Winter 2006 Quarterly Preceptor Communiqué

Greetings Preceptor,

Our quarterly Preceptor Communiqué is one way to provide a touchstone between us. Please feel free to communicate with us about its usefulness and any topics you would like information on or about.

Winter 2006 Features:

- NOTE from the Dean, Dr. Jack Brose, D.O.

- January 2006 "Teaching Professor;" contents and attached document

- Faculty development note and contact information

- OUCOM/CORE Clinical and Community Experiences – Plans for Spring 2006

NOTE FROM OUCOM/CORE DEAN: Dr. Jack Brose, D.O.
As we begin a new calendar year I’m reminded of your essential and valuable contribution as part of our OUCOM/CORE educational team. Please know I appreciate your service relish our continuing relationship. I want to encourage you to take advantage of our resources and let us know if there is something we can do to assist you.

THIS QUARTER'S "The Teaching Physician" (January 2006, Volume 5, Issue 1) CONTENTS:
- POEMs for the Teaching Physician:

-- Antibiotics With Atypical Bacteria Coverage Unnecessary

-- Digital Mammography More Sensitive for Younger Women

-- Silver Nitrate Relieves Pain of Aphthous Stomatitis

- Information Technology and Teaching in the Office: How to Choose Your Newest PDA

- Clinical Guidelines That Can Improve Your Care: A Review of Contraception

- Teaching Points—A 2-minute Mini-lecture: Teaching About Medical Mistakes

- Excerpted from “For the Office-based Teacher of Family Medicine”: Evidence-based Strategies That Help Office-based Teachers Give Effective Feedback

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NOTE & CONTACT INFORMATION:

New on our Faculty Development (http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd ) site this month:

- Preceptor CME information: Preceptor CME

- Group IV Faculty APPOINTMENTS AND PRIVILEGES Brochure (includes information on obtaining an OU ID card): APPOINTMENTS AND PRIVILEGES Brochure – Please apply if you’re not a card carrier.

- Faculty Development Power Point Presentations:

o How Can My Program Exceed the Minimum Standards: The Value of ICCP and Program Internal Review

o Strategic Planning: How Do I Make My Program Grow?

o Dedicated Research Time

o The Grant Writing Process

o Dealing with a Problem Trainee

o Balancing Patient Care and Teaching

o Adult Learning Principles: How will adults learn and retain the most on my clinical teaching service?

OU-COM CLINICAL AND COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES – PLANS FOR SPRING 2006

Greetings from Sarah,

Spring is typically a slower time of year for CCE, as our 2^nd year medical students are given the option of participating in CCE’s while they prepare for their board exams and most choose to hit the books.

Please be on the lookout for a letter from us in June that includes your feedback for the year; this year we also intend to provide physician offices with a brochure they can use to help educate patients about having students in the office. Non-physician preceptors, do you have any suggestions for ways we might demonstrate our thanks?

As always, please let me know how things are going.

Sincerely,

Sarah McGrew, BSN, Coordinator

Clinical and Community Experiences

OU-COM

311 Grosvenor Hall

Athens, OH 45701

(740) 593-2518

mcgrew@ohio.edu

Happy New Year and Best Regards! ssd

Stephen “Steve” Davis, Ph.D.

Director, Faculty Development

Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Academic Affairs, Grosvenor Hall 218

Athens, Ohio 45701-2979

740-593-2190, fax 9557, daviss2@ohio.edu