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

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NEWS

            The AmeriCorps/ComCorps program at OU-COM received a $260,000 grant from the Ohio Community Service Council to continue its outreach to Athens County, in addition to planning, implementing and evaluating a new obesity prevention program focus for Athens County children. OU-COM was one of 26 organizations in Ohio to receive the AmeriCorps funding. To read more, go to http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/ComCorps/index.htm.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Faculty members promoted

            Please congratulate the following OU-COM faculty members on their promotion and tenure effective July 1:

• Brian Clark, Ph.D., associate professor, neuromuscular physiology
• Ramiro Malgor, M.D., associate professor, pathology
• Nancy Stevens, Ph.D., associate professor, anthropology
• Susan Williams, Ph.D., associate professor, anatomy

Relay for Life includes new event this year   

            The Athens County Relay for Life will be held July 8 and 9 at the Athens County Fairgrounds in Athens. The annual event is the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraising event that increases awareness of cancer, supports cancer survivors and caregivers and raises money for cancer research.

            This year’s event begins July 8 with registration for the survivor’s dinner at 5 p.m., followed by a kick-off ceremony at 6 p.m. and a survivor walk at 6:15 p.m. During the evening various events will be held, including a live purse auction, a silent auction and games. At 9:15 p.m., a luminary Ceremony of Lights will take place, which symbolizes the “hope” for the relay. Magic Mama Latte will perform at 10:30 p.m., followed by local disc jockey Rockin’ Reggie at midnight.

            On July 9, a new event has been added: a 5K run/walk sponsored by Orthopedics of Southeast Ohio, which begins with a registration/check-in at 8 a.m., and the run starting at 9 a.m.

            To register in advance, forms are available at all Hocking Valley Bank locations, WellWorks and the Athens Community Center. Advance registration is only $15 for individuals, or $50 for a four-person team. Registration on race day will be $20 for individuals and $70 a team. All participants will receive a Relay for Life T-shirt.

            For information, contact Tammy Bobo at 592-6840 or go to www.relayforlife.org/athens.

Student Government Association seeks donations for silent auction

            The Council of Osteopathic Student Government Presidents (COSGP) is seeking donations for a Silent Auction to be held during this year’s AOA House of Delegates. The OU-COM Student Government Association hopes to donate at least $600 in items for the event, said Valerie Van Ravenswaay, OSMII, SGA 2014 president. Donated items, which are tax deductible, can include the following:

·                     A.T. Still items

·                     Unique Osteopathic Medicine items

·                     Men's ties

·                     Women’s jewelry

·                     Electronics (iPod/iTouch, Garmin, etc.)

·                     Textbooks

·                     International items

·                     Art/Pictures (framed or unframed)

·                     Golf items

·                     Vouchers/ gift certificates to national chains (restaurants, hotels, electronic stores, etc.)

            Van Ravenswaay requests donated items be dropped off in the Student Affairs Office in G-018 no later than MONDAY, JUNE 27, or e-mail her at vv226909@ohio.edu to request a pick up.

Childhood Immunization Clinics change schedule

            The OU-COM Community Health Programs’ Childhood Immunization Clinic has set a new schedule. 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. The clinics offer free routine childhood immunizations to children up  to the age of 19. For information, call 1-800-844-2654 or 593-2432.

CALENDAR

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.

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

•  Always insisting on the reasons for things -- in class and out -- and always taking time, one's self, to give reasons. This takes patience, indeed stretches it often to Biblical extremes
• Knowing the difference between asking students to listen to you and to hear you - and acting upon it
• "Hearing" students, and questioning them thoroughly enough to know just how they see or are confused by an issue
• Showing that you can change your mind, when evidence and logic suggest it
• Being on the edge of your subject and interests; exhibiting the same questing in your field that you would have your students feel

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.

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.