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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
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NEWS
University receives community engagement grant
Ohio University is one of six institutions nationwide to receive a two-year, $15,000 grant from the Faculty for the Engaged Campus (FEC), a national initiative of community-campus partnerships. The grant will support faculty development programming that advances community-engaged scholarship.
Jane Hamel-Lambert, Ph.D., director of multidisciplinary mental health education, is the grant’s principle investigator among three other Ohio co-investigators.
Hamel-Lambert is also OU’s first faculty fellow for campus-community engagement; president of Integrating Professionals for Appalachian Children, a network of mental health professionals dedicated to better serving regional children; and associate director of the Appalachian Rural Health Institute.
For more on the FEC grant, read the full story: http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/stories/Hamel_Lambert/index.htm.
Class of 2012 officers selected
Lauren Fuller, OMS-I, was elected president of the Class of 2012 during last week’s election. Other officers include Lesley Remos, OMS-I, vice-president for CPC; Dominique Crosby, OMS-I, vice president for PCC; and Julie Bellissimo, OMS-I, secretary/treasurer. Delegates chosen for the Student Government Association are Ryan Eschbaugh, OMS-I, CPC; and Poorvi Dalal, OMS-I, PCC.
The changing face of health care
In case you missed last month’s visitor, Fred DeGrandis, president and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals, check out the event coverage at: www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/DeGrandis/index.htm.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
International Research Symposium seeking participants
OU’s International Student Union and the Student Activities Commission will sponsor an International Research Symposium on Friday, Feb. 27.
The symposium is open to any OU student conducting research on an international related topic. Research must be presented in poster format.
For information or an application, check the documents section of the International Student Union website at www.ohiou.edu/~isu.
Internship available
The application deadline for the 2010 Osteopathic Health Policy Intern (OHPI) Program in Washington, D.C., is March 1. Check out the following web site for program and application information:
www.aacom.org/events/intern/Pages/default.aspx.
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 at the 111th OOA Convention. Deadline for abstracts is Friday, 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
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.
Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology Series
“Tensions across multiple contexts: Type 2 diabetes management in older, rural families,” by Margaret Manoogian, Ph.D.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit: Reflective Practice
The theory of reflective practice is attributed primarily to philosopher Donald Schon, who studied industry and professional issues. He argues that formal professional theory is often not applicable to the “messy, indeterminate” problems of real-life.
Schon notes that unexpected events trigger two kinds of reflection:
1. Reflection in action, which occurs immediately, is the ability to apply past experiences and reasoning to unfamiliar events while they are occurring.
2. Reflection on action, which occurs later, is the process of assessing a past situation: what occurred, whether the response was appropriate and how this situation may affect future practice.
Through the process of reflecting both “in action” and “on action,” professionals continually reshape their approaches and develop “wisdom” or “artistry” in their practice. Activities such as debriefing with peers or learners, seeking feedback from learners on a regular basis and keeping a journal can assist reflective practice.
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.)
Videoconference tactics workshop
Olivia Ojano-Sheehan, Ph.D., assistant director of faculty development, and Deborah Meyer, Ph.D., administrator and assistant professor for the Department of Geriatric Medicine/Gerontology, will conduct a 90-minute training session on adapting face-to-face presentations for videoconferences. The session is limited to 12 participants.
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Athens Messenger (2-9-09)
“Ohio Benefit Bank offers services”
(Story can be found on page three of the print edition.)
Newark Advocate (2-7-09)
“Rehab center names director”
www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090207/NEWS01/902070373
(John Robertson, D.O. (’01), named director of the Rehab Center at Flint Ridge Village in Newark, NJ.)
Outlook (2-5-09)
Proposed state budget shores up education
Reducing costs still essential under current economy
www.ohio.edu/outlook/08-09/February/333.cfm
Columbus Dispatch (2-3-09)
“Up to his elbows in emus (and rhinos, hippos and moose. OU researcher peeks inside modern animals to help solve dinosaur mysteries”
(Larry Witmer, Ph.D., professor of biomedical sciences, and his work is featured in a page and a half article)
Columbus Dispatch (2-3-09)
“Governor’s plan recasts state funds for private colleges”
www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/02/03/HIGHER_ED.html?sid=101
(OU-COM is referenced in the sixth paragraph from the end.)
Athens News (2-2-09)
“OU-COM glaucoma screenings help prevent blindness”
http://www.athensnews.com/special/goodhealth/2009/feb/02/ou-com-glaucoma-screenings-help-prevent-blindness/
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.