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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-HCOM and CORE personnel and students.
 
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NEWS
10th Annual Research Day heralds greater future for college
            Congratulations to our student research completion winners Robert Fresh, OMSII, winning the clinical research category; and Shawn C. Clark, OMSII, and Andrew R. Vogel, OMSI, winning in the basic science category. Eighteen posters were entered in this year’s competition, and winners were announced during OU-HCOM’s 10th Annual Research Day, held Friday Sept. 23,.
            “These are really exciting times for OU-HCOM,” said Jack Blayzk, Ph.D., associate dean for research, who gave the keynote address in the atrium of the ARC.
            The new resources to be made possible with the recent Osteopathic Heritage Foundations $105 million gift, Research Day showcases just the beginning of even more research efforts the college will undertake, he said.
            “The sky is the limit,” Blayzk said. “OU-HCOM is poised to be a premiere institution for education and research. This event is an indication of just what the future holds”
            This year’s event featured 59 poster presentations from faculty and students.
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Medical students: Apply for the Sybert Orthopaedic Medicine Research Award
            Applications are being accepted for the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute’s (OMNI) Sybert Scholar Orthopaedic Medicine Research Award.
            This is the third year for the award, which is made possible by the generosity of alumnus Daryl Sybert, D.O. (’86)
            This award is to provide selected OU-HCOM medical students with funding to pursue basic science and clinical research and scholarly activities. Student recipients of the award pursue independent research under faculty direction on projects that have the potential to make a significant contribution into the field of orthopaedics. 
            The award can be up to $5,000 to assist students with direct research costs, publication and professional travel expenses. All OU-HCOM students and fellows are eligible to apply. Applications are due by Tuesday, Nov. 1.
            Contact Brian Clark, Ph.D., at clarkb2@ohio.edu for information on how to submit a proposal.
 
Staff changes
  • Effective Monday, Sept. 19, Jill Harman, M.ED, assumed duties as director of admissions. She can be reached in Grosvenor hall 102A, 593-2147. Her e-mail address remains harmonj@ohio.edu.
  • Effective Monday, Oct. 3, please welcome Marlene De La Cruz-Guzman, learning services specialist, in the Office of Student Affairs. She can be reached in Grosvenor Hall 030E or 593-0585.
  • Effective Aug. 18, 2011, please note the title change for Sheila Bycofski to administrative associate.  Sheila is in the Office of Communication.
 
 
Please check your e-mail signature
            If you’ve recently updated your email signature to use the new university style, and if it wasn’t set up correctly, your email signature may be showing as an attachment rather than a real signature, confusing the recipient as the paperclip symbol appears on the message.
            Please follow these instructions to make sure that your email signature is set up correctly (instructions may be a bit different for different versions of Outlook):
  • Go to this link: http://www.ohio.edu/brand/look/signatures.cfm.
  • Select and copy the email signature format you prefer (there's a short and long version) INCLUDING THE LOGO.
  • Go to your email program and open a new email message window.
  • Under the “draft” drop down menu go to “Signature > Edit Signatures.”
  • In the signatures window that appears, check the standard box on the left and click the cursor in the area on the right. (If the standard box is already checked, select it and then select and delete everything that appears in the area on the right.)
  • When your cursor appears in the area on the right, paste what you selected from OU web site. You should see the logo and the text exactly as they appeared on the web site.
  • Customize the text with your contact information and our college information.
  • Close the window.
  • Your outgoing emails should now arrive without an attachment symbol.
 
Call for abstracts for 2nd Annual Regional Osteopathic Poster Exhibition and Competition
           Abstracts are being accepting for the 2nd Annual Regional Osteopathic Poster Exhibition and Competition, sponsored by OU-HCOM, the CORE, and the OOA. Abstracts will be accepted from students, interns/residents, faculty, medical administrators and practicing physicians from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania for the competition, which will be held Saturday, April 21 at the Columbus Hilton at Easton Town Center as part of the annual Ohio Osteopathic Symposium.
            The competition will feature three categories: clinical/biomedical research, case reports, and health policy/educational issues, the latter of which is restricted to faculty and administrators.
            Students, interns and residents only are eligible for a $1,000 first prize and a $500 second prize in the clinical/biomedical research and case reports categories. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and are due by Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012.
            For information, contact Karen Collins, CORE research grant writer/editor at 740-593-2322 or collink3@ohio.edu.
 
 
CALENDAR
Science Café series features OU-HCOM faculty member
            Erin Murphy, Ph.D., assistant professor of medical microbiology, will present “Bacteria: The Good, The Bad and the Resistant,” at the second installment of Ohio University’s Science Café at the Frontier Room in Baker University Center.
  • Event:  Wednesday, Sept. 28, 5 p.m., Frontier Room, Baker University Center
 
Professionalism Series upcoming dates
“Top Ten with State Medical Board,” presentation by Dave Buchan
  • Event: Thursday, Oct. 20, noon, I-199. FOOD SERVED.
 
OOA Student Study Break
  • Event: Saturday, Oct. 22, 5 to 7 p.m., Ohio University Inn. Professional dress required.
 
“How to create a professional portfolio,” presentation by Steve Davis, Ph.D., director of faculty development.
  • Event: Tuesday, Nov. 29, noon, I-199. FOOD SERVED.
 
Student organizations this week at OU-HCOM
Monday – Sept. 26
·  Class of 2014, noon, I-199, Board Review presentation by Kaplan representative Quentin Smith FOOD SERVED.
·  OB/GYN – Brief meeting, 5 p.m., G-113, Review upcoming events, collect dues and answer questions FOOD SERVED.
Tuesday – Sept. 27
·  Complementary & Alternative Medicine Club – Nutrition, noon, G-113, Speaker Stephanie Harshman.
·  SOIMA, 5 p.m., G-113, general meeting. FOOD SERVED.
Wednesday – Sept. 28
·  Research, noon, I-119,
·  SOMA, 5 p.m., I-194, general body meeting. FOOD SERVED
Thursday – Sept. 29
·  AMSA – Malnutrition, noon, I-128F, Global Health 101 session on malnutrition.
Friday – Sept. 30
  • AMA – State Representative Terry Johnson, noon, I-194, Terry Johnson, D.O. (’91), assistant dean at the CORE Southern Ohio Medical Center site will present FOOD SERVED.
 
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit:  The First Word
Purpose: To activate students' prior knowledge of a concept, idea, or skill
Description: The First Word is a variation on traditional acronyms.  By going through the process of analyzing words and creating related sentences, students will gain a deeper understanding of the meaning.
Procedure:
1.     Assign students the name of an object, a topic, or key concept to write vertically down the side of a page.
2.     Working in small groups or on their own, students should generate a short phrase or sentence that begins with each letter of the vertical work and offers important information or key characteristics about the topic.
3.     Students can illustrate their "First Words" for posting around the classroom.  Sharing "First Words" will allow students to identify important concepts that may have been left out of their own work.
Sample First Word:
Sun is the star at the center of the solar system
Orbits are the paths that planets take around the Sun
Lunar eclipses occur when the Moon gets blocked by the Earth
Asteroids are big rocks that orbit the Sun
Rings-- the planet Saturn has them
 
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun
You can see some planets with your naked eye
Some other planets are:  Earth, Venue, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune
The Earth is the only planet with life on it
Every year, the Earth orbits the Sun once
Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun
Lipton, L., & Wellman, B. (1999).  Patterns and practices in the learning-focused classroom.  Guilford, Vermont:  Pathways Publishing.
 
 
 
NOTE FROM STEVE:  Acronyms help seal the deal of transfer from short to long term memory…it can be even more fun to let them come up with their own. 
 
Find more tips at your OU-HCOM and CORE faculty development web resources pages:  www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm or www.ohiocore.org/cf/index.htm. If you have a great strategy, 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 and announcements by Wednesday at 3 p.m. for consideration in the following ROUNDS. If you have questions, suggestions or corrections, contact Richard Heck, writer/editor, at 740.593.0896 or heckr@ohio.edu.