Welcome to ROUNDS!

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

 

The ROUNDS archive is here.

 

NEWS

Mandela Rhodes Scholar begins research at OU-COM

            In April, OU-COM welcomed researcher Aalyia Sadruddin, a 2009 Mandela Rhodes Scholar, who for the next two years will work on research related to health care in Kenya and the Kenyan Grandparents Study, a project that examines the impact of caregiving for orphaned children on the health and well-being of Luo elders in rural western Kenya. 

            Together with Gillian Ice, PH.D., M.P.H., associate professor of social medicine, Ms. Sadruddin’s current research projects include papers on stress of grandparent caregivers in the context of HIV, and socioeconomic status and obesity. She will also be working on publishing some of her own work centered on disease perception. This research is an extension of her master’s thesis, which assessed how nurses perceive malaria and HIV/AIDS and how meanings of help-seeking behaviors are administered.

            To read more about her work, go to

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

 

College name change information

            The Office of Communication has received numerous questions about the new name for the college, especially concerning stationary and promotional items.

            Because of the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation’s transformational gift to the college, in recognition of our major benefactor, the college’s name is slated to change to the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. The name will only officially change after the Ohio University Board of Trustees vote on the issue during the June 23 and June 24 meetings in Athens. Until that time, we are still the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM).

            Please continue to use your stationary and other OU-COM promotional items. Once the name is approved, when it comes time for you to order new stationary or business cards, please order as you normally would through University Print Resources.

            The OU-COM Office of Communications will be working on an institution-wide visual branding/identity program, including the redesign of our “logo,” college seal, and identities for our centers, institutes and programs, among many other pieces.

            If you have questions, please do contact Karoline Lane, director of communication, at lanek@ohio.edu, 593-2261, or Marie Graham, associate director, graham@oucom.ohiou.edu, 593-2408.

 

           

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Staff changes

            On June 29, from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Grosvenor West 111, OU-COM will host a retirement reception for Suzanne Vazzano, administrative associate in the Office of Research and Grants. Please stop by to wish her well.

            Effective July 1, 2011, please welcome Michelle Schall, accounting associate for Community Health Programs. You can reach Michelle in Grosvenor Hall 055 or at 3-2432. 

           

Childhood Immunization Clinics change schedule

            The OU-COM Community Health Programs’ Childhood Immunization Clinic has set a new schedule, which began on Thursday. New hours for the clinic will be Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Parks Hall room 014. Last week’s ROUNDS incorrectly reported the wrong afternoon ending time. The clinics offer free routine childhood immunizations to children to the age of 19. For information, call 1-800-844-2654 or 593-2432.

 

CALENDAR

Summer Scholars

  • Event: Monday, June 13, through Tuesday, July 19

 

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

  • Event: Monday, June 13, through Friday, July 15

 

Research and Scholarly Advancement Fellowship

  • Event: Monday, June 13, to Friday, Aug. 19 

 

Prematiculation 2011

  • Event: Monday, June 20 through Friday, July 15

 

CORE Student Clinician Reception

  • Event: Thursday, July 14, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Walter Hall Rotunda

 

Class of 2015 Orientation picnic

  • Event: Monday, July 25, 5:30 p.m.

 

2011 Convocation/White Coat Ceremony

  • Event: Saturday, Aug. 13, 2 p.m., Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Alumni Auditorium

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: help students to grow: Create a standard and a style from which people can learn.

 

  • Knowing student's names, and calling them by name
  • Greeting students and colleagues pleasantly
  • Going to see student friends on varied occasions (e.g., the House Counselor or teacher, attending a game or play because of a youngster who's playing)
  • Remembering something that had earlier worried a student, and asking about it ("Is your mother recovering from her operation?")
  • Resisting the sarcastic, if funny, bon mot that could be an amusing but hurtful rejoinder to a foolish comment a student has just made in class
  • Never tolerating ad hominem remarks among students and colleagues, such as apparently benign but really insulting jokes arising from one's sex or ethnic origin
  • Scrupulously following the dictum which all our parents taught us: ‘If you can't say anything good about someone, don't say anything at all.’
  • Telling a student the unvarnished truth, privately (i.e., "Susan, I honestly suspect you...", "George, you're not working hard enough.", "Sam, you are an insult to the olfactory nerves; go take a shower.", "Joan, you're a bully.")

Source: From “Good Teaching” by Theodore Sizer, Former Dean, Harvard College of Education (http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/goodteac.htm)

 

NOTE FROM STEVE: Students (or anyone) don’t care what you know till they know that you care.  You show the degree you care by the ACTIONS you take.  Pick one of the above and put it into ACTION! 

 

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.

 

 

OU-COM IN THE NEWS

Columbus Dispatch (6-12-11)

“A healer’s calling”

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/06/12/a-healers-calling.html?sid=101

 

Compass (6-8-11)

“MPA students earn first degree from Voinovich School”

http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/10-11/6/voinovich-graduates-2011.cfm

 

 

Perspectives (Spring/Summer 2011)

“Strength in Numbers - Millions of Americans suffer pain and weakness from injury, aging, and disuse. Two dozen Ohio University scientists explore the secrets behind our muscles, brain, and nervous system to provide relief”

http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/omni.cfm

 

 

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.