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NEWS
Dean invites college of celebration luncheon
Dean Jack Brose, D.O, invites
all faculty, staff and students to a celebration of the historic $105 million
gift from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations to OU-COM, with Richard Vincent,
president and CEO of the Foundations, as special guest.
The celebration will be on the Irvine Bricks on Wednesday, May 11, from
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A light lunch will be served, and remarks will begin at
noon.
OU-COM welcomes German physicians in osteopathic training
A group of 20 German physicians, all members of the Deutsche Gesellshaft fur
Osteopathische Medizin (DGOM, or the German Society for Osteopathic Medicine),
arrived at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) on
Tuesday, May 3, for a one week visit.
The physicians, all of whom hold M.D. degrees but have received extensive
training in osteopathic medicine, attended two, three-day courses at OU-COM,
said David Eland, D.O., professor of
osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM).
Germany does not offer a licensing procedure for osteopathic medicine. However,
the DGOM does offer a certification program, which requires practicing
physicians to take more than 700 hours of continuing medical education credits
to be certified by the Society, Eland said.
The visiting physicians included those specializing in pediatrics, family
medicine, orthopedic surgery and a variety of others, Eland said. “We’re excited
to have them here.”
Eland, and Anthony Chila, D.O.,
professor of OMM, and Stevan Walkowski,
D.O., assistant professor of OMM, taught the courses which covered virtual
haptic back simulation, biodynamic osteopathy, advanced myofascial, anatomy and
other clinical presentations.
One of the group’s leaders, Johannes Mayer, M.D., D.O.M., vice president of the
DGOM, is president of the European Register of Osteopathic Physicians (EROP) and
chairman of the Osteopathic International Alliance. Dr. Mayer taught a three day
visceral course to Ohio osteopathic physicians, residents and OMM fellows, Eland
said.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
OU-COM retirements
·
Nili Urieli, D.O.,
assistant professor, Pathology will be retiring from OU-COM effective June 30,
2011
·
Ken Goodrum, Ph.D.,
associate professor, Immunology will be early retiring from OU-COM effective
Thursday, June 30, 2011 and returning to teach one quarter/semester per year.
New hires
·
Effective Sunday, May 1, 2011, please welcome
John Borchard, Regional
Quality Improvement Coordinator. You can reach John in Grosvenor Hall 015
or at 3-0828.
·
Effective Monday, May 9, 2011, Eric Clift has accepted a new position as
Clinical Biomedical Engineer in the Office of Medical Informatics. You can
reach Eric in Grosvenor Hall 138 or 3-2169.
CALENDAR
Obesity expert to discuss needed policy changes
Obesity expert James Sallis, Ph.D., professor of psychology at San Diego State
University will be speaking about essential policy changes in addressing the
nation’s obesity epidemic.
·
Event:
TODAY,
May 9, noon, Walter Hall Rotunda
“Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver” script reading
Please join us for a free reading of "Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver," a
play by Merri Biechler, curriculum
graduate assistant, as part of the Addiction, Pain and Palliative Care Block.
When Mae Benjamin moves back home to care for her terminally ill father, she
imagines moments of reconciliation and grace. Bus as her father's health
declines, his obsession with the Sci-Fi Network and creating a machine to
deliver him to another dimension intensifies. Using the machine, Mae
summons her mother for guidance, and with humor and compassion strives to reach
her final goal...to give her father a good death.
Tracy Marx, D.O.
(’92), associate professor, family medicine, and Biechler created the
“Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver Palliative Educational Program” in order
to address the sensitive subjects of palliative care, hospice and end-of-life
issues in the classroom. By using live theatre, together with a post-show
attidunal survey, the program brings students a unique opportunity to see what
happens to a family after a physician gives a terminal diagnosis. This
award-winning play has been seen in New York City, Atlanta, Jacksonville, New
Orleans and throughout Ohio.
How to Deal with Disruptive Behavior presentation
This presentation by Joan Stroh, L.P.C.C, L.S.W, is part of the Spring
Caregivers Series, developed and co-sponsored by OU-COM. Refreshments will be
provided by The Lindley Inn.
·
Event:
Tuesday, May 10, 6-7:30 p.m., Athens Public Library
2011 Student Expo
Memorial service honors body donors
OU-COM will hold a memorial service to honor the donors to the Body Donor
Program. Medical students are asked to wear your white coats as a way of
identifying yourselves 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
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Ask students
to analyze what makes their classes more or less "motivating."
Sass (1989) asks his classes to recall two recent class periods, one in which
they were highly motivated and one in which their motivation was low. Each
student makes a list of specific aspects of the two classes that influenced his
or her level of motivation, and students then meet in small groups to reach
consensus on characteristics that contribute to high and low motivation. In over
twenty courses, Sass reports, the same eight characteristics emerge as major
contributors to student motivation:
NOTE FROM STEVE: Self-assess and make a plan to increase in one or more areas
Source:
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motiv.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
COMPASS
(4-27-11)
“Fast Treatment:
Kayla Bober studies new way to manage type 2 diabetes”
http://www.ohio.edu/research/communications/bober.cfm
Columbus Business First
(5-6-11)
“Med school gifts help Ohio care for its own”
Columbus Business First
(5-6-11)
“Ohio U. aims to leave health care legacy”
Inside OME
(April/May 2011 – Vol. 4, No. 4/5)
“Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine Receives $105 million in
Funding”
http://publish.aacom.org/resources/ome/2011-05/Pages/OhioU.aspx
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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