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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.

 

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NEWS

OU-COM celebrates American Heart Month

This Friday, celebrate American Heart Month by wearing red and taking advantage of OU-COM’s Heart Health Fair, where all college personnel and students with appointments can receive free heart health screenings.

To schedule your screenings, contact Jane Crace at 3-2432. Appointments are required.

Available screenings include cholesterol, glucose and blood pressure. Total cholesterol and glucose can be non-fasting, while a nine- to 12-hour fast is required for a cholesterol panel (HDL, LDL, and triglyceride).

While this service is free, donations will be accepted and distributed to the American Heart Association in honor of Go Red for Women, a national movement to raise awareness about heart disease among women.

This health fair is sponsored by Community Health Programs and the Appalachian Rural Health Institute.

 

Dr. Mehlman on pediatric orthopedic surgery

In case you missed our recent guest, Charles T. Mehlman, D.O. (’89), check out this story on his recent Career Medical Specialties lecture, about the rewards of pediatric orthopedic surgery: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/Mehlman/index.htm.

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

[URGENT] Student Government Association elections

Students interested in one of the remaining SGA offices for the Class of 2012 must return platform/petition forms TODAY to the Office of Student Affairs.

Positions to be filled include:

·        President

·        Vice-president PCC

·        Vice-president CPC

·        Secretary/treasurer

·        Undergraduate Student Senate representative

 

SOUPer Bowl Lunch rescheduled

Due to last week’s inclement weather and university closing, the SOUPer Bowl Lunch has been rescheduled to this week. Contact Mike Yeager to re-register.

 

2009 OOA Convention poster exhibition seeks abstracts

The Ohio Osteopathic Association and the CORE announce a call for abstracts for the 2009 Research Poster Exhibition and Competition, to be held June 20 at the 111th OOA Convention. Deadline for abstracts is March 20.

The poster exhibition is open to all convention participants. Exhibition posters can present clinical/biomedical research, case reports and health policy or educational issues.

The poster competition will be restricted to student, intern and resident projects; these will be restricted to clinical and/or biomedical research and case reports.

 

 

CALENDAR

Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Series

“Engaging in recreation and leisure services” by Beth VanDerveer, Ph.D., assistant dean for student services and associate professor of recreation and sports sciences.

 

Educational Day – Family Practice

Duke Starr, D.O. (’95), CORE assistant dean, presents “OMM Board Review at the next Family Practice RPAC Education Day.”

 

Multicultural Extravaganza

Mark your calendar for this year’s Multicultural Extravaganza, which features student performances, food, singing, dancing, poetry and a traditional clothing fashion show.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Faculty Development Tidbit: Constructivism

Constructivism, a psychological theory of learning that emphasizes personal experience and prior knowledge, has four important implications for teaching. 

  1. The teacher is viewed not as a transmitter of knowledge but as a guide who facilitates learning. 
  2. As learning is based on prior knowledge, teachers should provide learning experiences that expose inconsistencies between students’ current understandings and their new experiences.
  3. Teachers must actively engage students, using relevant problems and group interaction. 
  4. If new knowledge is to be actively acquired, sufficient time must be provided for in-depth examination of new experiences.

Source: Clinical review: ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Applying educational theory in practice, by David M Kaufman: www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/326/7382/213.

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 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.)

 

Faculty appointments, retirement

Frank Schwartz, M.D., has been named the J.O. Watson Endowed Research Chair. The chair, funded by the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation, provides the cornerstone for a concentrated focus on diabetes and cardiovascular research at OU-COM. It honors James O. Watson, D.O., co-founder of Doctors Hospital in Columbus.

 

Edwin Rowland, D.O., chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, early retired on December 31, and will be returning to teach spring quarter.

Audrone Biknevicius, Ph.D., has been appointed as the new department chair for biomedical sciences and Peter Coschigano, Ph.D., has been appointed associate chair. 

 

 

OU-COM IN THE NEWS

The Athens News (2-2-09)

“OU-COM glaucoma screenings help prevent blindness”

(Appears in the “Good Health” section of the print edition. You can also read the story on the OU-COM news page: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/Glaucoma/index.htm.)

 

 

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 3-2199 or martina@oucom.ohiou.edu.