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

 

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NEWS

Annual OOA/CORE poster exhibition, competition goes regional

            This year’s poster exhibition at the annual Ohio Osteopathic Symposium on April 30 was the first to include participants from outside Ohio in a regional focus.

            Sponsored by the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM), the Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE), and the Ohio Osteopathic Association (OOA), involvement in the exhibition grew 51% from 2010 as participation was expanded to include research abstracts and posters submitted from Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

            In the 2011 OOA/CORE category for Case Reports, Chase Scarbrough, OMS III, and Joseph Kuhn, OMS II, won first place for their poster “Transdermal Metformin for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: A Case Series.”

Emilie Prot, OMS I, won second place in the OOA/CORE category for Clinical/Biomedical research for her poster “Medicinal Plant Use and Traditional Medicinal Practices in Rural Mexico: A Case Study in Tamaula, Guanajuato, Mexico.” Read the whole story online at http://www.ohiocore.org/COREposterexhibitioncompetition.htm.

 

New study suggests predator feeding strategies were based on age

While adult tyrannosaurs wielded power and size to kill large prey, youngsters used agility to hunt smaller game.

            “It’s one of the secrets of success for tyrannosaurs—the different age groups weren’t competing with each other for food because their diets shifted as they grew,” said Lawrence Witmer, Ph.D. , professor of anatomy, Chang Professor of Paleontology.

            Witmer is part of an international team of scientists from Japan, Mongolia and the United States that analyzed the youngest and most-complete known skull for any species of tyrannosaur, offering a new view of the growth and feeding strategies of these fearsome predators. The 70-million-year-old skull comes from a very young individual of the Mongolian dinosaur species known as Tarbosaurus bataar, the closest known relative of T. rex.

            The different hunting strategies of juveniles and adults may have reduced competition among Tarbosaurus and strengthened their role as the dominant predators of their environment. Read the whole story online at http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/tyrannosaur.cfm.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Staff changes

 

 

CALENDAR

Staying in Motion: Preventing Falls presentation

            This presentation by David Russ, Ph.D., P.T., OU School of Physical Therapy, is part of the Spring Caregivers Series, developed and co-sponsored by OU-COM. Refreshments will be provided by Kimes Nursing and Rehab Center.

·          Event: Tuesday, May 17, 6-7:30 p.m., Athens Public Library

 

Memorial service honors body donors

            OU-COM will hold its annual memorial service to honor the donors to the Body Donor Program. Medical students are asked to wear their white coats as a way of identifying themselves to the donor’s families. Please plan on being seated by 2:50 p.m. as the service will begin promptly at 3 p.m. Refreshments will be served after the service, which will last approximately 45 minutes.

·          Event: Thursday, June 2, 3 p.m., Baker Center Ballroom

 

36th Graduation Commencement

·         Event: Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m.

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

            In approaching a question, it is useful to figure out what type it is. Is it a question with one definite answer? Is it a question that calls for a subjective choice? Or does the question require you to consider competing answers?

1. One System

·         requires evidence and reasoning within a system →

→a correct answer →

→knowledge

2. No System

·         calls for stating a subjective preference →

→a subjective opinion →

→cannot be assessed

3. Multi-System

·         requires evidence and reasoning within multiple systems →

→better and worse answers →

→judgement

Source: http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/3kindsquest.htm

 

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

 

 

OU-COM IN THE NEWS

The Post (5-16-11)

“OU-COM could face tuition hike”

http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/content/ou-com-could-face-tuition-hike

 

 

COMPASS (5-10-11)

“Jane Crace is March Classified Employee of the Month”

http://www.ohio.edu/compass/stories/10-11/5/Jane-Crace-EOTM.cfm

 

The People’s Defender (5-11-11)

“Johnson receives Family Physician of the Year Award”

http://www.peoplesdefender.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=83&ArticleID=133399

 

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.

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