Welcome to ROUNDS!
This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
The ROUNDS archive is here.
NEWS
Staff, faculty honored for excellence
Congratulations to the 2008 OU-COM Award of Excellence winners! This year’s awardees, as recognized at the Oct. 1 State of the College address, include:
(In case you missed it, a summary of the address by Dean Jack Brose, D.O., will be posted next week on the OU-COM website and linked to ROUNDS.)
Primary Care Week
In observance of Primary Care Week – today through Friday – we recognize our past success in graduating primary care physicians (“Good work!”) and reaffirm our commitment to training students of osteopathic medicine with a strong foundation in primary care medicine.
Fifty-four percent of OU-COM graduates practice in primary care — the highest percentage of any medical school in Ohio — and 62 percent of its graduates practice in Ohio, with 36 percent in communities of less than 50,000.
Primary Care Week was established to bring attention to the shortage of primary care physicians, and to encourage health professions students to consider entering the fields of primary care.
· Today through Fri., Oct. 10
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Riley Osteopathic Medical Scholarship awarded
Congratulations to LaQuita Jones, OMS I, recipient of OU-COM’s newly endowed Georgenna Riley, D.O. (’95), Osteopathic Medical Scholarship. The scholarship is for underrepresented minority students who reflect leadership skills and/or research activities.
Riley hopes the scholarship will inspire others to pay forward to future generations. She describes recipients as students “who got into medicine because they really want to help people.”
Diabetes/Endocrine Center receives recognition
The ARHI Diabetes/Endocrine Center Education Program received a certificate of recognition for meeting the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education from the American Diabetes Association.
CALENDAR
“Ethnic Disparities: A call to Conscience”
Join us for a Hispanic Heritage Month lecture by Timothy J. Barreiro, D.O. (’97), FACOI, FCCP, a pulmonary medicine physician in Youngstown, Ohio and a National Institute of Health Minority Scholar
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Every brain is wired differently.
· What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like – it literally rewires it.
· The various regions of the brain develop at different rates in different people.
· No two people’s brains store the same information in the same place.
· We have a great number of ways of being intelligent, many of which don’t show up on IQ tests.
· Summary of Rule #3 from “brain rules” by John Medina (www.brainrules.net)
You can find more “Teaching Tips” at your faculty development Web resource site (www.oucom.ohiou.edu/fd/programs.htm) and the CORE faculty development Web site (http://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.
(Faculty Development Tidbits courtesy of Steve Davis, Ph.D., USAF Major (Ret), director of faculty development, and CORE faculty development coordinators Robbin Kirkland, Ph.D., and Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D.)
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Athens News (10-6-08)
“Free services offer hope for beating breast cancer”
The Athens News (10-6-08)
“Conference focuses on better health care using technology”
The Post (10-3-08)
“OU awaits plan for health center”
http://www.thepost.ohiou.edu/Articles/News/2008/10/03/25697/
OUTLOOK (10-3-08)
“Able and willing: Nick Pfleghaar assists disabled campers”
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/October/90.cfm
Bio-Medicine (9-25-08)
“Women recover muscle strength more slowly than men”
Women’s Health Matters (9-25-08)
“Women recover slower from fractures than men do”
http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/news/news_show.cfm?number=988175950
Please send your news/announcements to rounds@oucom.ohiou.edu each week by Wednesday, 3 p.m. for consideration in the following week’s ROUNDS. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Anita Martin, assistant director of communication, at 593-2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.