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This weekly e-newsletter goes out to all OU-COM and CORE personnel and students.
The ROUNDS archive is here.
NEWS
UMA signs management agreement
OhioHealth and University Medical Associates (UMA) signed an executive management services agreement, creating a new partnership to benefit residents of Southeastern Ohio.
Steve Swart, president of OhioHealth’s Doctors Hospital of Nelsonville, will now serve also as chief executive director of UMA, OU-COM’s faculty practice.
Patients of UMA now will have enhanced access to advanced health care technologies, physicians and services of OhioHealth’s Riverside Methodist, Doctors and Grant Hospitals, Swart said.
Swart, whose office is in Grosvenor Hall 205, can be reached at 593-1355 or swarts1@ohio.edu.
ROUNDS delayed next week
Due to the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday next Monday, ROUNDS will be delayed one day to Tuesday, Jan. 20. Have a great three-day weekend!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nominations sought for outstanding student awards
Nominations for this year’s senior awards are now being accepted by Molly deLaval, administrative associate for student affairs, via e-mail. CORE assistant deans and administrators, as well as OU-COM administrators and clinical faculty, are eligible to nominate 2009 graduates for recognition during Commencement on June 6. Nominations also include CORE site outstanding student awards.
[URGENT] Student Government Association elections
Elections for Student Government Association positions for the 2009-2010 academic year are scheduled for Monday, Jan. 19. Students interested in seeking one of the seven positions must return platform/petition forms to the Office of Student Affairs by today, Jan. 12. Platform/petition forms are available in the Student Affairs office.
Positions to be filled include:
· President
· Vice-president PCC
· Vice-president CPC
· Secretary
· Treasurer
· Undergraduate Student Senate representative
· Graduate Student Senate representative.
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
Tropical Disease Institute in Ecuador
OU-COM students who traveled to Ecuador this past summer will talk about their experiences in research, hiking, searching for bugs, equatorial OMM, making friends and more.
Business of Medicine
Want to know what to look for when accepting a job? At the next Business of Medicine luncheon presentation, Craig Dues, D.O. (’00), will speak about medical contracts: salary, pay-for-performance or independent contracting.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty Development Tidbit – Adult Learning Theory
Malcolm Knowles introduced the term “andragogy” to North America, defining it as “the art and science of helping adults learn.”
Most theorists agree that andragogy is not really a theory of adult learning, but they regard Knowles’ principles as guidelines on how to teach independent and self-directed learners.
His principles can be summarized as follows:
· Establish an effective learning climate, where learners feel safe and comfortable expressing themselves.
· Involve learners in mutual planning of relevant methods and curricular content.
· Involve learners in diagnosing their own needs. This will help to trigger internal motivation.
· Encourage learners to formulate their own learning objectives. This gives them more control of their learning.
· Encourage learners to indentify resources and devise strategies for using the resources to achieve their objectives.
· Support learners in carrying out their learning plans.
· Involve learners in evaluating their own learning. This can develop their skills of critical reflection.
Find more “Teaching Tips” at your OUCOM & 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.)
OU-COM IN THE NEWS
The Athens News (1-12-09)
“Doctors Hospital Corp. OU-COM group sign pact creating partnership”
www.athensnews.com/news/local/2009/jan/12/two-major-local-medical-entities-join-forces/
Outlook (1-9-09)
“University Medical Associates partners with OhioHealth”
www.oucom.ohiou.edu/News/press/UMA09/
The Athens Messenger (1-08-09)
“UMA now governed by same organization as Nelsonville hospital”
www.athensmessenger.com/articles/2009/01/09/news/doc4965fcc6adcf4582188965.txt
(The Messenger requires registration and a password to view articles on its website)
The Athens News (1-05-09)
“OU Medical school’s outreach program could be impacted by state cuts”
www.athensnews.com/special/goodhealth/2009/jan/05/ou-medical-schools-outreach-program-could-be-impac/
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.