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NEWS

Microbiology Annual Spring Meeting hosted by OU-COM

            The Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology (OBASM) will be holding its annual Spring Meeting at Ohio University on April 8 and 9.

            Society members Erin Murphy, Ph.D., assistant professor of medical microbiology, and Peter Coschigano, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, are leading the planning efforts to host the event at OU-COM.

            The meeting will begin with an ASM Branch Lecture and social time in Walter Hall on Friday evening and continues on Saturday with a keynote lecture BY WHO and microbiology sessions held throughout the day in the Baker University Center Ballroom.

            The Saturday sessions will include OBASM invited speakers presenting information on applied and environmental microbiology, infectious disease microbiology, and bioinformatics. Other highlights of the meeting will be a branch business lunch meeting, student poster and podium presentations, vendor displays, and a banquet and student awards presentation to conclude the meeting back in Walter Hall.

To register for the conference, or for more information and a detailed program schedule, visit the Ohio Branch ASM Spring Meeting website at http://microbiology.muohio.edu/obasm/meetings.html#registration.

           

ROUNDS goes on Spring Break

Due to the upcoming Spring Break, ROUNDS will not be published next week. ROUNDS will return to your email in-box on Monday, March 28.

Also, the Learning Resources Center and the OU-COM Society of Alumni and Friends Café in the Academic & Research Center (ARC) will be closed during Spring Break.

The LRC will close Friday, March 18, at 5 p.m. Materials checked out during the break must be returned no later than Monday, March 28, at noon. The café will close Friday, March 18, at 2 p.m. and reopen Monday, March 28.

 

 ANNOUNCEMENT 

Congratulations to the newly elected class officers

            Elected officers for the class of 2014 have been announced for the 2011-2012 academic year. Congratulations to the following new officers:

·         President: Keri Childers, OMSI

·         CPC Vice-President: Maureen Cheung, OMSI

·         PC Vice-President: Brandon Kohrs, OMSI

·         Secretary/Treasurer: Nicholas Houska, OMSI

 

 CALENDAR   

Faculty Development Brownbag Seminar

            This audio seminar on “What to Teach When There Isn’t Time to Teach Everything” will cover several topics to help improve teaching styles and incorporate new and important resources into your lessons. R.S.V.P. to andrewsl@ohio.edu as soon as possible. Attendance will generate a memo for your record sent to your department head.

·          Event: Wednesday, March 23, noon, Grosvenor West 111

 

Careers in Medicine/Hospital Residency Programs Expo

·          Event: Wednesday, March 30, 10 a.m., Baker University Center

 

31st ANNUAL 5K Medicine Run/Walk & Children’s Obstacle Course

            Sponsored by Sigma Sigma Phi, this annual event to promote a healthy lifestyle for residents of the Athens community and to raise funds for OU-COM’s Free Clinic, is accepting pre-registrations now through March 21.

For the first time this year, registration is also available online at https://commerce.cashnet.com/oucommedrun. The entry fee is $20 and includes a t-shirt. Registration and payment by check can be made out to OU-COM Medicine Run, and dropped off or sent to G-014.

·          Event: Sunday, April 17, 9 a.m., outside Grosvenor Hall

 

2011 DOC Awards

           Honor fellow faculty, staff and students for their dedication and contributions to OU-COM. Tickets, which are available at the student affairs office, are free for faculty, staff, and students but will cost $10 for guests and should be picked up by Friday, April 8.

·          Event: Wednesday, April 20, 5:30 p.m., Baker University Center Ballroom

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit.  INNOVATIVE USE OF AN AUDIENCE RESPONSE SYSTEM IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

            Electronic voting is an interesting audience response technology for classroom use.  Using on-the-spot voting changes one-way interaction of a standard presentation into a two-way communication process that motivates and involves the audience to active participation and provides the teacher with immediate feedback on the students’ level of understanding or their opinions.  

METHODS:  Teachers use several applications for using voting in their lectures.  Scenarios include basic knowledge tests at the start or end of a lecture to assess the students level of knowledge, screening tests to determine those topics students know less about, panel discussion tools to determine the audience’s opinion and interactive lectures in which students have direct influence on the content to be presented. 

RESULTS:  Basic tests are generally used to find out the knowledge level of the students.  If students perform poor on the test, the teacher can immediately adjust the lecture to fill in the gaps detected.  In combination with a post-test, the actual increase of knowledge can be measured.  Many teachers also use tests in the middle of their lecture.  Using the technique at a moment where concentration may decrease helps students to stay focused and to increase retention time of information.   

            Screening tests are used to deliver tailor made lectures.  First, the teacher presents a test of about 20 questions.  Based on the results, only the top-5 items with the least understanding will be discussed in class.  This makes education more efficient. Addressing audience opinions in a lecture might also lead to very interesting effects. Because of the anonymity of the system, students can answer what they really think of have done, even the answer is not socially desirable.  
            Finally, the audience can actively steer the direction of the lecture.  Students choose between two options and the teacher will select the option that gets the majority of votes.  A very special option is a lecture that describes a patient case.  By voting one out of a list of possible clinical actions, the audience can simulate treating the virtual patient presented and will immediately be confronted with the implications of the chosen action.

 

CONCLUSIONS:  Audience Response Systems can be used in many didactic ways to enhance the quality and efficiency of education. 
http://iamse.org/conf/conf14/instructional_methods.pdf

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