carry the day.

 

Are you a teacher that makes things happen, watches what happens or asks, “What happened?”  Enthusiasm about the subject matter (or a lack of such) is catching.  If you’re not enjoying your time in the classroom, your students won’t either.  And, as far as I know, fun is NOT the opposite of hard.  So, you can be enthusiastic and have fun, while still challenging the students to think.

 

NOTE FROM STEVE: Five ways to show enthusiasm; 1) speak in expressive ways, 2) gesture, 3) move around, 4) maintain eye contact with your students at all times, 5) vary your tone, get excited once in a while!

 

             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.