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NEWS
Convocation welcome Class of 2013, honors Phillips awardees The 120 members of the Class of 2013 enter their medical education at a crucial time for both the State of Ohio and the nation, said Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric Fingerhut.
Fingerhut delivered the keynote address at OU-COM’s 34th Convocation Ceremony held Saturday at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. He also received a Phillips Medal of Public Service, the highest award bestowed by the college. The award also was given to David P. Blom, president and chief executive officer of Columbus-based OhioHealth.

* For more, see the full story, to be posted soon on the OU-COM home page.

Visiting alumni counsel students
On Friday, a panel of alumni met with the Class of 2013. Panelists included Jeffrey A. Stanley, D.O. (’82), president of the Society of Alumni and Friends Board of Directors, and Christopher J. Loyke, D.O. (’88), who earlier this summer became the new president of the Ohio Osteopathic Association (OOA)—both of whom participated in Saturday’s Convocation. They were joined by past OOA President Barbara A. Bennett, D.O. (’84), and Sharon E. Van Nostran, D.O. (’98), director of medical education at Akron City Hospital. The panelists discussed osteopathic medicine and education and answered students’ questions.

* For more, see the full story, to be posted soon on the OU-COM home page.

Burnett featured on university site
Patricia Burnett, Ph.D., director of the office of student affairs, is one of 18 Ohio University faculty and staff members featured in a new web site showcasing stories of those who were the first in their families to graduate from a four-year institution.
Developed by Greg Lester, assistant director of the College Adjustment Program in the Academic Advancement center, the narratives are designed to provide mentoring opportunities for students and raise awareness of the number of first-generation employees on campus.

* To read her story, go to www.ohio.edu/univcollege/firstgeneration/upload/Pat-Burnett-Narrative-2.pdf
Recent graduate follows own advice
Kristin Bodkin, D.O. (’09), was known to her OU-COM classmates as “the fruit girl.” Not because she’s nuts, but because, during long hours of medical lectures and study sessions, she brought in fruit to sell to her hungry classmates.
“We would sit through these all-day lectures,” Bodkin says, “and you would see your classmates going out and getting junk food from vending machines, because it was the only snack option. So, I started bringing in apples and bananas, charged fifty cents apiece, and it just caught on.”
This proactive commitment to health distinguished Bodkin from many of her peers. While her classmates often lapsed into rounds of late-night lattes and chocolate binges, Bodkin peddled fruit and ran marathons.

* To read the full story, go to www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/stories/Bodkin/index.htm


ANNOUNCEMENTS
Student named to BIOMEA position
Nora Burns, OMS III, was appointed to the student position on the Bureau on International Osteopathic Medical Education and Affairs (BIOMEA), which focuses on expanding global health education at Osteopathic Medical colleges.
“I am very excited about the position and look forward to bringing the student voice to BIOMEA,” Burns said.
Burns can be contacted at 216.244.0057 or n.k.burns@gmail.com

Call for Research Day posters
The 8th annual OU-COM Research Day, to take place Friday, Sept. 18, is calling for posters, announced Jessica Wingett, accounting specialist with research and grants.
The deadline to submit project titles, abstracts and electronic versions of posters for production is no later than Tuesday, Sept. 1. Student poster judging will be held on Thursday, Sept. 17.
Recipients of either OU-COM or RSAC funds during the last year are required to participate.
Research Day procedures:

* Please send the title, author list (with affiliations), abstract and posters, via email, to researchday@oucom.ohiou.edu.
* Insert the title, author list and abstract as a Microsoft Word document. For the abstract, please use 12-point, New Times Roman font. Abstracts are limited to 500 words.
* Insert the poster as a separate attachment. PLEASE title your poster attachment with your last name, first name and RD Poster 09. (ex. Wingett, Jessica-RDPoster09)
* Poster templates can be downloaded from either of these sites:
* www.oucom.ohiou.edu/r&g/StudentResouces2009.htm
* www.oucom.ohiou.edu/r&g/FacStaffResources2009.htm
* For more information, contact Wingett at wingettj@ohio.edu or 593.2336.


CALENDAR

Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Seminar

Mindy Cayton from the Area Agency on Aging will present “Strengthening the continuum of care in our community.”

· Event: TODAY, Aug. 17, noon to 1 p.m., O’Bleness Memorial Hospital 014 and Grosvenor West 029 via videoconference



Multicultural program

Mark P. Orbe, Ph.D., will present, “Professional development in cultural

competency. Part I: Introducing key communication concepts.”

· Program: Friday, Aug. 28, Irvine 194, 1:30-5 p.m.



Research Day

* Event: Friday, Sept. 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Irvine Hall bricks
* Poster submission deadline: Tuesday, Sept. 1
* For more information, contact Jessica Wingett at wingettj@ohio.edu or 593.2336.




PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Metaphors for the working memory The popular “pipeline” metaphor assumes the receiver gets what you send out. As much as we might want to believe that an unobstructed pipeline exists between sender and receiver, the limits of working memory put a major crimp in the process.
A more apt metaphor would be “the eye of the needle.” While both sensory and long-term memory are nearly limitless, short-term memory, a filtering choke point between the two, is more restricted.
Research shows that, in terms of short-term memory, less is more. In a study using two multimedia presentations, the first featured interesting but irrelevant graphics, and the second provided the same information, but without the graphics.
Audiences who got the second presentation retained 69 percent more information and were able to apply 105 percent more creative solutions using the information that those who experienced the first presentation.
Don’t overload your presentation with extraneous information. People learn better when information is broken up into digestible pieces—like slides, each containing one main idea clearly summarized by a headline.
Source: “Beyond PowerPoints” by Cliff Atkinson, p.30-37 summarized.

Find more “Teaching 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 mailto:daviss@oucom.ohiou.edu?subject=Faculty Development Tip for you! 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.)

Steinbergh becomes assistant dean at Mt. Carmel Please welcome Anita Steinbergh, D.O., CORE assistant dean for Mt. Carmel West Medical Center. Dr. Steinbergh can be reached at 614.234.5577.


OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Athens Messenger (8-17-09)
“Chancellor greets incoming medical students”
www.athensmessenger.com/articles/2009/08/17/news/doc4a89539c52c77865229664.txt<http://www.athensmessenger.com/articles/2009/08/17/news/doc4a89539c52c77865229664.txt>

WOUB (8-17-09)
“Medical students come at crucial time for nation”
www.publicbroadcasting.net/woub/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1543269/WOUB.Local.News/Medical.students.come.at.crucial.time.for.nation<http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/woub/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1543269/WOUB.Local.News/Medical.students.come.at.crucial.time.for.nation>

WOUB 08-14-09)
Newswatch guest: Dean Jack Brose, D.O.
(Dr. Brose discussed the 34th Convocation White Coat Ceremony and the Class of 2013.)

The Athens News (08-13-09)
“Biggest class ever entering OU med school”
www.athensnews.com/news/campus-news/28749-biggest-class-ever-entering-ou-med-school

WOUB Newswatch (08-12-09)
Newswatch guest: Rathinda Bose, Ph.D., professor of biomedical sciences (Dr. Bose, also V.P. for research and creative activity and Graduate College dean, discussed the university’s Technology Gap Fund, funded in part by royalties from for the acromegaly drug Somavert®, discovered by John Kopchick, Ph.D., Goll-Ohio Eminent Scholar and professor of molecular biology.)

Columbus Dispatch (08-12-09)
“OU medical school bursting at seams”
blog.dispatch.com/edblog/2009/08/ou_medical_school_bursting_at_seams.shtml#more<http://blog.dispatch.com/edblog/2009/08/ou_medical_school_bursting_at_seams.shtml#more>

Athens Messenger (08-11-09)
“Medical college set to welcome its largest class”
www.athensmessenger.com/articles/2009/08/13/news/doc4a81639f968e2330630192.txt<http://www.athensmessenger.com/articles/2009/08/13/news/doc4a81639f968e2330630192.txt>


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