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

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NEWS

AOA OPTI on-site inspection scheduled for next week

OU-COM and CORE will host a team of distinguished guests on campus Wednesday, June 8, and Thursday, June 9. This is an extremely important visit by American Osteopathic Association inspectors who will be conducting an on-site visit in regard to the renewed accreditation for the CORE.

CORE Executive Director Harvey Schwartz asks all faculty, staff and students to keep work areas looking neat and to recognize how critical their visit is to both OU-COM and the CORE’s reputation and success. AOA inspectors will be meeting with a variety of OU-COM and CORE staff during the two day visit in person and via videoconference. Questions about the inspection can be made to Schwartz at his Columbus office at 614-544-1793, his Athens office at 597-3155, or via email at schwarth@ohio.edu.

NEW this year for graduation:  Watch it live online!

We hope you will join us at Memorial Auditorium for the college’s 32^cd Commencement on Saturday, June 4. The ceremony begins at 10 a.m.

Can’t make it live? This year you can watch Dr. Leonard Calabrese deliver the keynote address and the 107 members of the class of 2011 take their physician oaths via live web broadcast.

            Similar to the process that was used to announce the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation’s gift to the college, the ceremony can be viewed by anyone with Internet access and the appropriate plug-in software. We’re working on upgrading the service, so please stay tuned.

            The page to set up to view the ceremony: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/Commencement2011/video.htm.

            For other information about this year’s Commencement: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/Commencement2011/schedule.htm.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Campus screening for film based on caregiver play

            Medical education, theater and filmmaking merged via an Ohio University communication class to deal with the sensitive issue of the pending death of a family member.

            The feature-length production of “The Passageway,” by this year’s Media Arts and Studies 419 class, is based on the 2006 play “Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver” by Merri Biechler, an assistant in the Office of Academic Affairs at OU-COM and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Theater. Biechler wrote the play when she was a student earning her Masters of Fine Arts in Playwriting. At the same time, she was also working at OU-COM as a graduate assistant in the Office of Academic Affairs and teaching in the School of Theater.

            The film will be presented to the public for the first time on Sunday, June 5, at Templeton Blackburn Memorial Auditorium at 2 p.m.

CALENDAR

Palliative Care: Myths and Benefits presentation

            This presentation by Tracy Marx, D.O., OU-COM Dept. of Family Medicine, is part of the Spring Caregivers Series, developed and co-sponsored by OU-COM. Refreshments will be provided byArcadia Nursing Home & Rehabilitation Center.

• Event: Tuesday, May 31, 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

32^cd Commencement

• Event: Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m., Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium.

Campus screening for film based on caregiver play

           “The Passageway,” a film based on the play, “Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver,” by Merri Biechler, curriculum graduate assistant, will be screened.

• Event:  Sunday, June 5, 2 p.m., Templeton-Blackburn Memorial Auditorium

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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

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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